This is what you call reverse global warming, folks. For the foreseeablefuture, which takes us right into mid-January, it looks like much of the UnitedStates will be in a cold and stormy weather pattern. The cold will be mostpronounced through the central and eastern part of the country.This week things are just getting started with an icy blast in the Great Lakesand Northeast followed by a possible East Coast storm New Years Eve and NewYears Day.
The Northwest will be stormy as well with no less than two significant eventsof rain and snow between Tuesday and Friday.
Story By AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist John Kocet.
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