{"id":108377,"date":"2025-01-03T18:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/winter-storm-to-bring-heavy-snow-ice-freezing-temps-to-millions\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:03:39","slug":"winter-storm-to-bring-heavy-snow-ice-freezing-temps-to-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/winter-storm-to-bring-heavy-snow-ice-freezing-temps-to-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter storm to bring heavy snow, ice, freezing temps to millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-03\/N_winterweatheralert_010325.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; <span class=\"s1\">As a deep\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1 s2\">winter chill<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0begins to take over the northern half of the country, a new major winter storm will move across the U.S. this weekend into early next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The storm kicks off on Saturday as a mix of rain, snow and ice develops over the central Plains. The Kansas City, Missouri, area will likely see dangerously slick travel on Saturday evening as a wintry mix moves in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The storm then follows Interstate 70 to St. Louis, where heavy snow and ice may strike from Saturday night through Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Sunday, a number of cities from the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic could be facing hazardous travel as the ice and snow moves east.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, in the South, thunderstorms with damaging winds and scattered tornadoes are possible from Houston to Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Sunday night, snow could move into Washington, D.C., causing a dangerous Monday morning commute across much of the mid-Atlantic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Baltimore and Philadelphia have the potential to see 6 inches or more of snow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After the storm moves offshore, bitter cold air will move in behind it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1 s2\">portion of the polar vortex<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0will likely trigger temperatures 10 to 25 degrees below normal for the eastern half of the U.S. by the middle of next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The wind chill &#8212; what temperature it feels like &#8212; could plunge below zero from the Midwest to the Northeast, and sub-freezing temperatures are forecast as far south as Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News (NEW YORK) &#8212; As a deep\u00a0winter chill\u00a0begins to take over the northern half of the country, a new major winter storm will move across the U.S. this weekend into early next week. The storm kicks off on Saturday as a mix of rain, snow and ice develops over<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/winter-storm-to-bring-heavy-snow-ice-freezing-temps-to-millions\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}