Powerful coast-to-coast storm kicks off December with major impacts from heavy snow to ice across the nation

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Closely pursuing a major wintertime tempest that unleashed question chaos during the engaged Thanksgiving vacation weekend, meteorological winter is acceptable to footwear disconnected this week with a almighty coast-to-coast tempest delivering a wide scope of impacts. 

The cross-country tempest starts Sunday successful the Rockies and tracks done Wednesday into the Northeast, apt posing threats of snow, crystal and rain to airports, roadways and communities on its path. 

December tempest  outlook map

December tempest outlook map

(FOX Weather)

Snow volition make crossed portions of the bluish Rockies and pivot south, bringing imaginable snowfall showers to Utah, Colorado and New Mexico earlier the tempest moves into the Plains.

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Monday: Storm gains spot arsenic it moves into the Plains

The tempest moves into the Plains, wherever Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit could spot adjacent much snowfall conscionable days aft the grounds Thanksgiving play snowstorm swept crossed the Midwest. 

  • People walking done  dense  snowfall  successful  Chicago connected  Saturday.

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    People walking done dense snowfall successful Chicago connected Saturday. (Robert Ray)

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    The Putnam County Sheriff's Office successful Indiana responded to 12 centrifugal conveyance crashes successful the span of 2 hours connected Saturday arsenic snowfall continues to autumn successful the Midwest. (Putnam County Sheriff's Office)

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    A multi-car heap up successful Grant County, Indiana connected I-69 resulted successful a impermanent roadworthy closure. (Grant County Sheriff's Office)

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    People shovel snowfall connected saturday greeting successful Des Moines, Iowa. (FOX Weather Storm Specialist Mike Seidel)

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    Several descent offs and crashes closed I-70 westbound betwixt the 13 and 15-mile markers, adjacent Terre Haute, Indiana  (Indiana Department of Transportation: West Central)

  • Photo shows a driveway and cars covered successful  snowfall  successful  O'Fallon, MO.

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    Photo shows a driveway and cars covered successful snowfall successful O'Fallon, MO.  (Rebecca Witte Smith/Facebook )

  • A snow-covered backmost  structure  successful  O'Fallon, MO during a large   wintertime  tempest  connected  Nov. 29, 2025.

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    A snow-covered backmost structure successful O'Fallon, MO during a large wintertime tempest connected Nov. 29, 2025.  (Rebecca Witte Smith/Facebook )

3-5 inches of snowfall could autumn from bluish Missouri into bluish Illinois.

Snow volition besides widen into the Ohio River Valley, expecting to spot snowfall accumulations of 1-3 inches.

Chicago snowfall  forecast done  Tuesday

Chicago snowfall forecast done Tuesday

(FOX Weather)

Ice poses a bigger interest for large interstates successful Arkansas and Oklahoma arsenic the acold arctic aerial lingers.  

Cities specified arsenic Tulsa, Little Rock and Fort Smith are successful the menace portion for patchy snowfall and imaginable crystal disruptions.

Major interstate impacts connected  Monday morning

Major interstate impacts connected Monday morning 

(FOX Weather)

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Tuesday done Wednesday: Mid-Atlantic to Northeast See Impacts 

The tempest volition instrumentality disconnected done the Northeast, bringing chiefly rainfall with a wintry premix to the Mid-Atlantic and New England.

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Threats of crystal are apt successful West Virginia and the Virginia mountains, arsenic perchance snowfall oregon rainfall volition interaction parts of the Northeast.

Snow forecast projection for the East

Snow forecast projection for the East

(FOX Weather)

Colder aerial is expected to bring snowfall inland of Maine and Pennsylvania. However, snowfall accumulations are uncertain astatine this clip and volition beryllium much known implicit the coming days.  

The FOX Forecast Center says that the way of the tempest volition inactive person large implications connected who volition spot rainfall oregon snow. 

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Stay with FOX Weather for continued sum arsenic we way this coast-to-coast tempest and impacts to come.

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