Author: Colton Hayes

CALIFORNIA — A well-organized winter storm system is set to impact Southern California during New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, bringing widespread rainfall, locally heavy totals, and travel impacts across coastal, valley, and mountain communities, according to final forecast guidance. Forecast maps issued by the Southern California Weather Force show this system arriving as…

NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA — A prolonged lake-effect snow event is expected to intensify downwind of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario through New Year’s Day, with growing confidence that dangerous snow squalls and gusty winds will develop on New Year’s Eve, creating hazardous travel conditions across parts of western and northern New York and northwestern…

GREAT LAKES REGION — Ice coverage across the Great Lakes remains well below long-term averages as of December 30, 2025, despite recent cold spells affecting parts of the Upper Midwest and Northeast. New data shows that overall ice development is still lagging across Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, and surrounding regions as the calendar turns…

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA — Residents of Interior Alaska are preparing to ring in the New Year under exceptionally dangerous cold, as forecasts show temperatures plunging into the minus 40s for both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in Fairbanks. According to the latest local forecast data, cloud cover remaining south of the region will allow…

ALABAMA — New long-range guidance from the European weather model indicates that Alabama is very unlikely to see any measurable snowfall through at least January 13, as winter storm activity and snow potential remain concentrated well north of the Deep South. The latest ECMWF AIFS ensemble snowfall probability maps show a zero percent chance of…

PENNSYLVANIA — A powerful winter storm swept across Central Pennsylvania between late December 29 and early December 30, 2025, producing damaging wind gusts, accumulating snowfall, and hazardous travel conditions across multiple counties, according to observed weather data compiled over a 36-hour period. The storm delivered near-hurricane-force wind gusts in some locations and several inches of…

OHIO — The National Weather Service is warning residents that two separate rounds of snow are expected across Ohio over the next couple of days, bringing light but potentially travel-disrupting accumulations to several communities. The timing and distribution of the snowfall indicate that Wednesday and Wednesday night may produce the most noticeable impacts, especially across…

ILLINOIS — Long-range forecast data from the European weather model is increasingly signaling that a prolonged Arctic cold pattern will settle across the Midwest, Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and Northeast during mid to late January, bringing an extended stretch of below-normal temperatures to several highly populated states. The latest ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System (EPS) guidance,…

UNITED STATES — A powerful Arctic front sweeping across the central and southern United States has triggered an extraordinary 24-hour temperature collapse, with parts of the Plains and Deep South recording drops of 40 to more than 55 degrees Fahrenheit, according to high-resolution RTMA temperature change data. The most dramatic impacts were concentrated across Texas,…

UNITED STATES — Forecasters are closely monitoring a developing weather pattern that could bring increased storm chances to parts of the Southeast and Florida late this week, as a modest surface low pressure system moves east across the southern United States. According to early model guidance and Storm Prediction Center discussions, the system is expected…