Winter Storm Kitara’s steady downpour of slushy snow on the Northeast is increasingly being seen as sure to bring a significant impact on two votes key to the House GOP both inside in outside DC.

On Long Island, freelance local investigative journo Jacqueline Sweet reports that turnout in Tuesday’s New York 3rd special election between Dem former Congressman Tom Suozzi and MAGA Mazi Pilip is, per sources, “nothing”: An estimated quarter of the 2022 turnout in the Queens portion of the district, even lower in Nassau County. Accuweather forecasts the snow will abate by 3pm EDT after accumulating a total 2 to 4 inches, but warns “slushy areas and standing water will freeze” as the temperature drops after Kitara passes. Prooooobably not ideal for the candidate running with the party whose base are by and and large unremittingly hostile to early and mail-in voting.

In DC, CNN’s Manu Raju reports that Kitara is also throwing plans for a second shot at impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas into disarray, with Raju writing that it all “hinges on the potential absences in the chamber, per sources. Due to snow impacting regions of the US, and the fact that it’s a fly-in day, members in both parties could miss the vote – impacting the outcome.” Raju adds that leadership will hold a vote on another matter first to gauge absences, but if they can’t seal the deal on Tuesday then they may never, as a Suozzi victory will put them one vote shy of the circa 215 votes needed to impeach Mayorkas (if Suozzi can be sworn back in quickly).

Like The Weather Channel does of its own initiative for no discernible purpose whatsoever, National Zero’s editors refer to winter storms that hit the NYC area by non-canonical names of our own choosing – such as “Kitara.” Those Weather Channel assclowns are calling this one “Lorraine,” lol.