So yeah, I don't wish the coming #Icepocalypse on anyone, but I think a lot of #RedStates are about to find out what #FAAFO means...
Um, #IceStorms predicted for #CentralUS and #SoutheastUS. Luckily, folks in #Maine only have to deal with 16 inches of snow (!!!). But still. My heart goes out to anyone who is unhoused and can't find shelter -- wherever they are. And, well, #FEMACuts and cuts to #SocialServices and #FoodBanks are NOT helping the situation!
Major snow, #IceStorm to affect more than 150 million people in southern, eastern US
A massive winter storm is set to spread heavy snow and ice across more than two dozen states, threatening travel, power outages and dangerous cold from the South and Plains to the Northeast this weekend.
By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologist
Published Jan 20, 2026 11:59 AM EST | Updated Jan 22, 2026
"A high-impact winter storm will spread snow and ice across more than two dozen states from #Texas through the #Carolinas and #Maine from Friday through the weekend. The amount and extent of snow and ice could cut power and disrupt travel for days, increasing the risk to lives and property.
" 'Potentially hundreds of thousands of people may go without electricity and heat for days,' AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter said.
"So much snow and sleet may occur that roads could become clogged in areas ill-equipped to handle even a light coating of snow, let alone several inches, from #Texas and #Oklahoma to the #MississippiValley. Schools and child-care centers may be closed for days.
"In areas where a thick glaze of ice forms, scores of trees and power lines may come down, and removing ice from streets, highways, parking lots and sidewalks may be difficult or impossible, especially where ice-melting supplies are limited. Utility crews could be overwhelmed by the scope of the storm. "
#FEMACuts #WinterWeather #Preparedness #USWx
#ExtremeWeather #PowerOutages #EmergencyPreparedness #ChargeYourPhones #ChargeYourBatteries
“Unfortunately for all of us, the Trump administration is directly undermining efforts to protect American communities from ever more common and extreme weather events. Beyond the future adverse effects of the White House’s climate denialism, there are also steps that President Trump and his minions are taking to exacerbate the consequences of severe weather right now.”
#Politics #USPolitics #ClimateCrisis #DisasterPreparedness #Flooding #FEMACuts #TrumpRegimeCruelty
https://prospect.org/2026/01/09/trump-regime-making-disasters-worse-dhs-noem-fema-flooding/
But hey, what a great time to cut #FEMA! Will the winning stop?!!
#HurricaneHumberto could mingle with another developing storm in what's called the #FujiwharaEffect
By Emily Mae Czachor, September 27, 2025
Excerpt: "Humberto, the eighth named storm to emerge this hurricane season, is currently swirling over waters just north of the Caribbean as a major hurricane. While forecasts as of Saturday predict Humberto won't ever touch land, there is a possibility it could interact with another system developing nearby in the western Atlantic.
"That's an unlikely outcome, said CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan. But if such a collision does occur, it could produce what's called the Fujiwhara effect, a rare phenomenon in which two different storms merge and become entangled around a newly formed, common center.
"How the process plays out depends on the characteristics of the storms involved, according to the National Weather Service. The forecasting agency describes the Fujiwhara effect on its website as 'an intense dance' between two tropical storms that can happen when they get close enough to each other on their respective tracks to reach a common point and either join together or spin around each other for a period of time before continuing along their individual paths.
"In the latter scenario, the storms involved must be comparably strong or large.
" 'Typically when one system is stronger than the other, the smaller and weaker system will get overrun by the larger, stronger one and completely eliminate it,' Nolan said.
"Similar systems 'will dance around each other' before going their separate ways, she continued, adding: 'Very rarely has a larger system absorbed a smaller one and become larger or stronger, but it is scientifically possible.'
" 'With the two tropical troubles currently north of the Caribbean, these two may interact under the Fujiwhara effect in the days ahead,' said Nolan. However, because the developing system 'appears to be much weaker than Humberto and several miles away from it,' an interaction between the two — if one even takes place at all — may not result in a tangled gravitational 'dance.'
"Humberto grew into a tropical storm Wednesday night while traveling over open waters in the central tropical Atlantic, and then gained hurricane status early Friday morning. Humberto was a Category 4 storm as of early Saturday morning.
"Forecasters expect it to move northwest over the next few days and strengthen along the way, the National Hurricane Center said. It's one of two systems in the region that could potentially impact parts of the southeastern United States, including coastal areas from Florida to North Carolina, according to Michael Brennan, director of the hurricane center."
Full article:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/humberto-another-developing-storm-fujiwhara-effect/
Tropical Storm Humberto was on its way toward becoming a hurricane within a day or so over the central Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said.
via @maddow.msnbc.com
"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM.
All three #Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed.
There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..."
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article306679051.html#storylink=cpy
#FEMACuts #NOAACuts #FEMA #NOAA #Tornadoes #Flooding #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BadDOGE #NWS #NWSCuts #TrumpHatesThePoor #TrumpSucks #USWx #ExtremeWx #ExtremeWeather
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