Important Takeaways:

• The fifth winter storm in just a week is set to sweep across the US, prompting travel warnings as it spreads snow and ice from California to Maine.
• Winter storm Jett is expected to barrel across a wide swath of the US from Thursday to Sunday.
• The West Coast will receive its first snowfall today, with up to six feet in high-elevation areas, before the storm moves eastward over the weekend.
• The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued various winter weather alerts for snow, ice, wind and extreme cold today in parts of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Montana.
• Nearly 2,000 flights in and out of US airports were delayed and more than 220 were cancelled as of Thursday morning, according to FlightAware.com.
• The storm will reach the eastern US Friday evening and will begin spreading up to a foot of snow across the Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes and Northeast through Sunday.
• Areas most likely to receive 12 inches include central Wisconsin and Michigan, along with northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
• Enough snow could fall in Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois to disrupt operations at two major Midwest airports located in these cities, AccuWeather meteorologists warned.
• Winter Storm Jett comes on the heels of two other storms that hit wide swaths of the nation earlier this week.

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