Updated January 05, 2025 at 19:40 PM ET
Millions across the U.S. are facing weather warnings and watches as a major winter storm moves from the Central Plains into the mid-Atlantic, where parts of the Washington, D.C., area could receive up to a foot of snow through Tuesday morning.
Heavy snowfall and wind gusts more than 40 miles per hour will lead to blizzard conditions across parts of Missouri and Kansas, according to the National Weather Service .
“The snow will significantly reduce visibilities, and snowfall amounts will surpass 15 inches (the heaviest in a decade), which will make travel extremely hazardous, with impassable roads,” the NWS says. “Additionally, a band of 8-14 inches of snow is expected to extend from northeast Missouri through the Central Appalachians, with a few inches of sleet likely in southern Illinois and Indiana.”
The storm will also bring a quarter to a half inch of freezing rain over states in the middle Mississippi/Ohio Valley region such as Illinois, Indiana and Missouri.