Strong winds and dry conditions will drive critical to extreme fire weather in the Southern Plains, especially in eastern New Mexico and western Texas. Meanwhile, heavy mountain snow will continue in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin. A major winter storm moving into the Central U.S. will bring blizzard conditions, severe storms, and flash flooding concerns through midweek from Wyoming and Colorado to the East.
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January is closing out with no shortage of winter weather. Frigid temperatures will dominate the eastern U.S. for the rest of the week as another round of arctic air spills southward starting Friday. The cold could break more records as far south as Florida. Meanwhile, forecasters are closely tracking a potentially significant East Coast winter storm this weekend that could bring heavy snow, strong winds, and coastal flooding from the Carolinas to New England. Out West, a soggy pattern continues in the Pacific Northwest, with rounds of rain and mountain snow.