The latest in a long line of winter storms is taking direct aim at the East Coast, threatening to dump heavy snow and some ice in several states. A storm that dropped snow in the Midwest was spreading across the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys on Wednesday,
Connecticut will only see about an inch of snow Thursday, missing the brunt of a major winter storm moving across the United States this week, NWS says.
The office of the Weather Service in Bismarck, N.D., described the conditions as “life threatening,” cautioning that wind chills in western and central North Dakota could lead to hypothermia. Subzero wind chills are also expected to extend as far south as Texas, Arkansas and western Tennessee and Kentucky.