HOUSTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A blast of winter weather was set to bring snowfall and subfreezing wind chills across the Midwest and East Coast on Saturday as well as near-freezing temperatures in parts of the South, including Florida, normally warm even this time of year.<\/p>\n
In northeastern Ohio, a snow squall \u2014 a sudden burst of heavy snow and gusty winds \u2014 was creating whiteout conditions, according to the National Weather Service. The snow squall conditions were moving into the Cleveland metro area Saturday and expected to continue east into Pennsylvania and parts of eastern New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cExpect visibilities of less than a quarter of a mile and rapid snow accumulation on roadways. Travel will be difficult and possibly dangerous in the heavy snow,\u201d according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
Below-average temperatures were being forecast for the Central and Eastern U.S. this weekend into early next week, according to the weather service. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe next few nights are forecast to be very cold for much of the Central and Eastern United States,\u201d the Weather Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service, said Saturday. \u201cSubzero wind chills are forecast from the Plains to the Midwest and Northeast, with the coldest wind chills expected in the Upper Midwest on Sunday night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Snowfall was expected by Sunday night to blanket Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with some areas getting up to 4 inches.<\/p>\n
The cold weather wasn\u2019t going to be limited to the northern parts of the U.S., as Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida were expected to have near-freezing temperatures through at least the weekend.<\/p>\n
In Tallahassee, Fla., residents could see snowfall Sunday morning, the weather service said. But if there is snow, it won\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo here in Tallahassee, the likelihood of any snow accumulation is not zero, but it\u2019s very low. I mean, the ground will be just too warm for anything to stick and accumulate,\u201d said Kristian Oliver, a meteorologist with the weather service\u2019s office in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n
If there is snowfall in the Tallahassee area Sunday, it would be the second time in as many years that Florida has experienced such winter weather.<\/p>\n
About this time a year ago, up to 10 inches of snow fell in areas of the Florida Panhandle, part of a record-breaking snowstorm that affected the Deep South, according to the National Weather Service. Areas that don\u2019t normally see snowfall, including Houston, New Orleans and parts of Florida, were hit by that winter storm. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn average we have an event like this maybe every few years. But having two, back to back, I\u2019d say is pretty anomalous for the area,\u201d Oliver said.<\/p>\n
Up to 3 inches of snow is expected Sunday morning in parts of central Georgia, south of Atlanta. The heavier snowfall is expected to take place between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlan on slippery roads during the snow, as well as on Sunday night into Monday morning as the remaining water\/snow refreezes,\u201d said the National Weather Service\u2019s Atlanta office.<\/p>\n
Lozano writes for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A blast of winter weather was set to bring snowfall and subfreezing wind chills across the Midwest and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2954,10186,8321,61057,28,30,29,8363,2072,3574,16515,59740,16649,12978,232,2393,26929],"class_list":["post-122380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-area","tag-central","tag-east-coast","tag-eastern-u-s","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-midwest","tag-national-weather-service","tag-part","tag-snow","tag-snowfall","tag-south","tag-sunday-night","tag-tallahassee","tag-time","tag-winter-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}