United States: why traveling both on land and in the air will be a danger this week

Those planning to travel this week should think twice or expect significant delays due to adverse weather conditions in most of the country. United States, causing extremely dangerous conditions in some cases.

After a weekend in which significant snowfall and rain were recorded, weather conditions will continue to worsen and some areas are expecting a strong winter storm that is leading the National Weather Service to ask drivers not to travel unless absolutely necessary.

The meteorological phenomenon caused the accumulation of several centimeters of snow throughout the country, but conditions are not expected to improve in the next few hours, in fact, the Bad weather alerts will remain in effect throughout the day today and tomorrow.

According to predictions, up to 5 centimeters of snow per hour could be recorded in the central and southern plains from Monday until tomorrow. Later, the storm will move toward the Midwest.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 9, winter alerts will continue in the US.

Falling snow is expected to create hazardous conditions in the interior Northeast starting tomorrow. In turn, due to a snow storm, the plains of northeastern New Mexico, eastern Colorado, the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, western Kansas and southwestern Nebraska are also on alert.

The winds are also a risk, as they could reach more than 100 kilometers per hour, generating significant snow storms. and blackouts, making it extremely dangerous and even impossible to travel both by air and by land. So much so that the weather service is warning people to venture out with winter survival gear because the wind chill will also be below zero.

On the other hand, on the central Gulf Coast, also tomorrow morning, Severe thunderstorms are expected with very strong winds that could even cause tornadoes and floodinga threat that will remain until Wednesday, January 10.

While on the west coast, two powerful winter storm systems will occur over the northeastern Pacific, causing significant accumulation of snow and strong winds. In fact, the highest parts of the northern Rockies are likely to see more than a foot of snow tomorrow and into Wednesday.