January 3, 2025 Friday Storm Update
Major winter storm will drop 1-2 feet of snow, and heavy icing and sleet
January 2025 was the 33rd-coolest January in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 29.2°F against a 1991–2020 normal of 32.3°F (-3.2°F).
January 2025 was the 5th-driest January in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 1.4in against a 1991–2020 normal of 2.3in (-1.0in).
NOAA/NCEI Climate at a Glance, contiguous United States. This is the observed record for the month, not a score of anything said in this piece — the forecast ledger begins 2026-08-17 and cannot reach earlier posts.
A double dose of nasty winter is about to smack much of the US with snow, ice and biting cold — AP January 3, 2025
Dangerous ice particularly lethal to power lines — “so heavy like paste, it’s hard to move,” said private meteorologist Ryan Maue — is likely to set in just south of that in southern Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and much of Kentucky and West Virginia.
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