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One of the few snowy stormfronts so far this winter is about to hit the central U.S., but snow-starved areas in the north -- from Minnesota to New England -- won't be getting any.
The Denver area should see snow start by Thursday night and into Friday for a total of up to 14 inches, NBC affiliate KUSA-TV reported.
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming will also feel the system, weather.com reported.
Much of the United States has been enjoying unseasonably warm weather, and it has many people asking whatever happened to winter? NBC's Anne Thompson looks at the "why" behind the wacky winter weather.
"If you have travel plans along I-80, I-70 and I-25 from late Thursday through Friday night across the states mentioned above, you may want to hold off. The combination of snow and gusty winds will make travel dangerous," wrote weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce. "Blizzard conditions are expected Thursday night through Friday night or early Saturday in parts of eastern Colorado, northwest Kansas, western and central Nebraska!"
Drought-hit Texas and Oklahoma can expect rain from the system, Dolce added.
The storm will slowly move east into the weekend, with rain in the South and Ohio Valley and some snow in a few Midwest areas.
PhotoBlog: Snow AWOL across continental US
But the Northern Plains and the Northeast won't see much, if any, impact.
How snow-impaired are some cities in those regions? Weather.com noted these stats for seasonal snow-to-date:
- Cincinnati has had 2 inches -- 17 percent of average;
- Boston got 7.8 inches -- 34 percent of average;
- Syracuse got 31.8 inches -- 42 percent of average;
- Minneapolis got 14.9 inches -- 44 percent of average;
- New York City got just 7.2 inches -- 60 percent of average;
- Chicago got 13.9 inches -- 67 percent of average.
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Bring on the snow - its the main input for our reservoirs.
The snow pack seems to be coming back some the last 3-4 years. The 80/90's were kind of thin.
Send the rain to Florida please - my pasture is in need of rain so that the grass will grow. My horses love the grass - but this time of year it slows way down - so I then need to buy lots of feed to keep them happy. Nay nay my horses say- please send the rain our way!
I hope people remember how to drive in it since the last one.
Fat chance on that!
This makes national news only because no one has been getting any.
You gotta love Global Warming huh?
What a moronic statement. Local snowfall levels for a single year have have little to with GLOBAL CLIMATE. If anything, slightly warmer temperatures closer to the freezing mark can promote more snow accumulation, not less. Educate yourself before you open your dumb-hole.
Could really use some moisture--last year here in western Wyoming, we had snow to give away. Not so much this year.
Ugh. Completely unfair. Colorado's been getting dumped on all winter, and Utah's barely gotten a pittance. Woke up this morning to a dusting that will likely be gone in the next three hours. Useless.
No it hasn't.
I wouldn't say dumped on... Denver got very little precip for the month of January, and most of the mountains been drier than normal too.
Denver's been getting dumped on all winter? You CLEARLY don't live in Denver.
or anywhere in the state, the only good snow we've gotten was way back the last week of october. also is anyone else getting the annoying captcha enter the words, every single time they post? for me it started about a month back and it assumes we all are spammers?!
Sometimes but just as often I get taken to a page that says a message has been sent to my email account to verify my post. Email never shows up.
Yeah! I can't wait! =D
Ok...I know that weather in Denver can change on a dime, but I'm sitting here looking out my office window at sunshine and blue skies all the way to the Rockies. My guess is we'll get just enough snow to make the driving a nightmare, but not enough to close my office. Stupid Colorado weather! ;-)
Ummm, look South.
we desperately need the snow. haven't had anything to speak of since last november and we have had to water the smaller trees and shrubs several times just so they don't die from this dry spell. the latest noaa predictions have a lot of areas getting 20" of snow and some areas are showing up to 30". thats great but the one bad thing, the wind. they also expect gusts from 30-45 mph creating white conditions and drifts several feet high. if all pans out it will be the first real winter storm in these parts going back almost a decade. hopefully people will be smart enough and play it safe by fueling up in advance, having enough food, meds etc. on hand for a few days or more for those of us who live in rural areas as well as having everything fully charged in case the power goes out. because of the freakishly warm january we've had with most days in the 50s and 60s a lot of places will see it start out as rain, then ice, then snow. not uncommon for areas further east but we don't get rain/ice here, just doesn't happen. oh well, let it snow, let it snow.
Mike you keep posting how we haven't had snow. Did you forget about the snow 2 days before Christmas? That was the biggest snow Denver had so far unless this one leaves more.
yes!
come on snow day. if denver gets this much snow it will shut everything down
I miss the snow in Colorado mainly because people there know how to drive in snow.
amen
I've been here over 40 years. Past 15 years people here have significantly lost the driving skills (in all weather) we used to see. People are so distracted by their gadgets and think their cars have auto-pilot.
Uh I am a native Coloradoan and I know how to drive in the snow. It's the idiot transplants from other states that can't drive here.
I was born and raised in Colorado and it is not competely unusual to have warm winters and not a lot of snow in Denver. One of the great climates in the world.
Hope the Denver airport is clear by Monday. My spouse is flying in for a meeting.
Wish it would snow in the DC area.
could it be el nina? thats affecting whole thing