Daily MailWinter weather isn’t waiting for the calendar to say when it’s time to hit the northern U.S. this year, with snowfall predicted across as many as seven states by Tuesday.
Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan should all see some snow in the coming week, if the new GFS model is correct, as expected temperatures dip into the 30s.
For the lucky in Wyoming, that snow will only fall on the mountains.
On its way south: The latest data shows snow falling as much as a month early across at least eight northern U.S. states over the next week
Way too early: Snow falls at the summit of Grand Targhee Resort in in Alta, Wyoming on August 31, 2014 – the last day of summer
From one extreme to the next: Weather predictions for fall show cold snowy weather around the northern and central plains, Midwest and the east slopes of the Rockies, while fire threats and continued drought on the west coast
Seriously?: Heavy snow at Togwotee Mountain Lodge In Moran, Wyoming, on Labor Day, much earlier than expected
If correct, that means the snow will be about a month earlier than usual.
‘I suspect any ‘lake effect’ in Michigan will be ice pellets embedded in rain showers coming off the lakes, which are probably still too warm for snow,’ wrote Roy W. Spencer on his personal site.
Spencer bills himself as a climatologist, author, and former NASA scientist.
‘Michigan lake effect snow usually holds off till October, at the earliest,’ he added.
According to Accuweather, the coldest air since last spring will move south from Canada and across the northern and central plains, Midwest and the east slopes of the Rockies.
The air will be followed by rain in some areas, before frost arrives on Friday.
Temperatures are forecast to dip into the 30s in rural areas of the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska, according to the weather website’s senior meteorologist, Alex Sosnowski.
Temperatures may also drop close to freezing for a few hours.
Forecast: A cold blast is moving south from Canada and expected to hit next week, affecting the northern and central plains, Midwest and the east slopes of the Rockies
Friday: Once the cold blast comes in, it is expected to be followed by rain and then frost. Temperatures in Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska may drop close to freezing for a few hours
Get ready: A major cold front will push southward from Canada through the Prairies on Monday with a strong, Arctic high pressure system building in behind it
Weather watchers have had ample warning.
As recently as early August, forecasters predicted blasts of cold air stinging the Northeast.
Those freezing temperatures are likely the cause of a polar vortex, which led to record lows and blistering cold winter last season, The New York Post reports.
Meanwhile in Michigan, the Detroit area was the hardest hit by an evening storm system on Friday night, with 230,000 customers still without electricity as of 9pm Saturday, according to CNN.
The figure is down from 385,000 at the height of the outage.
Officials have said some people could be without power for several days.
Ominous: Strong thunderstorms bringing heavy rain and possible hail move through St. Joseph, Michigan on Friday, September 5, 2014
Aftermath: Damage from an earlier storm is left on Croyden Street in Kalamazoo Township’s Westwood neighborhood of Michigan, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014
The utility says wind gusts of 75 mph downed more than 2,000 power lines Friday.
Crews from Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are traveling to Michigan to help.
Many high school football games that were stopped by lightning are resuming today.
In central Illinois, thunderstorms ripped the roof off a school gymnasium forcing a basketball team practicing in a neighboring gym to shelter in a locker room.
Tens of thousands of homes and business in the Chicago area lost power and a falling tree hit and critically injured a bicyclist.
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Yupper-doodle, gotta sell that propane at $6.00 a pound and fuel oil at triple the price because of “shortages”, wink, wink. Yes, folks will be burning their furniture to stay warm this winter while the rest of the so-called good Americans get that Red, White, and Blue dildo shoved up their arse a little deeper. (George Carlin). But hey, how you doin’ in your fantasy life, or, I meant league!?
Hey, Millard, for once we’re NOT on the bad list.
yay
Just keep in mind #1 that these sheeples first have to pull their head out of their arse before they get to see our elected officials smear doggie doo on our Bill of Rights.
Actually, we need desperately that rain/snow here.
Thanks to HAARP.
Well we have dark, overcast rain clouds here in CA in my area, but no wetness forecast for the next week anyway. You’ll get it in the Midwest and East I’m sure.
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