NOAA predicts a drier spring for the Southwest and wetter season for the Northwest and Appalachia. Punxsutawney Phil may have signaled six more weeks of winter, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has its own predictions for spring.
The office of the Weather Service in Bismarck, N.D., described the conditions as “life threatening,” cautioning that wind chills in western and central North Dakota could lead to hypothermia. Subzero wind chills are also expected to extend as far south as Texas, Arkansas and western Tennessee and Kentucky.
While Virginia and North Carolina were grappling with a snowstorm, an Arctic blast brought dangerously low temperatures to a vast swath of the U.S.