Snow Squalls May Impact New Year's Eve Travel from the Great Lakes to the Mid-Atlantic; Heavy Rain & Isolated Severe Thunderstorms in Southern California

Snow squalls are likely to cross the Lower Great Lakes this evening and the Ohio Valley through the interior Northeast/northern Mid-Atlantic overnight, before potentially reaching the I-95 corridor from D.C. to New York City early New Year’s Day morning. Heavy rain and isolated severe thunderstorms will impact coastal southern California including Los Angeles tonight into early on New Year's Day. Read More >

Winter 2021-2022 can be described as cool and snowy for most places. December was above normal temperature-wise with the mid-December “megastorm” bringing the warmest temperatures of the winter for Duluth and Ashland. With that warm weather, snowfall flatlined and became below average at Duluth and International Falls, but a pattern shift just after Christmas brought much colder and active weather that persisted through January and February. A cold northwesterly flow regime dominated with plenty of cold air outbreaks and light snow events from Alberta clipper systems. A few larger systems were sprinkled in as well, including several large lake-enhanced systems that brought impressive snowfall amounts to the South Shore. We also experienced a rare snow squall event on February 18, which started in our region and spread across the northeastern US.