The Northeast U.S. remains to be digging out from the monster snowstorm that hit over the weekend, however the remainder of the nation higher buckle up—there’s some severe climate coming this week. A storm may hit states from Colorado to components of Texas to Ohio by Groundhog Day, dumping freezing rain and snow and snarling vacationers in messy climate.

The storm, dubbed Winter Storm Landon, is the results of a chilly entrance that’s anticipated to maneuver into a lot of the Midwest and central U.S this week, backed by freezing Arctic air. The jet stream transferring south will assist unfold moisture over the chilly air, creating the recipe for doable snow, sleet, freezing rain, and icy circumstances in an enormous strip of the united statesthrough Friday. About 1,000 miles of the U.S., extending diagonally northeast from Colorado Springs, Colorado, and components of northern Texas to Chicago and Detroit are at the moment below winter storm watches for Tuesday by Thursday. Over the course of the week, Landon may impression residents from Texas to Maine.

The storm remains to be forming, so predicting what’s going to occur remains to be a fairly inexact science—lots may change between now and Wednesday. But preliminary forecasts present a fairly gross set of circumstances in a number of totally different states, starting Tuesday night time, when snow and rain—a wintry combine—is predicted to start out in an space spanning from the Rocky Mountains to components of the Great Lakes. This climate is predicted to final by Wednesday, which is Groundhog Day, into Thursday.

Parts of Colorado may see as much as a foot of snow, whereas snow is even doable in components of northern Texas. The National Weather Service exhibits almost the whole lot of Missouri is below a winter storm watch (which isn’t as severe as an advisory or a warning and is defined as circumstances which are “favorable” for a storm occasion to develop), in addition to a lot of Illinois. What’s in retailer for locations farther east is determined by how the storm develops, however forecasters say snow heavy snow is possible in New York Thursday, whereas “rain, snow, freezing rain, sleet are all on the table” for components of Ohio and Pennsylvania, the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh said. Portions of the Northeast may see a few of this icy, snowy climate on the tail finish of this week, however hotter winds will probably change a lot of the snow to rain by the point the storm hits the mid-Atlantic and New England.

Again, this storm remains to be a number of days away, so it’s not simple to inform what precisely goes to occur, however forecasters say journey will most likely be tough to unattainable in some locations. The Federal Aviation Administration, which doesn’t cancel particular person flights, suggested vacationers in a tweet Monday to control their flights and pay attention for bulletins from airways about their particular flights.