Winter Storm 2024 February 2. A strong el niño remains in place. With a stratospheric warming event expected to develop, we currently see a rapid breakdown of the polar vortex and a cold weather pattern change across the united states in the second.

Essentially a winter hurricane, a bomb cyclone occurs when a storm rapidly intensifies, and its central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours. After one more frigid weekend, temperatures are about to spike 30 to 40 degrees, rising above freezing and inducing an abrupt thaw over the ozarks, southern plains and mid.