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Major Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold in the North-Central U.S.

A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies/Plains into the Mid-South beginning Friday, spreading eastward to the Mid-Atlantic and New England this weekend. An Arctic front will bring frigid temperatures and gusty winds that will lead to dangerous wind chills from the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 11:22:20 am PST

⚠️A planned service outage will occur on January 22nd, which will impact some of our services for most of the day. Critical services, warnings, and forecasts will continue to be provided, but NOAA Weather Radio stations will be off air, radar data from KMUX will be unavailable, and interruptions to climate summaries and regional temperature and precipitation tables are possible. Have multiple ways to receive warnings; severe weather can disable communications systems. #CAwx

 

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