At 8 p.m. Saturday in Kansas City, the Chiefs will play the Miami Dolphins in dangerously frigid weather. The National Weather Service in Kansas City predicted a wind chill of -10 to -35 degrees and a struggle to reach above zero.
By dusk at Arrowhead Stadium, AccuWeather predicts -5 degrees but feels like -23 with wind gusts up to 30 mph Andy Reid, Chiefs coach, warned the club can't rely on opponents' cold weather struggles.
The weather service predicted 20–40% below-normal temperatures across the Rockies and Northwestern states during the following four days due to a cold air mass.
Forecasters expect chilly air to hit northern Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Kansas. You can't count on it. That's where you get in problems," Reid told AP. “No snowball fight.” The cold will follow the storm system that will strengthen in the Great Plains later Thursday and bring heavy snow to the mid-Mississippi Valley through the week. At least 4 inches of snow is expected from eastern Nebraska to southern Michigan.
AccuWeather predicts blizzards in the Midwest and Great Lakes late this week, affecting Chicago, Milwaukee, and Kansas City. According to meteorologist Ryan Maue on social media, this next storm could become a rare overland "bomb cyclone" with tremendous winds, massive blizzards, and sub-zero temperatures.
Another storm system for same states Starting later Thursday through the weekend, another big winter storm is anticipated to dump snow, rain, and dangerously low temperatures in the same areas already recovering from the devastating tornado and flooding system earlier this week.
The weather agency warned of thunderstorms and tornadoes again through late Friday evening in the South and Southeast. Rain should be less problematic up the East Coast than earlier this week. Flooding is possible in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast with 1 to 2 inches more.
Last Tuesday, tornadoes threw mobile homes and destroyed trees in the South, killing five people. The Midwest saw record-breaking snowfall. On Wednesday, 95-mph winds and rain caused floods up the coast and into New England.