Por el meteorólogo jefe de CNN, Brandon Miller

Una gran tormenta invernal, una de las más extremas y extensas en años, comienza a formarse sobre las Llanuras y afectará a gran parte de Estados Unidos.

Durante los próximos días, la tormenta dejará hasta 30 centímetros de nieve y enormes cantidades de hielo en un área que abarca 3.200 kilómetros desde Texas hasta Nueva Inglaterra.

Aquí te decimos qué puedes esperar en algunas de las principales ciudades en la tryectoria de la tormenta. Todas las horas están en horario del este.

Dallas recibirá principalmente hielo de esta tormenta, aunque experimentará todo tipo de precipitaciones durante las próximas 48 horas, incluyendo lluvia, hielo y aguanieve.

La lluvia esporádica de este viernes se convertirá en lluvia helada y hielo alrededor de la medianoche, que continuará de manera intermitente hasta la mañana del domingo. Podrían caer entre 2,5 y 5 centímetros de nieve el domingo por la mañana.

¿Cuándo caerán las precipitaciones?

• Lluvia: viernes 9 a. m. – sábado 12 a. m.
• Lluvia helada: sábado 12 a. m. – domingo 6 a. m.
• Nieve: domingo 6 a. m. – domingo 12 a. m.

Momento de mayor impacto:

• Lluvia helada: sábado 3 a. m. – domingo 3 a. m.
• Nieve: domingo 6 a. m. – 10 a. m.

Totales de la tormenta:

• Hielo: 0,63 – 1,27 centímetros
• Nieve: 2,5 – 7,6 centímetros

Ciudades como Memphis, que están entre la amplia huella de nieve y hielo de la tormenta, probablemente alternarán entre ambas a medida que cambian las temperaturas tanto a nivel del suelo como en las capas superiores de la atmósfera.

Es probable que la nieve comenzará a caer el sábado por la mañana, antes de convertirse en aguanieve y lluvia helada el sábado por la tarde. La lluvia helada continuará y se mantendrá intermitente hasta el domingo por la tarde, antes de que vuelva rápidamente a la nieve con la llegada del aire más frío.

¿Cuándo caerá la precipitación?

• Nieve: sábado 4 a. m. – sábado 2 p. m.; domingo 12 p. m. – 3 p. m.
• Lluvia helada: sábado 4 p. m. – domingo 12 p. m.

Momento de mayor impacto:

• Lluvia helada: sábado 4 p. m. – domingo 8 a. m.
• Nieve: sábado 6 a. m. a 12 p. m.

Totales de la tormenta:

• Hielo: 0,26 a 1,9 centímetros
• Nieve y aguanieve: 5 – 10 centímetros

Atlanta también está en el límite entre los tipos de precipitación, pero entre lluvia y lluvia helada en lugar de hielo y nieve. Es posible que la lluvia ligera del sábado se convierta en lluvia helada el sábado por la noche y hasta la mañana del domingo.

El aire más cálido debería transformarse en lluvia el domingo por la tarde antes de que el aire realmente frío entre el lunes por la mañana.

¿Cuándo caerán las precipitaciones?

• Lluvia: sábado 8 a. m. – 10 p.m.; domingo 10 a. m. – domingo 10 p. m.
• Lluvia helada: sábado 10 p. m. – domingo 10 a. m.

Momento de mayor impacto:

• Lluvia helada: sábado 10 p. m. – domingo 10 a. m.

Totales de la tormenta:

• Hielo: 0,2 – 0,7 centímetros

Si te gusta la nieve, Louisville será uno de los grandes ganadores en esta tormenta.
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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - Temperatures will be in the mid 60s this weekend as we clear out from storm clouds.

Fog and drizzle is possible Saturday morning for the southern end of our region.

We will clear Sunday through Tuesday thanks to offshore winds.

High pressure is making a return to the west coast helping us to warm up into the high 60s and low 70s late next week.

The only outlier is a cool and wet system coming to northern California on Wednesday and Thursday that may increase our clouds, cause cooling or drizzle.

After that, a stronger warmup is likely for the weekend of Jan 31-Feb 1 with 80s possible.

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GoodRx, a platform for medication savings, is tracking prescription fills for medications that treat seasonal viral respiratory infections. The tracker includes fills for:

• Tamiflu (oseltamivir) for influenza
• Paxlovid and molnupiravir for COVID-19
• Antibiotics, such as amoxicillin, for secondary bacterial infections associated with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and whooping cough

Key takeaways:

• These fills give insight into rates of infections and how they’re being treated.
• Tamiflu fills typically peak between December and February. A jump in fills before December may indicate an early flu season. High fills in late spring could signal an extended flu season.
• Paxlovid and molnupiravir fills may spike during the late summer and winter, mirroring the back-to-school season’s impact on COVID-19 transmission.
• Fills for pediatric antibiotics associated with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and whooping cough typically peak during the fall and winter, with return-to-school schedules.
• Coverage for COVID-19, flu, and RSV vaccines remains high across insurance types but varies by channel. Commercial plans generally have more people lacking coverage than Medicare and Medicaid, which offer broader, no-cost access. Cash prices also vary for those paying out of pocket, highlighting ongoing affordability challenges.

Why track treatment fills?

Fall and winter are the height of cold and flu season. During these months, the viruses that cause common respiratory infections, such as influenza, coronavirus, and RSV, spread widely. In many cases, these infections don’t cause serious illness. But they can be deadly for children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems.

Typically, the CDC actively monitors these viruses through tools such as the FluView for influenza, the COVID-19 Data Tracker, and the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Surveillance system. These tools help Americans understand the risk of contracting these viruses. But they don’t indicate how people are treating these infections.

To this end, GoodRx Research has developed several tracking tools to monitor prescription fills for medications that treat these respiratory infections and provide insights into:

• Whether Americans are taking (or not taking) FDA-approved treatments for the flu, COVID-19, or secondary bacterial infections associated with RSV and whooping cough
• Whether healthcare professionals are prescribing these medications at r

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High-profile return-to-office mandates at companies like JPMorgan Chase and Microsoft dominated headlines in 2025, but a new job report shows that remote work continues to play an important role in the modern labor market. Toptal’s High-Skilled Job Report for Q4 2025 found that demand for experienced remote and hybrid technology and professional services personnel is actually slightly stronger than that for comparable in-office positions.

The report found that global demand for these remote and hybrid professionals increased by 19.8% in Q4 2025 versus Q4 2024. Looking at the entire year, demand increased 10.9% in 2025 versus 2024. Meanwhile, demand for similar professionals across all work models, including remote, hybrid, and in-office roles, increased by slightly smaller magnitudes (19.4% for Q4 2025 versus Q4 2024 and 10.4% for full-year 2025 versus 2024).

The difference in the trends is very small, but still worth noting, according to the report. For remote and hybrid roles to exceed the blended average, in-office roles must be lagging behind, pulling down the overall figure.

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Quarter-over-quarter data tells a similar story. Demand for remote and hybrid talent declined by 4%, a typical late-year contraction; however, the broader experienced market, which includes in-office roles, showed a slightly larger decline of 4.7%.

Remote Work Is Finding Its Level

Five years after the height of COVID-19 pandemic disruption, data suggests that distributed work has settled into a more stable phase. The report notes that office occupancy in major U.S. markets has recovered from its pandemic lows but remains well below 2019 levels. This points to an emerging equilibrium between remote, hybrid, and in-office work in which companies have begun to pinpoint when in-person collaboration is essential and when work can be done remotely.

This shift mirrors the adoption of AI, in which companies’ early experiments have evolved into strategic combinations of technology and human insight. Together, these changes point to a more deliberate approach to the future of work. Having tested remote policies and AI tools for several years, companies are now making clearer choices about where work happens and how technology supports it. They are increasingly implementing AI-driven tools and in-person work into the parts of the workflow where they add the most value.