Christmas 2017 Forecast: Icy Travel, Frigid Temps

A mix of ice and snow will complicate travel from the Great Lakes to New England over the next few days and temperatures are expected to dip in the northern plains and the southeast thanks to a surge of Arctic air and a cold front, the National Weather Service predicts.

According to AccuWeather's forecast, snow will spread into the central Appalachians later Sunday evening before moving northeastward across New York state, northern New Jersey and New England Sunday night into Christmas morning. Their forecast says just enough snow may fall for a White Christmas across parts of the northeast.

Further south, in the Baltimore and D.C. area, little or no snow is likely. And according to the Capital Weather Gang over at The Washington Post, a strong cold front will enter the region overnight on Christmas Eve into Christmas day.

In the west, winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings are in effect from Oregon to western Nebraska. Coastal rains are expected in Washington, Oregon and eventually northwest California. The NWS predicts areas of snow across the Cascades and interior northwest and the norther and central rockies over the next couple of days.

In the south, showers and thunderstorms are forecast from the Southern Plains to the lower/middle Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley. Flooding concerns are elevated from southern Arkansas to central Kentucky.

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