The National Weather Service warned Tuesday there will be “widespread” hazards from the western United States to the Great Lakes region starting Tuesday.
“Several weather systems will stretch impacts from Coast to Coast,” said a Tuesday afternoon bulletin issued by the National Weather Service (NWS), which said there will be “widespread hazardous travel” conditions. “Heavy snow to low elevations in the West will extend across the Intermountain West to the Great Lakes” along with “strong thunderstorms and damaging winds in the Mid-Atlantic,” according to the agency.
As of Tuesday afternoon, blizzard warnings were issued in parts of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Winter storm warnings were issued across a broader swath of area, impacting the same states as well as Nebraska, Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Oregon, Washington state, and California. Advisories were issued for portions of Pennsylvania and western New York….