Winter Weather Summary January 26,

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Winter Weather Summary
POSTED: January 26, 2004 8:03 a.m.


Snow and Ice Woes Continue
By Accuweather.com meteorologist Michael LeSeney



The wintry mess of snow and ice will continue to plague the Midwest, Southeast and the mid-Atlantic states today. A complex of storm systems are combining to produce widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain across these areas and will continue to do so through tonight.

A dangerous mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain will create icy roads and hazardous travel across northeastern Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, northern West Virginia, southern New Jersey, southern and western Pennsylvania, Ohio, southern and eastern Indiana, southeastern Michigan, northern Kentucky, southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois today. Expect slow traffic along with travel disruptions, delays and detours. The worst of the icing may be across the Carolinas, where freezing rain will bring down trees and power lines while coating the roads in a glaze of ice.

To the north and west of the ice will be an area of just snow today that will accumulate 1-3 inches. Expect snow across northern New Jersey, northeastern Pennsylvania, southern and western New York (including NYC and Long Island), northern and western lower Michigan, upper Michigan, northwestern Indiana, northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, eastern South Dakota, Iowa, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas into western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The snow will make the major highways snow covered and icy in spots.



Meanwhile, in the West more snow will fall in the mountains of the Northwest today and tonight and will accumulate 1-3 inches across eastern Washington, northeastern Oregon, northwestern Wyoming into central Utah with 3-6 inches of new snow across northern Idaho, western Montana and the Oregon Cascades. Heavier snow will fall in the Washington Cascades, where there could be 6-12 inches of new snow during the next 24 hours. Snow will develop in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California tonight will accumulate 1-3.