US Weather Update - 1/19/25
Winter is kicking into high gear across most of the US, with a frigid arctic blast making its way across the central and eastern lower 48, bringing the coldest temperatures of the season to widespread areas. Areas of the plains have seen a dramatic plunge in temps over the past 48 hours, leading to extreme cold warnings and wind chill temps as low as -50 Fahrenheit in the Dakotas and Minnesota. By tomorrow, far below average temperatures (upwards of 30+ degrees below average) will have overtaken most of the eastern 2/3 of the US. At the same time, Winter Storm Demi is hitting the northeast at the time of posting, bringing snow to the I-95 corridor and nasty weather to the Divisional Playoff NFL games. Anywhere between 2 to 6 inches is forecast throughout most of the urban areas in the northeast, with slightly more inland away from the coast. The bigger story, however, will be Winter Storm Enzo, which will bring significant accumulating snow to the Deep South in the coming days, even to areas that haven't seen snow in decades! 2-3 inches is possible around Houston, 5-8 in central Louisiana and 3-4 on the Northern Gulf Coast from New Orleans, to Mobile, and even all the way to Pensacola and Tallahassee. Parts of North Florida could see a very significant ice event, including areas like Lake City and Gainesville! Then the snow will head up the Carolina Coast. Keep in mind this storm will be mostly a Deep South and Southeast event, with locations inland like Northern Louisiana, Northern Mississippi, Northern Alabama, Northern Georgia, and inland Carolinas mostly missing out. Temperatures will be very cold with highs bottoming out in the 20s and lows in the teens in many places. Here is the forecasted totals map from Weather.com.
For the west, things are pretty quiet, but Santa Ana winds in southern California will start again from tomorrow, elevating fire conditions to extreme in certain areas, which is horrible news for an area already ravaged by fires and in worsening drought during a typically wet time of year.












