Another shot of cold air will follow a fast-moving storm forecast to sweep from the Midwest to the East during the second half of the week.
People from the Midwest to the East will need an array of outdoor gear into next week.
Before the chill hits, temperatures will moderate during the first part of the week over much of the eastern half of the nation.
Conditions will be favorable for storm cleanup early this week around the Chicago Lakefront and at midweek in northern New England. Waves washed over Lake Shore Drive in Chicago following a blast of snow on Halloween. Record snow amounts buried
New England as the same storm pushed off the coast and ramped up. The milder air will also make raking leaves a little less painful from the Midwest to the Appalachians and Northeast.
The storm later this week will not be as strong as the system that hit the Midwest and East this past weekend. However, it will bring spotty rain and snow to parts of the northern Plains Wednesday then the Great Lakes on Thursday.
In the wake of the storm, winds will kick up, bringing in a quick dose of cold air and localized lake-effect snow to parts of the Upper Midwest.
Winds with the cold shot will not be as intense and more from the west in the wake of the storm around the Great Lakes. The southeastern shoreline of Lake Michigan will be hit with wave action, rather than Chicago during this round. The northwest flow will bring more lake-effect flurries and snow areas farther east over the Midwest when compared to this past weekend.
Comment: Coleman was a member of the American Meteorological Society. He says he left the organization after he disagreed with its stance on global warming and climate change. He went on to call global warming, "the greatest scam in history".