*Map is of the total snowfall until Wednesday morning**
The winter of 2010 continues to chug along as another very active period continues to set up from now until mid March. Then maybe just maybe the cold and snowy weather starts to retreat a little further now. Until then the coldest temperatures relative to average and heaviest precipitation will be from the California to Texas to the Carolinas. Texas and Louisiana will continue to be one of the wettest locations and possibly one of the snowiest over the next 10 days. Storm #1 currently moving across the Southwest will moves across the Southern plains tonight and through the day tomorrow. Producing accumulating snows across I-20 in Texas and as far south as Austin and Houston. Then weakening but still producing some snow across Louisiana and Mississippi. So one of the snowiest winters on record for many parts of North Texas continues to be added onto with another 1-4 inches possible by tomorrow afternoon.
Storm #2 moves in a little further north on Thursday across parts of Kansas and Oklahoma. Some warmer air will be able to build ahead of the low pressure system. So rain will be a bigger part of this storm at first until you get into Northern Oklahoma and Kansas Thursday afternoon. However as the low slowly strengthens and drifts southeast some colder weather will likely change the rain further south to snow. So accumulating will fall from Thursday night and through Friday from parts of Kansas and Oklahoma. Parts of Texas will likely see just mainly light rains. Then on Friday the accumulating snow move from Northeast Oklahoma to parts of Arkansas and again across northern Louisiana.
Storm #3 is possibly papa bear and could be a major late winter snow storm from coast to coast. That could create heavy rains, severe weather, ice and heavy snows. So stay tuned as March could come in like a lion across a good portion of the United States.
