Maps show a snowstorm forecast as the west medium and the east coast are preparing for winter climate

A winter storm procession continued throughout the United States on Tuesday, threatening more than 80 million from the west to the east coast with a mixture of potentially severe climate.

“A winter storm will bring strong snow and ice to the Ohio Valley to the middle of the Atlantic until Wednesday,” the National Meteorological Service saying. “Significant ice is forecast for central toilets. Another winter storm will bring strong snow and ice to today’s central plains.”

Forecast maps show the paths and possible effects of two strong climatic systems that are expected to cause winter ends this week in multiple regions.

The second winter storm of the week was to travel from the Mississippi Valley to the medium early Atlantic region on Tuesday morning, carrying with them an attack of chilling temperatures, heavy snow and significant ice for central appalaches and central plains, According to the weather service. .

Some communities on the path of a storm were preparing for another meteorological system to arrive on their heels, with which the National Meteorological Service called “significant.” CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan said a storm will probably track northeast from the big plains, impacting places in the west and northeast of Wednesday and Thursday.

“The storm will produce strong snow from the northeast of Kentucky to Western Virginia through the I-95 corridor from Richmond to Philadelphia,” said the weather service on a warning on Tuesday morning. “Nevada rates will sometimes reach 1 inch per hour, with a total of humid and humid snow of 4-8 inches expected. Isolated energy cuts are possible and trips can become extremely dangerous (especially during Tuesday’s trip through the night) “.

Snow, aguanieve and ice were expected on the north side of this week’s storms, while heavy rains were forecast on the southern side.

Several meteorological warnings were established to remain in place for large sections of the east of the United States until Thursday, since the forecasters said that the next winter storm could cover wide bands of the country with more than 10 inches of snow. Extreme cold warnings and cold weather notices were issued additionally in parts of the Rocky Mountains of the North, the large lakes and the central regions of the plains, due to a temperature of the Arctic Front, at 25 to 35 degrees below the average.

Meteorological services in Chicago and Hastings, Nebraska, urged people to prepare for at least 6 or 8 inches to accumulate, and parts of the center of Virginia and Virginia Occidental were prepared for up to half an inch of ice. The national forecast warned that excessive rainfall would increase the risks of sudden floods and floods of rivers in parts of the lower valleys of Mississippi and Tennessee, as well as southern Apalaches.

The forecast also said they expected heavy snow on Wednesday from the central plains to the great lakes, which could sometimes see snowfall rates of around 1 inch per hour. It is likely that at least 5 inches of snow would accumulate in those areas, according to the weather service, while a combination of aguanieve and frozen rain was probably on the east of Oklahoma and the Ozarks. Although less than one inch was forecast to dust off the affected places to the south, the weather service said that “any amount of ice rain could make dangerous trips on unrelated surfaces.”

Nikki Nolan contributed to this report.