Midweek storm to bring severe threats in addition to snow and ice

A large storm moving across the Midwest and Northeast will bring a variety of types of precipitation from Feb. 5-6.

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00:00We're looking at a mix of types of precipitation for the Midwest, the

00:03Northeast, north central tiers of the country as well as we head into mid

00:07week now taking a look at alerts that have already been issued. None of these

00:11are in effect quite yet. They've been issued ahead of things starting

00:15tomorrow and some of these like the winter weather advisories here kind of

00:20east or west of Chicago that will go into effect tomorrow morning and then

00:24the ice storm warning here in the winter weather advisories. Those will

00:27go into effect more towards the evening, which is indicative of the

00:30timing of this storm here. Let's go ahead and lay out exactly what to

00:34expect for you. I mentioned multiple types of precipitation, but we'll see

00:38some mixing in between kind of the categories here. Some snow, then

00:41freezing rain, then rain, some situations like that. As far as the

00:45impacts, a lot of different impacts for a lot of different kind of situations

00:49depending on where you are. As far as the ice, of course, we're talking about

00:52dangerous travel conditions, but even power outages are possible. There is a

00:56small area with a small severe weather threat. As far as the snow, we're

01:01expecting a couple inches of snow, so more of the impacts are coming from the

01:05mix in of that ice. Behind all of this, we have cold, gusty winds to look

01:10forward to. Here's that severe weather threat. Like I mentioned, not a very

01:13large area and not a very large severe weather threat either. We're not

01:16talking about a tornado outbreak or anything like that, but we are talking

01:20about the risk of some hail and some locally damaging wind gusts, which can

01:23lead to localized power outages as well. There's a couple areas of snow

01:27that we have to break down. This is not necessarily the main snow from this

01:32storm, but we are going to see some snow move through the northern portions of

01:36the north central region of the country. 1 to 3 inches for the most part, not a

01:40huge impact. Then ahead of the storm, we have a quick burst of some snow. Then

01:45here comes the main event here. 1 to 3 inches for the most part, some areas

01:49with 3 to 6 inches of snow. But like I mentioned, some areas are going to start

01:53with this snow and then move over to freezing rain, maybe some sleet and

01:57then plain old rain to finish things off.