New winter storm warnings issued in Midwest
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Rare double winter storm to dump snow from the Rockies to the Great Lakes, while forecaster also warns of possible tornadoes
Image Credit: Max Velocity - Severe Weather Center
Parts of the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast are expecting winter storm impacts to begin as soon as Tuesday night.
A fast-moving clipper system is expected to bring additional snow to a region that is already well above its winter average.
About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest drivers of winter weather in the Great Lakes region are warming and trending northward.
A strong winter weather system has the potential to develop into a bomb cyclone off the East Coast later this weekend.
On a brisk January day with wind chills plunging to minus 25 degrees, Paul “Blade” Bloedorn stood out on nearly 2 feet of ice on Lake Michigan’s Little Bay de Noc. Last weekend, more than 400 shacks speckled the frozen bay, Bloedorn recalled, as ice ...