By: iTrucker  / Mario Pawlowski / iTrucker.com

Another major winter storm will track from the Lower Mississippi Valey this evening into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast through Friday. Containing threats for locally heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain.

Locally significant total ice accumulations of 0.25″ to 0.5″ are expected from eastern Texas into northern LA and western Mississippi through tonight before the storm comes to an end.

There is increasing potential for 0.25″ to 0.5″ ice accumulations across south-central Virginia, a region still recovering from a major ice storm that occurred this past weekend.

There will be significant travel disruption in both the snow and ice areas with concern for further/extended power outages for areas already experiencing power outages.

Record cold air over the southern Plains the western Gulf Coast precedes this event and is expected to continue through Saturday morning. – According to National Weather Service, weather.gov

Another winter storm will affect a large area through Friday – from the Lower Mississippi Valley into the Mid Atlantic and Northeast. pic.twitter.com/GpVMtFo7U3

— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) February 17, 2021

Snow/ice will spread from the South Plains into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Bitter cold continues. Isolated severe storms could produce a couple of tornadoes today in the central Gulf Coast & tomorrow in the Southeast. Rain with heavy mountain snow in the Northwest.

Snow/ice will spread from the South Plains into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Bitter cold continues. Isolated severe storms could produce a couple of tornadoes today in the central Gulf Coast & tomorrow in the Southeast. Rain with heavy mountain snow in the Northwest. pic.twitter.com/YLUWKk3Rr1

— National Weather Service (@NWS) February 18, 2021

Source and credits: weather.gov/twitter

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