New: Arctic Blast to Come in Waves, Final Cold Front Could See Snow in the Florida Panhandle

The central and eastern portions of the United States are expected to face multiple unforgiving fronts of Arctic air in the coming weeks.

Each cold front will move progressively more to the south, eventually bringing cold air from the Arctic deep into the southern United States, according to meteorologists at AccuWeather.

The cold fronts will last through the middle of January, at some points impacting over 250 million people across 40 states.

“This could end up being the coldest January since 2011 for the U.S. as a whole,” AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Expert Paul Pastelok said in the report.

“The combination of lingering neutral sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, warm water in the northern Pacific, and an atmospheric traffic jam will induce multiple rounds

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