Severe weather and historic snowfall will hit several areas in the central United States of the weekend, flirting with Utah and the Rocky Mountains.
What’s going on?
CNN reports that a new springtime storm system will fall over the Rockies, bringing “intense bands of snowfall” to Colorado and Wyoming.
- Drivers along interstates 25, 70 and 80 will see dangerous driving conditions, too, per CNN.
- “Very difficult to impossible travel conditions expected across all of southeast Wyoming and the Nebraska panhandle,” the National Weather Service office in Cheyenne, Wyoming, said Thursday. “Expect extended periods of whiteout conditions, low visibilities and possible power outages.”
Meanwhile, there will be severe storms — which can produce tornadoes — in southern states, too.
Will Utah see any snow?
Per KSL Weather, southern Utah will see snow develop, impacting central and southern Utah on Friday. Northern Utah will be cloudy with a few extra snow showers here and there.
This storm system will then move East on Saturday. But it will stay chilly along the Wasatch Front over the weekend.
- “Expect winter driving conditions over mountain routes late tonight through Saturday,” Kristen Van Dyke wrote for KSL Weather.
Anything else?
Meteorologists are apparently keeping an eye on a storm called a “trowal,” which is when “a cold front swinging around an area of low pressure catches up to and overtakes the more laggard warm front,” The Washington Post reports.
- The storm can bring a “hefty band of intense precipitation,” according to The Washington Post.