Get ready for snowmageddon: New map reveals 200m Americans will be lashed by snow, ice and flooding this week

A caller forecast representation has revealed a 3,000-mile-long swath of the US acceptable to beryllium deed with snowfall this week arsenic a trio of wintertime storms barrels crossed the US. 

Meteorologists foretell accumulating snowfall volition autumn successful much than 40 states from California to Maine implicit the adjacent 4 days. Most areas volition person 1 to six inches, but immoderate could spot a ft oregon more. 

By the extremity of the week, respective feet of snowfall could heap up successful California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

Heavy accumulations are besides expected successful Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. 

In the Midwest, overmuch of bluish Kansas is expecting up to a ft of snow, arsenic good arsenic localized areas successful Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois.  

Further East, up to a ft of snowfall whitethorn autumn successful bluish Virginia and bluish Maine, arsenic good arsenic portions of upstate New York and West Virginia. 

The snowfall volition beryllium brought by 3 back-to-back storms acceptable to deed the US this week, prompting the National Weather Service (NWS) to contented wintertime tempest warnings and advisories successful parts of 20 states.   

Those see Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. 

In summation to the snow, wide icing could origin powerfulness outages, make unsafe roadworthy conditions and trigger deicing operations astatine airports, perchance starring to formation delays. 

Significant rainfall and flooding are besides a interest for the south-central and southeastern US. 

The archetypal 2 storms could inundate the portion with 2 to six inches of rainfall done Thursday, followed by the 3rd tempest connected Friday that volition dump 5 to 10 inches of rain. This could origin flooding and perchance unsafe thunderstorms.

The archetypal tempest kicks disconnected Tuesday and stretches into Wednesday, bringing dense snowfall and unsafe crystal accumulations to much than a twelve eastbound states from Missouri to Maryland and Massachusetts, according to AccuWeather.

In immoderate places, snowfall rates could scope 1 to 2 inches per hour, making it intolerable for roadworthy crews to support up, AccuWeather meteorologists warned.

The country from eastbound Kentucky to New Jersey and Delaware is expected to spot the astir snowfall, with astir 3 to six inches of accumulation. This includes the large cities of Washington DC, Philadelphia and Charleston, West Virginia. 

This archetypal tempest unsocial has the imaginable to interruption snowfall records.

Washington DC volition beryllium good up of its seasonal snowfall mean by mid-week. As of February 10, the nation's superior has seen 8.4 inches of snowfall compared to the humanities mean of 8.6 inches. 

This storm's interaction volition besides widen northbound from New York City to confederate New England, wherever 1 to 4 inches of snowfall is expected. 

Further south, freezing rainfall could dispersed crystal from southwestern Virginia to southeastern West Virginia and northwestern North Carolina, creating unsafe question conditions and imaginable powerfulness outages, AccuWeather warned. 

This tempest volition besides bring the archetypal bout of drenching rainfall to the southeast, mounting the signifier for flash flooding and terrible thunderstorms in the little Mississippi Valley. 

The 2nd tempest volition besides instrumentality signifier Tuesday, dumping snow crossed the Rockies and the Plains done Wednesday greeting earlier moving into the Midwest and Northeast wherever it volition proceed to rage done aboriginal Thursday. 

This tempest volition deed hardest successful a corridor that stretches from Denver, Colorado to Caribou, Maine, the Washington Post reported. 

Snowfall totals of 2 to 4 oregon 4 to 8 inches volition dispersed crossed 19 states successful the Mountain West, the Midwest and the Northeast. 

That includes parts of Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

In the heavy south, terrible thunderstorms could make from Wednesday day done aboriginal Thursday successful Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, with a imaginable hazard for tornadoes arsenic well. 

By the clip this 2nd tempest wraps up Thursday, the 3rd volition already beryllium barreling into the West Coast earlier spreading eastward from Friday done the weekend. 

Meteorologists are inactive moving to measure the storm's astir probable impacts. 

Based connected what they cognize truthful far, an atmospheric stream could bring rainfall dense capable to origin flooding and 'life-threatening' debris flows successful parts of Southern California Thursday, according to the NWS presumption successful Los Angeles. 

Rain volition proceed to autumn successful Coastal California into Friday portion snowfall begins falling successful the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Intermountain West.  

Friday evening into Saturday, the tempest volition determination eastbound into the Plains and Midwest and perchance dispersed snowfall from Kansas to Michigan. 

It volition support trekking on its eastward way Saturday evening into Sunday, erstwhile the Northeast tin expect much snowfall and crystal arsenic well. 

In summation to the snow, this 3rd tempest volition resistance a enactment of beardown to terrible thunderstorms and dense rainfall done the southbound implicit the weekend, raising the hazard of flash flooding, beardown upwind gusts and imaginable tornadoes. 

Even aft this parade of storms ends this weekend, a 4th wintertime tempest could instrumentality spot adjacent week and bring adjacent much snowfall to the Northeast, meteorologists warn.

But with conscionable 19 days near of meteorological winter, the upwind should statesman to calm down aft that tempest strategy moves offshore.