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Big snowstorm in the Plains

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This satellite photo (click here for big version) shows a tightly wound low pressure system over the central United States that is spinning up an enormous snowstorm in the central Plains and the central and southern Rockies. It promises to snarl air traffic across the nation as the Denver hub airport is brought to a standstill.

For our area, the position of this large storm to the west and northwest of us will only serve to reinforce mild air, as south and southwest winds pulled into the counterclockwise rotating storm pull in warmer air from the subtropics and the Gulf of Mexico. To get us back into anything resembling a winter weather pattern, it's going to take major changes in the overall weather pattern that just don't seem to be anywhere on the horizon, at least through the remaining days of 2006,

Click here for the latest Associated Press report on the blizzard

Latest winter weather forecasts from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center

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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States."

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