Dee, sooz, kathy, Chaos.....anyone else I forgot, stay warm and safe!

Second wallop: 32 states in the path of another wild storm

Winter came out swinging Tuesday as the second storm of the week pummeled the nation's midsection and the East Coast hunkered down for an overnight onslaught of snow and ice.

All told, more than 115 million people in 32 states were in the path of a storm that threatened to cut power, ground flights and snarl traffic — again. Governors in states from Arkansas to New Jersey declared emergencies.

"It's another one of these significant snow storms, covering a large swath of the country," said Kevin Roth of The Weather Channel, who added that a long arm of the Northeast — from central New York into New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts — could be pounded by more than 12 inches of snow.

"Tomorrow morning's commute looks to be pretty unseemly for them," he said.

The storm was expected to hit the Northeast just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, Roth said, just a day after the region was walloped with fat flakes. Major cities like New York, Philadelphia and Washington will likely avoid the worst, but officials cautioned residents to brace for bone-chilling rain and ice.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for New York City beginning overnight and running until 6 p.m. Wednesday. Utility company Con Edison warned residents that a combination of snow and freezing rain could trigger power failures across the city. Meanwhile, another storm warning was out for the northern counties of New Jersey.

The storm smashed through the Plains on Tuesday, hitting Kansas and Oklahoma with snow that forecasters said could stack up to as much as a foot before moving north to drop 5 to 8 inches on Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Detroit, Roth said.

By 8 p.m. ET, 1,598 flights into or out of U.S. airports had been canceled, about a third of them at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings across 15 states early Tuesday from the Rockies to southern Maine.

"It's going to be like a hammer coming down I-70," said Jim Cantore, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel, reporting from Kansas City, Mo.

Marissa Ellison, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Transportation Department, said road conditions throughout northeast Missouri were "awful," with whiteout conditions in many areas.
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A third storm is also likely to form over the weekend, said Guy Walton, a forecaster with The Weather Channel, although it's too early to tell the storm's orientation or path.

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/seco ... wild-storm

We haven't been above 18 degrees here for several days. Yesterday morning it was -3 when I got up. Am so sick of cold weather. Can't wait until I can sit on my deck in the sun and read.

I am so over winter. I hate being cold. Oh well, just a few more weeks to go.

And here we seem to be heading into another heat wave... Looks like you just can't win ....