A severe mid November storm currently rages through the heart of America, bringing blizzard conditions and lots of snow and freezing rain along with tornadoes. The storm looks to continue on and threaten the Northeast.
A gigantic November storm has been bearing down on many parts of the Midwest since Wednesday, and is bringing blizzard conditions, high winds, and tornadoes from Utah to Ohio. The storm doesn’t seem to be losing any of its momentum and weather analysts predict it will roar through the Midwest and then set its sites on the Northeast.
The whipping wind and blinding snow was so severe in parts of Iowa and Nebraska that there have been thousands of power outages, and the winds and tornadoes have even been flipping over 18-wheel semi trailer trucks, according to reports at Fox News.
Analysts at the National Weather Service reported that the storm began to roar out of the Rocky Mountains late on Tuesday, dumping a foot of snow in its wake with blizzard-like winds that have created many tornadoes in various regions as the storm moves east. By late Wednesday night, the storm had reached Missouri, Iowa and parts of Illinois bringing sustained winds of around 35 mph with powerful wind gusts of over 60 mph.
The National Weather Service states that this is a prototypical snow storm for November. They say that there is both a cold and a warm front to the storm. On the cold side of the storm, there will be high winds and blinding snow as well as the potential for deadly freezing rain. On the warm side of the storm, the thunderstorms created will be powerful and turbulent and, if turbulent enough, will create tornadoes in many areas.
Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nebraska have already been hit by the storm which brought severe blizzard conditions with it out of the Rockies. Many drivers in Iowa are saying that they saw the dark and swirling storm clouds approaching them and the next thing they knew their vehicles were flying through the air and landing in another lane.
The storm is expected to impact around 37 million people and the swath of the storm ranges from Colorado into Ohio and from Texas all the way through into Michigan. The storm looks to continue on in the next few days and also looks to ultimately threaten the Northeast region.
