Important Takeaways:

• The coast-to-coast storm began its journey over the weekend when it slammed into the West Coast with torrential rain and heavy mountain snow, impacting communities along the busy Interstate 5 corridor from California to Washington.
• The storm then pushed off to the east and moved into the Rockies, where it dumped snow in Utah and Colorado.
• The storm is now expected to emerge into the Plains, but its effects will be widespread and stretch from the Rockies to Ohio.
• By Thanksgiving Day, the system will move into the Midwest and Ohio Valley and then into the Northeast, threatening the region with more winter weather.
• The FOX Forecast Center said rain is expected in the Midwest on Wednesday but remains focused on the threat of snow from Illinois to Ohio.
• That’s because temperatures may fall enough to produce snow in a narrow band stretching from central Illinois to central Ohio.
• However, the snow will become more widespread as the system sweeps into the Northeast on Thanksgiving Day.
• The heaviest snow is expected across the mountainous areas of the Catskills, Poconos, Adirondacks and Green and White Mountains, particularly at elevations higher than 1,500 feet.
• The main threat from storms that develop will be damaging wind gusts, but there is also the possibility of some tornadoes.
• As the Thanksgiving Day winter storm exits the Northeast, it will pull in even colder, arctic air from Canada, and it will extend to the south, potentially as far as the Southeast.
• By Friday, over 230 million Americans will be shivering in below-average temperatures.

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