blizzard wantings. that means we will see heavy snow, gusts up to 50 miles per hour, plus, and blowing out snow on top of that so it will lead to very messy driving conditions. you are not going to be able to be on the road overnight tonight and into tomorrow in the areas you saw shaded in red. the wind gusts, 50 miles per hour, shaded in the dark blue, kansas city, des moines, and even chicago on thursday evening, and detroit as well, and friend bay, so it will cripple travel wednesday and thursday, friday it moves across the eastern states but there is the snow accumulation, a white christmas for a lot of folks. the bad news is we have to get through the blizzard conditions so 6 to 12 and maybe 18 of snow and friday across the interior sections of the northeast. shepard: and dixie is getting it bad. guest: the warm side of the storm could give us hail and damaging wind and tornadoes across the mississippi river