Quick-Hitting Snow to Coat Chicago, Denver at Midweek

By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist

February 3,2015; 9:04PM,EST

 

 

An Alberta Clipper storm will sweep from the Plains through the Midwest midweek with mostly a nuisance snowfall but still slippery travel nonetheless.
With cities and townships struggling to find places to put the snow and students missing multiple days from school, more snow will accumulate and more delays are possible.
Fortunately, the clipper storm will be starved of moisture along much of its path and will bring only a light snowfall or snow showers from the northern Plains to the Midwest, eventually reaching parts of the Northeast.

According to AccuWeather.com Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams, "The snow at midweek in the Midwest and probably the Northeast will seem like a snowflake in a glacier for most people."
"However, a fresh covering of snow can create new problems, even if the storm is much weaker than the one millions have just endured."
The storm with its patchy snow will affect the Central states Tuesday night into Wednesday before reaching the Northeast by Thursday.
Cities in the Midwest during the day on Wednesday that can be affected by the swath of light snow include Omaha, Nebraska; Des Moines, Iowa; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland.

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Enough snow can fall to make roads and slippery again, following the wildfires across the northwest fifth-largest snowstorm in Chicago history.
Behind this snow, a new Canadian air mass will push another wave of arctic cold with highs in the teens and twenty's Thursday.
As the clipper storm approaches the Atlantic coast, a second system swinging up from the south will begin to interact with it.
How these two systems interact will determine whether or not more than a few inches of snow develops from part of the New Jersey to Long Island, New York, to eastern New England as the week comes to a close.
AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Courtney Spamer contributed content to this story.