Heavy snowfall is forecast in the cities of Minneapolis, Chicago and Buffalo, New York, US next week. Cleveland may even see snowfall every day.
This year's December winter weather pattern, partially triggered by La Nina, is expected to lead to many rapidly moving snowstorms in the northern part of the Great Lakes, the Midwest and the Northeast region of the US throughout the week.
The meteorological winter, which officially began on December 1, has recorded a snowstorm sweeping across the United States, leading to many heavy snowfall.
US weather forecasters said a high pressure zone covering the northwest Pacific will increase in intensity over the weekend and act as a ribbon to push moisture from the Pacific over.
This moist air mass encountered a strong cold air mass from Canada, causing many small, fast-moving snowstorms, called clippers.
According to the FOX Weather Forecast Center, the first clipper issued in the northern part of Dai Binh Nguyen, the Midwest and the Ohio Valley from the night of December 6.
Because the snow storm system is moving very quickly, the amount of snow falling in the Midwest is expected to fluctuate around 7-12cm by the end of December 8.
To date, Chicago has recorded an average of 23cm more snowfall than at the same time each year and has not seen such a large start-to-year snowfall since 2018.
On December 9, another small snowstorm is forecast to form in southern Canada and move down the Upper Midwest.
Although the path and intensity of this snowstorm are still fluctuating, forecast models show that this will continue to be a rapidly moving snowstorm system.
A new cold front from Canada is expected to sweep across the area in the middle of next week, leading to continued snowfall.
As the cold air mass stabilizes, the third fastest moving snowstorm system could sweep across on December 11 and 12, continuing to affect part of the Midwest.
US weather forecasters predict that next week, the cities most likely to record snow accumulation include Minneapolis, Chicago and Buffalo.
