Hopefully, everyone has finished clearing the snow which piled up during Winter Storm Grayson, because Grayson’s big brother, Winter Storm Hunter, is fast approaching.
Hunter looks to be even bigger than Grayson, bringing freezing rain, then snow, then even colder temperatures than what we experienced after Grayson passed.
Hunter is coming from Canada, across the Northwest and Northern Great Plains, before rolling across the Northeast later in the weekend.
One benefit of Hunter’s path is that there will be no storm surge, so the coast won’t see the kind of flooding brought by the “bomb cyclone” earlier this month.
But after the rain, ice and snow to be dumped by Hunter on much of the eastern and parts of southern United States, temperatures are expected to plunge as a mass of bitterly cold Arctic air moves in.
Temperatures are expected to plummet to 12 degrees in Chicago, for instance, and to freezing or below as far south as Kentucky and Arkansas.
More Winter Woes for the Northeast
The Northeast, which was hit especially hard by Grayson’s “Bomb Cyclone” effects, is in for another freeze—and maybe more rising water woes, as well.When Hunter first hits, it could come as rain, melting even more of the snow which accumulated after Grayson. That water won’t have anywhere to go because the soil will be too frozen to absorb it. This could cause flooding in low-lying areas—and when the frigid air hits all that water, the Northeast could find itself covered in glacier-like sheets of ice.
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