An arctic blast is headed for the eastern US. How cold will it get?
Forecasters warned that a severe cold front was expected in the central and eastern United States starting Nov. 10, and record-breaking cold weather was possible.
“A cold outbreak will spread to the United States this weekend, bringing the coldest air of the season to the Midwest and Northeast, with a widespread freeze across the Deep South, with some record lows as far south as Florida,” he said. Weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Erdman in the online forecast.
“By next week, temperatures in many places will be more like mid-December or even Christmas time.” AccuWeather meteorologist Paul Pastelok said:.
Open X, Weather Trader meteorologist Ryan Maue He called it “historical cold” that “reminds me of Siberia!”
How cold will it be? The map shows common minimum temperatures in the 20s.
“A series of consecutive cold fronts will move southward across the central and eastern United States, ushering in a cold and dry Arctic air mass.” The Weather Prediction Center said in an online forecast:.
Erdman said fall will have the coldest daytime temperatures yet in much of the Midwest, South and East.
Low temperatures predicted for next Tuesday, November 11, 2025, indicate that below-freezing temperatures are common as far south as the Gulf Coast.
The coldest temperatures are forecast to be in the northern Plains and upper Midwest, where high temperatures will struggle to get above freezing and lows will perhaps be in the single digits through the weekend, the Weather Prediction Center said.
In general, temperatures are predicted to fall 10-20 degrees below average; Low temperatures below freezing are expected across the southern Plains and Southeast on Sunday and Monday nights.
southern freeze
Freezing temperatures and frost are possible even on the Gulf Coast on Monday night, November 10th.
“The coldest morning for the Southeast will be Tuesday morning, with lows in the 20s becoming widespread inland and lows in the 30s becoming widespread inland along the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana coasts,” Pastelok said. he said.
“Temperatures will be low enough to cause widespread frost or hard frost across the interior Southeast,” he added.
“This could flirt with record lows on Veterans Day (Tuesday) in more than a dozen locations in the Southeast, including Savannah, Georgia (31 degrees), Mobile, Alabama (31 degrees) and Ft. Myers, Florida (45 degrees),” Erdman said.
AccuWeather advised that residents should take precautions to protect outdoor plumbing and irrigation systems that are not winterized. The cold will also bring an end to the growing season for areas that have not yet experienced a hard freeze, ranging from parts of the Central Plains to much of the Southeast.
Is there snow in the weather forecast?
With the cold weather, the possibility of snowfall in the northern parts will also increase.
Colder conditions will increase the potential for snow accumulation in parts of the Midwest and Appalachians, further south and at lower elevations than normal. AccuWeather said.
“Some major metropolitan areas and heavily traveled highway corridors could collect light accumulations and potentially create slippery roads and hazardous travel conditions early next week,” AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said. Potentially affected cities include Chicago and Detroit.
He also said that cold air movement over the warm waters of the Great Lakes will release lake-effect rain and wet snow. “Where snow bands have formed and lingered, several inches of accumulation and slippery travel are possible Sunday through Monday and perhaps into Tuesday off Lakes Erie and Ontario.”
This article first appeared on USA TODAY: Winter weather forecast map shows freezing temperatures for Eastern US
