Winter storm could become bomb cyclone over Great Lakes and Northeast

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A almighty tempest strategy presently producing dense snow, rainfall and beardown winds crossed parts of the bluish United States could go a "bomb cyclone" implicit the Great Lakes and Northeast regions, forecasters said.

Bomb cyclones tin hap erstwhile large storms intensify quickly, usually implicit 24 hours, and a wide of acold aerial collides with a hotter one, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In this case, meteorologists warned that a frigid Arctic beforehand plunging downward into the mediate of the state could clash with lukewarm aerial successful the South and perchance origin a scope of hazardous conditions, from snowstorms to thunderstorms, on with unusually acold temperatures.

The wintertime tempest connected Monday is sweeping crossed the Great Lakes and moving into the Northeast, bringing blizzard conditions, lake-enhanced snow, precocious winds and an icy concoction of freezing rain, CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan said. That volition beryllium followed by a spell of airy rainfall done Tuesday morning.

Several metropolitan areas are successful the way of the storm, including Green Bay, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston. Some areas could spot upwards of 6 to 10 inches of snowfall by Tuesday arsenic a effect of the wintry system.

Along with snow, interior spots successful New England should hole for crystal to accumulate, with adjacent to 1 inch imaginable successful definite places, forecasters said. Others could person up to 2 inches of rainfall, portion upwind gusts could besides scope 65 oregon 75 mph arsenic the tempest rolls through.

A surge of acold aerial is owed to get down the acold front, which volition let water effect snowfall to heap up, perchance reaching 1 to 2 feet successful pockets of Michigan and upstate New York. Farther retired from the Great Lakes themselves, a wider portion of the precocious Midwest and Northeast is expected to spot betwixt 1 and 6 inches of snow, with little snowfall totals forecast for places arsenic acold southbound arsenic Kentucky and West Virginia.

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Millions remained nether assorted wintertime upwind alerts and warnings arsenic the tempest traveled eastward connected Monday, including blizzard warnings successful effect for sections of Michigan's bluish peninsula and crystal tempest warnings successful spot for parts of upstate New York and Vermont, according to the National Weather Service.

A flurry of wintertime tempest warnings besides remained progressive done Tuesday successful galore of those aforesaid areas, successful summation to broader sections of the Midwest and Northeast, from Wisconsin up to Maine.

High upwind alerts were issued for much than 114 cardinal radical crossed the eastbound U.S. arsenic the acold beforehand moves in.