Snowfall is anticipated to start truly fizzling out in Texas Tuesday morning because the storm shifts east alongside the coast towards Florida and the Carolinas. A wintry mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain will coat the Florida Panhandle’s white sand seashores in cities like Pensacola and Panama Metropolis Tuesday night and in a single day.
The very chilly and uncommon air dipping into the Gulf Coast causes this coastal storm to behave just a little extra like a nor’easter, which pulls ocean moisture into frigid air to create winter hazards within the Northeast. Although residents of Mid-Atlantic and New England States are used to this sort of climate, folks within the South, usually a haven for snowbirds seeking to escape the chilly months within the North, should not.
In New Orleans, the snowfall ought to subside by means of the afternoon, and the system will proceed alongside Interstate 10, which hugs the Gulf Coast into Florida. The snow ought to keep contained to Florida’s Panhandle as rain hits the peninsula farther south.
By Tuesday afternoon, snow will almost certainly start falling throughout southern Georgia, with heavier snow falling south of Atlanta, the place faculties have been closed Tuesday out of an abundance of warning and due to very chilly temperatures. The storm will unfold over the Carolinas, creating a spread of winter climate with the heaviest snow staying south of Interstate 20, which runs by means of Atlanta and Columbia, S.C. By late afternoon and night, a wintry mixture of snowy climate is anticipated to reach within the coastal cities of Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C.
The storm’s remaining stretch of deep snow, of two to seven inches, will fall throughout the Outer Banks of North Carolina in a single day because the storm strikes into the Atlantic Ocean.
