National Weather Service: “Multi-Hazard Storm for the Plains & Midwest”

A low pressure system will emerge into the Central Plains this evening, intensifying to near record strength for March as it moves through the Midwest towards the Great Lakes Tuesday & Wednesday. This will bring a threat of blizzard conditions, high winds, flash flooding, severe weather, dust storms, and critical to extreme fire weather conditions to the nation’s heartland.

The National Weather Service (NWS) announcing a storm that will create impacts through Wednesday throughout the Midwest and central and southern parts of the High Plains.

Why It Matters: The warning of a weather system bringing numerous threats, including heavy snow, high winds and fire conditions, to much of the Central U.S. comes as the Carolinas battle a series of wildfires amid dry conditions.

• The NWS cautions of heavy, quick-moving snow that will create areas of low visibility across the central High Plains and Midwest.
• In the central and southern High Plains, wind gusts of up to 80 mph could cause power outages and “widespread critical to extreme fire weather conditions” as well as dust storms across parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
• Parts of the Carolinas and Georgia remain under a fire threat through Monday evening; as the weather system from the Great Plains makes its way east, a risk of high winds, hail and tornadoes will increase for northern parts of South Carolina through western North Carolina.

Read More: National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center Forecast

Carolina Fire Maps Show Where Blazes Burning in North, South Carolina (Newsweek)