Important Takeaways:

• Winter storm warnings and advisories are in place across 14 states, with up to 7 feet of snow set to hit some mountain areas, bringing travel chaos just before Thanksgiving.
• The six warnings cover parts of Colorado, Idaho, Alaska, California, Oregon and Nevada, while advisories cover areas in Michigan, Maine, Wyoming, New York, Wisconsin, Vermont, New Mexico and Minnesota. Many will be in place until Wednesday, on a week when millions of Americans are planning to travel to celebrate Thanksgiving with their families.
• Hanford’s National Weather Service (NWS) office forecast that snow could accumulate up to 7 feet in the highest mountains in central California, while Las Vegas’ National Weather Service (NWS) office forecast that around 6 feet of snow will accumulate at the highest peaks in the Eastern Sierra slopes in Nevada, as wind gusts reach 40 mph.
• Meanwhile, in Colorado, Denver’s office warned about “significant travel disruptions and road closures” with snow “relatively persistent” from Monday to late on Wednesday evening.
• In California, where a storm warning covers a central part of the state, roads “and especially bridges and overpasses” are expected to become “slick and hazardous” making travel “very difficult to impossible.”
• An advisory covering portions of northern New York and central and eastern Vermont has also warned about difficult travel, with “icy road conditions” expected to “impact the Tuesday morning commute.”

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