Meteorologists are predicting colder-than-normal temperatures to hit a large portion of the United States, which will bring the first snowstorms of the year to many areas.
Towns and cities in northern Midwest have already been blanketed with snow this weekend and the same treatment is set to arrive in the central Plains, Ohio Valley, mid-Atlantic and New England starting early next week.
There was a 45-car pileup along Interstate 70 about 10 miles from Terre Haute, Indiana, due to the snow.
Several of the cars slid across the eastbound side to the median, into the grass, and even toward oncoming traffic on the westbound side of the highway.
Incoming storms are expected impact ground and air travel, while also forcing schools in certain areas to shutter temporarily.
‘My thinking is that the cold the first week of December is the appetizer and the main course will be in mid-December,’ climatologist Judah Cohen, a research scientist at MIT, told USA Today.
He further claimed that his computer model is forecasting ‘that the most expansive region of most likely extreme cold on Earth stretches from the Canadian Plains to the US East Coast in the third week of December’.
A ‘polar vortex’, or a large, low-pressure cold air system, will remain up above Canada for the next seven to ten days, said Weather Trader meteorologist Ryan Maue in a Substack post.
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