First major U.S. storm of 2015 to deliver 'variety of hazardous weather'

The week of January 5, 2015 was said to be the start of the first huge storm in the U.S. The storm was headed for Texas and was expected to bring everything from snow to even tornadoes. West Texas was going to get heavy flurries on the 3rd, almost 6 inches. Over 50 million people took advisories for the storm on that Saturday.

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"A swath of wintry precipitation is forecast from the Plains to the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic on Saturday, while severe storms and heavy rain are possible in parts of the Gulf Coast into the mid-South," the service added.

More than half the country is to be whipsawed by a front moving up from the Gulf on Saturday and then by another down from Canada on Sunday, the service said.

A Saturday storm is expected to deliver rain and thunderstorms from the lower Mississippi Valley to the Northeast. That moisture is expected to translate to snow in the upper Great Lakes and the Northeast. On Sunday, that rain is projected to intensify to a heavy downfall over the Mid-Atlantic coast and southern New England, the service said.