Better warn those traders to break out their thermal underwear...Brrr...Now watch the OG stocks run some more.
PAIR OF STORMS, BITTER COLD HIGHLIGHT WEATHER WEEK
By AccuWeather.com News Director Steve Penstone
STATE COLLEGE, PA (AccuWeather.com) -- AccuWeather.com Winter Center meteorologists say a pair of snowstorms and bitterly cold temperatures will affect much of the nation during the week.
The first storm today brought a variety of precipitation from Florida into western and northern Virginia. By Tuesday morning, the hardest-hit areas will have been across northern Virginia into the Delmarva Peninsula and southern New Jersey, where three to six inches of snow will occur before the storm moves out to sea.
Farther south there were Tornado Watches and Warnings through late this afternoon across several counties in North Florida and Southern Georgia as the storm brings heavy rain to the Southeast.
The snow will cause some travel problems overnight and into Tuesday. Motorists can expect icy and snow-covered roads, and flight delays at the major Northeast airports are possible. Any delays at those airports could lead to an accompanying domino effect developing at other airports.
This is forecast to be a fast-moving storm, leaving the D.C. area by 3:00 AM EST, and it will be gone from New York City before the morning rush hour.
Bitterly cold weather has overwhelmed much of the country from the Rockies to the Northeast. The Sunday/Monday overnight low at Chicago's O'Hare Airport dipped to 5 above, positively balmy compared to these record lows farther west:
Moline, Ill.: -4 breaking the record of -2 set in 1886
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: -9 breaking the record of -4 set in 1898
Mobridge, S.D.: -20 breaking the record of -17 set in 1950
Aberdeen, S.D.: -25 breaking the record of -22 set in 1972
The bitter cold shows no sign of easing. Tuesday's high temperatures in the Dakotas and Montana will be in single digits. The mercury will climb into the teens across Minnesota and Wisconsin, and into the 20s through the Great Lakes states.
Winter Center meteorologists forecast the cold will play a major role as the next storm moves out of the Rockies on Tuesday night. By Wednesday night, the storm will have deposited a swath of snow and ice from the Texas Panhandle across Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. By Friday, it will bring snow and ice to the Ohio and Tennessee valleys and the mid-Atlantic states.
The AccuWeather.com Winter Center meteorologists stress the late-week storm will bring snow and ice to a large area of the country from the Rockies to the mid-Atlantic states, causing widespread travel problems, especially in areas that normally do not experience snow and ice this early in the meteorological winter season.
