Starting Friday, the storm—called Fern by some—intensifies with 1-3 inches of ice in the South like Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, 6-12 inches of snow in the Appalachians and Midwest, plus sleet everywhere. An arctic blast follows Sunday, dropping temps below zero in the Plains and Midwest with wind chills to -30°F, even chilling Florida enough for school closures. Panic buying empties Walmart shelves in places like Kentucky, natural gas prices surge 75%, and officials urge stocking supplies, dripping faucets and avoiding travel to brace for outages and exploding trees from extreme cold.
Stay safe and indoors if possible!
It's all fear porn these days. I used to watch The Weather Channel on occasion. They'd give a forecast then show some cool weather related show and that was it. Now they just tell us we're all gonna die and the world is ending.
Ironically the founder of the Weather Channel has famously called global warming the biggest hoax ever perpetrated
kek I didn't know that but it tracks