UNITED STATES — A powerful Arctic air mass is surging into the Northeast this weekend, setting up a fast-moving but potentially dangerous winter weather event across Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, where snow squalls, narrow heavy bands, and extreme cold will combine to create hazardous travel conditions from Friday night into Saturday. Forecast data shows…
NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI — More than two weeks after Winter Storm Fern delivered a historic ice storm across the region, thousands of residents in northern Mississippi are still without electricity, highlighting how long recovery can take when ice loads reach the destructive range. Data shown on a long-duration outage map indicates about 16,000 customers were still…
UNITED STATES — A brutal shot of Arctic air is charging into New England this weekend, setting the stage for some of the coldest “feels-like” temperatures of the season across Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Forecast apparent temperature (wind chill) maps show conditions deteriorating quickly late Saturday into early Sunday, with…
UNITED STATES — A longer-range winter signal remains on the board for the Feb. 14–16 window across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, with ensemble pattern maps favoring a setup that could support another round of wintry precipitation. The key message right now is confidence in the pattern—not the exact storm track—meaning this is still a “watch…
UNITED STATES — A strengthening snow band is taking shape across the Midwest this morning, with radar showing heavier returns lining up from northern Indiana near Fort Wayne east-southeast into central Ohio toward Columbus. Forecasters tracking the band say it appears to be aligning well with last evening’s model guidance—and if the band holds together,…
UNITED STATES — A viral, long-range GFS 384-hour snowfall map is making the rounds because it shows an eye-popping snow “bullseye” centered over North Carolina and Virginia, with the model depicting widespread heavy totals across the Carolinas and into the Mid-Atlantic. The post itself jokes that it would take “metaphysics for the GFS to actually…
UNITED STATES — A first-call “crayon map” forecast is flagging a classic Norlun trough setup for Southern New England, warning that the heaviest snow may come down in narrow corridors that can shift east or west—but with growing confidence that eastern Massachusetts ends up on the favorable side of the band. What a “Norlun Trough”…
UNITED STATES — A new 00z GFS snowfall projection is highlighting just how tight the “margin of error” is for the next New England snow setup, placing the key trough axis about 20 miles east of most other guidance—a shift small enough to look trivial on a national map, but big enough to change who…
UNITED STATES — A new Public Impact Map for February 6–7, 2026 breaks the storm into three snowfall zones from the Mid-Atlantic into Southern New England, warning that a redeveloping low-pressure system south of Long Island could produce scattered evening snow, then a more organized, band-enhanced push overnight into Saturday, with totals ranging from a…
UNITED STATES — Lake Erie is now 96% ice-covered, and the latest Great Lakes ice analysis suggests the lake could reach 100% coverage within a few days—a threshold that, according to the note shared with the map, has not happened in 30 years. The new chart from the U.S. National Ice Center and USCG Great…