Winter Storm Landon Update, Forecast As Multiple States Brace for Heavy Snow and Ice

A major winter storm, dubbed "Winter Storm Landon," is set to bring disruptive snow and ice to much of central U.S., beginning on Tuesday evening and continuing through Friday morning, only days after fast-moving blizzards buried the coastal Northeast in snow.

AccuWeather meteorologists said on Monday that the new, slower moving storm is expected to cause significant snow, ice and rainfall over the region, including on inland areas that were missed by the weekend storm. Winter storm watches and warnings covered a large chunk of the country from El Paso, Texas, through the Midwest and parts of the Northeast to Burlington, Vermont.

The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of snow accumulations from the Rockies and the Heartland to the Great Lakes beginning Tuesday night, and significant disruption to travel in the affected regions.

The NWS said that these areas will have temperatures "below freezing" and "well below average" for at least a couple of days after the storm ends. This is due to the emergence of arctic high pressure, which will descend over the Great Plains on Wednesday. High temperatures for many places across the Plains will be between 15-25 degrees lower than average between Wednesday and Friday.

"The press of the Arctic air is going to slow and stall, while at the same time a pair of storms will move northeastward along that temperature boundary," AccuWeather Chief On-Air Meteorologist Bernie Rayno said, being quoted on the site.

Rayno said that unlike the previous weekend's storm, where precipitation lasted for 12 or 24 hours, with this storm, the snow and ice could continue for two days.

Wednesday will see Winter Storm Landon persist in areas from the Rockies and the Heartland to the Great Lakes, with heavy snow in some spots. The snow, sleet and ice could extend as far south as Oklahoma and even in parts of northern Texas, the NWS said.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Wednesday night, rain could change to freezing rain and make travel difficult and dangerous.

Later on Wednesday, the storm will begin shifting to the interior Northeast. Snow, sleet and ice is likely to mainly impact the interior Northeast and northern New England, which were impacted by last weekend's storm, Weather.com reported.

Bitterly-cold temperatures will follow the wintry precipitation, the NWS warned.

Snowfall of six to 12 inches is expected over parts of the Southern Rockies and Central Plains to Midwest by Thursday morning, the weather agency reported.

On Thursday night, the storm will move eastward, with precipitation expected to taper off in Texas and Oklahoma by then.

On Friday, the storm will be unfolding in the Northeast. As the cold front sweeps through, rainfall in some regions of the Northeast may change to bouts of snow and ice, as far east as southern New England and the New York tri-state area.

The storm is expected to wind down on Friday evening.

The arrival of Winter Storm Landon comes nearly a year after a huge winter storm devastated Texas' power grid, causing hundreds of deaths in the southern state.