Another potential winter storm is increasingly likely to impact the middle of the country toward the end of the week ahead. Here's what we know:
Tuesday night, snow, sleet and freezing rain are expected to become widespread from the Rockies into the Plains and parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes.
Eventually, this mess will spread into the Northeast later Wednesday, but snow, sleet and ice may be confined to parts of the interior Northeast and northern New England as warmer air pumping in on southerly winds may change precipitation to rain in southern New England and the mid-Atlantic, including areas affected by Winter Storm Kenan this weekend.
However, the potential for heavy snow accumulations is in play from the Central Plains into the Midwest and northern New England, including Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit.Accumulating sleet or ice is also possible in parts of this zone from Oklahoma and Texas to the Great Lakes and northern New England.In the rest of the Northeast, rain and melting snowpack could lead to at least some minor nuisance flooding.