Another brewing winter storm is forecast to dump heavy snow, ice and freezing rain from the South to the Mid-Atlantic this week, which could knock out power and close roads.
Days after a deadly storm pummeled the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions , a developing system is expected to move out of Mexico across the Gulf Coast late Thursday, to western Florida by Friday evening and hit the southern Mid-Atlantic coast by Saturday.
The incoming storm is predicted to bring 6 to 8 inches of snow from southeast Oklahoma through western North Carolina, the National Weather Service warned Thursday. Ice and freezing rain will hit the southern Plains and the Lower Mississippi Valley before heading towards parts of the Southeast, Southern Appalachians, and up to the Mid-Atlantic on Friday.
The Tennessee Valley could see some of the heaviest snowfall, with 6 inches expected on Friday. A wide swath of the country is under winter weather warnings and advisories and will see impacts including “widespread closures, treacherous travel, scattered power outages, and downed branches,” the weather service said.