Blizzard conditions will likely develop from the northern Great Plains to the Great Lakes region this weekend and into the first of the week. Below are preliminary snowfall amounts. I will have updates this evening.

I'm going to cover the stupid, bad and the humorous before beginning forecasting for the Texas snow storm.  The Stupid Whose bright idea was it to use a WEA message to tell people the roads are bad and to stay home?!! WEA ("wireless emergency alerts") are supposed to be, and are promoted as, strictly for life-threatening situations. See below. To BLAST everyone with that obnoxious tone more than 24 hours after the storm began is not  life saving -- it was old news. I would be much more empathetic had they done this during the mid-morning Sunday before the winds really came up; that would have helped prevent people from getting on the roads. But, at our home, we had 2.5' drifts across our driveway when the WEA alert came -- we couldn't go anywhere if we wanted to. The above is just one of the many comments on Twitter/X. I didn't see any that thought it was a good idea.  My original fear, which has been amply validated, was that WEA would morph from life-saving...