(CNN) — Weather conditions across America may give a good many of us an excuse to stay indoors until Friday.

A blanket of white could fall on most of the United States and some of Canada this week, while violent thunderstorms roll in off of the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to flood parts of the Deep South.

A winter storm plastering Kansas and Nebraska is expanding, the National Weather Service says. It is expected to fling heavy snow as far as the mountain states Wednesday before reaching east into the Midwest Thursday.

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