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Overrunning moisture will meet up with a shallow subfreezing layer at the surface and create a long duration crippling ice storm.

When:
Monday Night (January 31) through early Wednesday (February 2). Peak impacts felt Tuesday.

Cities Potentially Impacted:
Fort Smith | St. Louis| St. Louis | Champaign | Terre Haute | Indianapolis | Columbus | Pittsburgh | New York

Impacts:
Incredible ice accumulation with some towns/cities experiencing as much as an inch of ice. This is destructive and crippling amount of ice which will knock out power to potentially hundreds of thousands of customers for days if not weeks.