Heavy snow, blizzards, extreme cold and damaging winds are likely to create hazardous conditions stretching from Montana east to Maine, and Texas north to Pennsylvania, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
A mixture of snow, ice, rain and strong winds swept across most of the US amid a warning of an intense cyclone. A winter storm, fueled by the impact of a 'bomb cyclone', is expected to impact the upper parts of the US.
Heavy snow, blizzards, extreme cold and damaging winds are likely to create hazardous conditions stretching from Montana east to Maine, and Texas north to Pennsylvania, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
A 'bomb cyclone' or bombogenesis is a rapidly deepening area of low pressure that creates harsh weather conditions, the report added.
"A low-pressure system is rapidly developing over the Mid-Mississippi Valley along an Arctic front as the incoming frigid air from Canada mingles with the anomalous warm airmass that has settled across the Central/Southern US for many days," it added.
The big storm in the Great Lakes will slowly move into eastern Canada later on Monday. "But the huge circulation of the system will continue to spread very strong and gusty winds into the entire eastern US with snow lingering especially downwind from the lower Great Lakes," it added.
"Rain showers should taper off or end as light snow across Maine by Tuesday morning behind the cold front," the NWS said.
The impact could range from heavy snow and blizzard conditions across the upper Midwest to the Great Lakes, to freezing rain across New England, thunderstorms through the eastern US and the South, as well as widespread blustery winds to locally damaging winds in these areas.
"By Monday morning, a mix of snow sleet and freezing rain will likely impact northern New England before warmer air changes the wintry mix to all rain later on Monday," the NWS said.
It added that across the central Great Lakes, wind-swept rain and embedded thunderstorms are forecast to turn into a blizzard by early on Monday with blowing snow.
"Snowfall amounts are expected to well exceed a foot across the upper Great Lakes, particularly along the south shore of Lake Superior where two feet of snow is possible together with whiteout conditions at the height of the storm," the NWS said.
The Arctic cold front sweeping south was expected to bring a drastic end to the warmth on Sunday as a quick round of strong thunderstorms signalled the arrival of the "Blue Norther".