Another major winter storm, with possible blizzard conditions, forecast for Southeast [View all]
Source: NBC News
Jan. 30, 2026, 12:16 AM EST / Updated Jan. 30, 2026, 5:35 AM EST
Forecasters warned that a major storm was set to wallop the Southeast this weekend, days after another weather system brought paralyzing snow and ice to large parts of the United States.
A new round of Arctic air was moving across the country after a low-pressure system formed in the Southern Plains on Thursday. It was moving east and “expected to produce a major winter storm” for the mid-Atlantic states and the Carolinas and Virginia, the National Weather Service said. Some forecasters have declared the weather system will become a "bomb cyclone," a fast-developing storm that's the winter equivalent of a hurricane, and warn it could bring heavy snow and blizzard conditions.
"The storm, in all its fury in the Carolinas and southern Virginia, would be a formidable event for states in the northern tier from Maine to Michigan and Minnesota, with the combination of significant snow, cold conditions, and blowing and drifting of snow on the ground," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski wrote in a forecast.
In and around Charleston, South Carolina, wind chills are likely to be in the single digits Sunday morning, the weather service forecast office there said. Snow was forecast for an area that includes Charleston, as well as Statesboro and Savannah in Georgia, starting Saturday through Sunday morning, with total amounts of 1 to 4 inches, it said.
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The SSTs (sea surface temperatures) are warmer down there, which would help fuel this and enhance the possibility of freezing rain along the coast.
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