It will be wet on the coasts for New Year’s Eve, and an atmospheric river will target California
California is preparing for two days of severe weather, heavy snow, and possible flooding in the next few weeks: A tornado warning, damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes
Californians are preparing for severe storms, heavy snow, and possible flooding, as parts of the upper Midwest and Northeast recover from the winter storm system.
Parts of California could pick up as much two to three inches of rain, and up to three feet of snow through Wednesday, which could lead to travel headaches around some of the most densely populated areas.
There is a chance of tornadoes, damaging winds and hail in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana on Monday. The storms will last through the night and begin in the afternoon.
From southern Indiana, through Kentucky and Tennessee and into northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia, there were tornados, tornadoes and large hail. The region has an increased risk for severe storms that could be more widespread and intense.
Heavy snow already hit some of these areas over the past two days – including, as of early Thursday, more than 40 inches in parts of southern Wyoming; up to 32 inches in northwestern Montana; and generally 3-6 inches across Nebraska and the Dakotas.
The Sierra Nevada is expecting up to 3 feet of snow, which will create hazardous conditions, with a chance of tree damage and white out conditions.
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The California Highway Patrol said on social media, “the roads are extremely slick so let’s all work together to slow down so we can keep I-80 open.” Several other highways, including State Route 50, also reopened.
“Snow totals are looking to be 1-2 feet with some of the higher elevations seeing 3 feet or more leading to significant travel impacts,” the weather service office in Sacramento said.
“It looks a lot like Christmas out here,” Deutschendorf said. “It didn’t come with a lot of wind, and it stuck to everything. It’s like a picture postcard.”
While he noted the snow totals so far are impressive, Deutschendorf said he is “cautiously optimistic” about this precipitation putting a big dent in the state’s drought.
“We’re Buried,” the Palisades Tahoe Ski Resort wrote on its website Sunday, sharing photos of thick snow covering the ski resort in Olympic Valley, California.
Kihara told CNN that they had never seen much snow up here. We woke up to it. It picked up a lot overnight, but started yesterday. Lots of trees are falling and all the roads around us are closed. Power is out and has been mostly gone since Tuesday.”
This weekend’s forecast comes as about 60,000 homes and businesses in California are still in the dark from a deadly storm system that over the past two days whipped up damaging winds, dangerously heavy rainfall and heavy snow in much of the state as well as southern Oregon. Before that, a New Year’s weekend storm system also had produced flooding.
The atmospheric rivers on the west coast bring sorely needed rain and snowfall to the mountains when there is a warm-weather dry spell.
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More than 50 million people were put under winter weather advisories in the morning from the West all the way to the Great Lakes and New York. That storm is part of a series of storms that have left one million homes and businesses in Michigan and other parts of the Midwest without power.
Winds on Tuesday whipped above 100 mph in some cities, reaching Category 2 hurricane levels. There were two wind gusts of 104mph in North Bonneville, Washington and in Mount Hood, Oregon. In Walker, California, the wind speed was reported to be 90 mph.
The weather service in San Francisco stated that it won’t take much to bring trees down due to the saturated conditions and weakened trees from the last event.
“The consecutive dry summers that we’ve had, especially the heat events like the heat dome, that really damages trees and it takes up so much of their energy to fuel their immune systems to fight off pathogens,” Bourgeois said.
Portland recorded 2.12 inches of rain, breaking the old record of 1.08 inches set on December 26, 1996. The previous day was the third-rainiest December day on record.
The region can expect widespread rainfall of 2 to 4 inches Saturday, likely leading to flooding problems in areas south and east of Los Angeles, the prediction center added.
“Approximately 44% of the U.S. is at risk for flooding this spring,” said Ed Clark, director of NOAA’s National Water Center. There is a heightened likelihood of spring floods because of California’s historic snowpack and spring rain.
The National Weather Service in Los Angeles says say goodbye to the warmth. Between today and tomorrow there will be big drop in temperatures. The approaching storm system will cause 15-20 degrees of cooling.
“Periods of rain and snow will continue into the afternoon and evening,” the NWS office in Sacramento said, adding that people could see isolated thunderstorms.
California is lucky to have some breaks in between the storm cycles. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the weather in the west may turn off come April.
In New York City and Washington, DC, New Year’s Eve celebrations are likely to be not go well. It’s expected that Los Angeles will be wet on new year’s eve.
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“Tuesday is probably the day where you’ll likely need to keep a really close eye on the weather as the potential for widespread flooding of rivers, creeks, streams and roadway and urban flooding will be at its highest during the next week as all the runoff and heavy precipitation comes together resulting in a mess,” the weather service office in Sacramento said.
Rain will also fall in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, adding to the melting snow and prompting localized flood concerns as the city continues to recover from its deadly blizzard. There will be more rain early next week.
The Weather Prediction Center said areas that are already high in soilMoisture, burn scars and urban areas are highlighted in the slight risk area.
An eastbound stretch of Interstate-70 in Colorado reopened Thursday after a nine-hour closure left drivers stranded amid bouts of heavy mountain snow, widespread rain and gusty winds.
Among those killed due to weather were at least three Kentuckians, Gov. Andy Beshear confirmed Friday afternoon. A fourth death in Kentucky was reported in Lexington after a tree fell onto a vehicle, killing a 41-year-old woman, the Fayette County coroner’s office tells CNN – one of at least four deaths in the US related to fallen trees.
The rain was falling in Southern California. The area will start to dry out on New Year’s Day and no rains are expected during the Rose Parade in Pasadena.
Most of the 178,000 homes and businesses in California that were without power was in the north, according to Power Outage. The US.
In the day before, the flood waters forced some people to leave their homes in Wilton and three other communities in Santa Cruz County.
Last week, San Francisco experienced its wettest 10-day period on record for downtown since 1871. They have gotten more than a foot of rain since December 1, and the forecast calls for up to 5 inches of rain in the next five days.
US Highway 101 – one of California’s most famous routes – was also temporarily closed in both directions in South San Francisco Saturday with the California Highway Patrol reporting “water is not receding due to non-stop rainfall & high tides preventing the water to displace.”
Weather service meteorologist Courtney Carpenter said the storm could drop over an inch of rain in the Sacramento area before moving south. One ski resort south of Lake Tahoe closed chair lifts because of flooding and operational problems, and posted a photo on Twitter showing one lift tower and its empty chairs surrounded by water.
The map is based on the number of inches of precipitation that fell in the 24 hours, from less than an inch in some parts to more than 5 inches in the Sierra foothills.
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The police department posted photos of a flooded underpass and a car that was stuck in the water.
The face of dry weather is changing. It’s easier to get into a dry year, because we have a hot summer and a growing appetite for water.
Humboldt County, where a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck on Dec. 20, also saw roadways begin to flood, according to the National Weather Service’s Eureka office. A bridge that was temporarily closed last week due to earthquake damage may be closed again if the Eel River, which it crosses, gets too high, officials said.
In the midst of rain and snow, much of California will have highs in the 50s on Tuesday with some places possibly tying or breaking daily records for lowest high temperatures.
“Strong winds could cause tree damage and lead to power outages and high waves on Lake Tahoe may capsize small vessels,” the weather service in Reno said.
On the Sierra’s eastern front, flood watches and warnings were issued into the weekend north and south of Reno, Nevada, where minor to moderate flooding was forecast along some rivers and streams.
The weather service says as much as 3 to 4 FEET of snow could be piled on top of already buried communities in the Sierra Nevada and Southern California mountains.
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Cars were submerged in the flood waters of Highway 99 and the Dillard Street area in a CNN affiliate video. Chris Schamber, a fire captain, told the station that there were many people who had been rescued.
With no rain expected in Pasadena for Monday’s Rose Parade, spectators started getting ready for the event.
The weather service predicts thunder and lightning in Northern California and southwest Oregon on Friday evening, with the heaviest rain falling along the coastal ranges.
At least three people have died in the coast-to-coast storms. The firefighter died after coming into contact with a power line, while the pedestrian was killed by a snowplow. Authorities in Portland, Oregon, said a person died of hypothermia.
The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District says that the area was particularly hard hit, with emergency crews spending the weekend rescue multiple flood victims and respond to fallen trees and vehicles in the flood waters.
Then came more flooding worries after the community of Point Pleasant was told to leave on Sunday, saying it was imminent and would become incredibly dangerous after sunset.
“It is expected that the flooding from the Cosumnes River and the Mokelumne River is moving southwest toward I-5 and could reach these areas in the middle of the night,” the agency tweeted.
The situation in Northern California might get worse before it gets better, warns the forecasters.
The worry was that heavy rain and snow could worsen conditions for communities still flooded from the previous atmospheric river that pummeled the state – and ended just days ago.
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Around 40,800 electricity accounts were without power in California as of midday Monday, with another 20,000 without power in Nevada.
On New Year’s Eve, Mary Spencer-Gode and other people in the area watched a giant elm tree fall on their street.
“The wind was just going crazy,” she told Capital Public Radio. “We turned our TV off so we could hear it, and I was sitting in the kitchen, I heard a big ‘woosh’ and kind of the house moved.”
It’s a narrow area of high humidity that gets moved away from the tropics towards the higher latitudes, so before a cold front arrives it’s just a narrow area.
Most of the precipitation in West Coast states occurs during the colder season, when atmospheric rivers are the main source of precipitation.
The precipitation can be extreme: A single atmospheric river “can carry more water than the Mississippi River at its mouth,” as NPR has reported. The systems’ winds are dangerous according toforecasters. In Calaveras Big Trees State Park, one of the storms destroyed the “Pioneer Cabin Tree” sequoia.
It is also a concern that strong winds are present. According to the weather service, gusts of up to 80 mph are strong enough to down trees and power lines from central California coast to Southern California.
The NWS office in Sacramento said the atmospheric river may bring between 2 and 3 inches of rain to the Central Valley on Wednesday. In addition, a strong low-level jet stream will bring wind gusts of 35-50 mph in the valley and foothills, with winds hitting 60 mph in the mountains.
Even if there is a few clouds, the forecaster for NBC Los Angeles warns that the storm isn’t over and that the rainiest period could happen this morning.
“With the heavy rain expected, and already very wet soils in place, there will be an increased risk for rock/mudslide activity in the local mountains and canyon roadways,” the weather service in Los Angeles said.
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The storm became a bomb cyclone Wednesday, after it rapidly strengthened while still offshore. Within 24 hours, a bomb cyclone is able to increase in pressure. atmospheric pressure is measured with the help of a unit used to measure limbars.
“Impacts to infrastructure include but are not limited to; river flooding, mudslides, power outages & snow load,” the prediction center said in a tweet.
As wells run dry and reservoirs drain, Julie Kalansky, a climate scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, said these storms are desperately needed more than ever to alleviate the drought, despite the hazards they bring in some areas.
“As much as folks feel like it’s been an unrelenting winter, we actually have gotten some at least weeklong breaks and, in some cases, multi-weeklong breaks in between these sequences,” he said. “Had we had this winter and everything that happened back-to-back without any breaks during the storm cycles at all, the level of flooding and the level of damage in California would be dramatically higher.”
There was a study that found that climate change will increase the likelihood of a megaflood in California in the next four decades.
As the snowpack melts in the coming months, it’s expected to further improve drought conditions across much of the western US, according to NOAA. But, that could also mean more floods.
“We anticipate that this may be one of the most challenging and impactful series of storms to touch down in California in the last five years,” said Nancy Ward, the new director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, at a late-morning news conference about the threat.
People in areas covered by the weather experts are warned that they should prepare for potential power failures and be on the lookout for fallen trees and power lines.
The region is already saturated from a storm over the weekend which caused deadly floods and could bring more rain over the next few days.
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The Gov. of California declared a statewide emergency earlier in the day so that aid could be spread quickly for those affected by the storm.
State officials said that as the storm marched towards California there were firefighters and rescue equipment near burn scar areas in seven counties.
In the town of Montecito in Santa Barbara County, there was a mudslide in the summer of last year which killed 23 people, splintering more than 100 homes and rupturing a gas main.
Das Williams is the first district supervisor in Santa Barbara County. “If you live in that red zone, the one thing that we should’ve learned these past five years is that it’s better to play it safe and to evacuate and comply with the order.”
Officials in Monterey County also started setting up evacuation points and emergency shelters ahead of the storm’s arrival, according to the sheriff’s Facebook page.
The Department of Transportation says that the road from Ragged Point to south of Big Sur has been closed in both directions because of rock slides.
Mayor Breed said that floods are inevitable and that San Francisco was under a flood warning.
San Francisco firefighters said they saved the family from a tree on top of a car.
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And earlier in the day, there were reports of falling glass from a downtown high rise in Fox Plaza, though no injuries were reported. “It is unknown at this time if this is wind-related – highly possible though,” the San Francisco Fire Department said in a tweet.
Across the bay, Oakland city officials declared a local emergency Wednesday, bracing for storm damage on Oakland roads, flooding and potential threats to public safety.
At some point during the day Tuesday, most of the state of California had been put under a weather alert, which included a brief tornado warning in Ventura County.
Trees and power lines have been toppled, knocking out electricity and blocking roads and highways. In San Francisco, a tree fell directly on a car, briefly trapping a family inside (more on that below).
The vice president of the Bay Area region of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company said that many crews are staged around the region to help in the response.
However, the storm is expected to saturate roads and down trees which may make it difficult for crews to access areas experiencing outages, Johnson said.
“This is definitely going to be ranked up there with one of the storms that I’m going to remember,” Ashley Helmetag, a meteorologist, said in a Facebook video on PG&E’s page.
The National Weather Service used the term “potent Pineapple Express” to describe the intense weather that was brought on by a “potent river” of low pressure.
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In downtown San Francisco, winds snapped a mature landscaping tree off at its base and dropped it onto a Honda sedan, trapping a family in their car next to the San Francisco Public Library’s main branch. Firefighters who used chainsaws to rescue the family reported that the occupants were OK.
“Fallen trees are everywhere in the Bay Area with this current storm,” BART stated, noting that trees had taken down power lines used by trains.
A young child died when a tree fell on a home in Sonoma County in Northern California, according to a Volunteer Fire Department Chief.
Excessive rain proved deadly Wednesday when a 19-year-old woman died after crashing her car into a utility pole on a partially flooded road in Northern California, the Fairfield Police Department said. Police explained that the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit a patch of standing water before crashing into a utility pole.
In many areas, emergency officials are urging people to stay off the roads. There were power lines, trees and other debris on the roads. Whiteout conditions have caused some highways to close at higher altitudes.
Officials in California’s Santa Cruz County are seeing “significant damage” from the storm, adding that enormous waves and high tides have damaged piers along the coastline.
In Sausalito, rough conditions dislodged the city’s landmark bronze sea lion sculpture from its base; officials say it “is still attached by several bolts” and can be repaired.
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It is said that the Meteorologists call it the “storm parade” because we have a series of atmospheric rivers back to back. “That’s really what’s happening right now: We’re looking at having another series of big storms this weekend, and even into next week.”
After much of California was lashed with heavy rain and damaging winds Wednesday and Thursday that flooded roads, toppled trees and knocked out power to most across the state, daytime Friday will bring some relief before another storm moves in at night.
In nearby San Francisco, some saw localized flooding, mudslides and sinkholes as of Wednesday evening, said Mary Ellen Carol, executive director of the city’s emergency management department.
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Even a 40 mph wind can do damage when the ground is so saturated from record rainfall earlier this week and the cumulative effect of the new rainfall expected this weekend.
The weekend rains brought renewed flood worries for local streams, creeks, and rivers. The Colgan Creek, Berryessa Creek, Mark West Creek, Green Valley Creek, and the Cosumnes River all have gauges that are currently above flood stage or expected to be in the next few days.
El Niño and La Niña forecast patterns put out by the Climate Prediction Center give guidelines on what the overall forecast can be during a seasonal time period.
“During a La Niña, typically the Pacific Northwest sees wetter than normal conditions and Southern California sees drier than normal conditions,” Marybeth Arcodia, a postdoctoral researcher at Colorado State University said. The jet stream has a wavier pattern and is being pushed farther north. Is that a thing?
“Atmospheric rivers typically form during the winter months and can occur during El Niños or La Niñas,” Arcodia said, noting their strength, frequency, and landfall location can be influenced by the larger patterns in the Pacific.
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A professor at Columbia University points out that the forecast patterns aren’t meant to be used on a day to day basis but rather for the entire season. This is why researching the patterns is so important.
“There is an element of randomness that is not explained by the patterns,” Tippett told CNN. “This might help us understand why one year is different than the other.”
Michael Anderson, the state’s climatologist, gave a news conference late Saturday in which he said that officials were keeping an eye on 3 other systems farther out in the Pacific.
The underground communications infrastructure of the city is experiencing a lot of power and communication failures as we get more rain.
This has led the prediction center to issue a Level 3 out of 4 risk for excessive rainfall for over 15 million people in the state on Monday including those in San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey, Fresno, and Oxnard. The center wrote in the discussion Sunday that a Level 4 out of 4 notice might be necessary for Monday if the forecast guidance continues to increase rainfall totals.
“Valley areas will likely see gusts as high as 45-50 mph, with gusts greater than 60 mph possible in wind prone areas,” the weather service office in Reno said. The Sierra crest wind gusts will likely be 150+ mph on Monday as the strong subtropical jet moves overhead. remains a big concern, especially for high profile vehicles Monday.”
There is a possibility of snow along the Sierra crest west of Lake Tahoe as the storm moves farther inland. Waves up to 4 feet on Lake Tahoe,” the weather service added.
“Overall, there is high confidence (60-80%) that this wetter-than-normal pattern will continue through the next couple of weeks,” the weather service in San Francisco said. While we don’t have an idea of how much rain will fall, the continuation of saturated soils poses dangers into the third week of January.
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The storm is already showing signs of life along the West Coast, as snow and rain is already falling across the Pacific Northwest, adding to their already blockbuster snow season.
A snowfall rate of up to 2″ an hour and wind speeds of 50 mph could cause blizzards across Wyoming, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Accounting for wind chill, temperatures could drop as low as 30 degrees below zero, making travel treacherous, if not life-threatening.
Snow is falling at heavy rates of 1-2 inches per hour near the Great Lakes, and combining with 40-50 mph winds. That will drive significant impacts that will include major disruptions to travel, infrastructure, livestock and recreation,” the NWS wrote.
The New York City metro area also fell in the storm’s path but saw lower snowfall totals. Central Park got more than one inch of snow. Meteorologists said late Tuesday morning that precipitation in the metro area was starting to transition from frozen to liquid.
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Dozens of record daily highs were reached or tied Wednesday, including 98 degrees in McAllen, Texas, and 87 degrees in Naples, Florida. In Atlanta, Georgia, a record was set for the month of February with 81 degrees, which is the city’s typical average high in mid-May.
If you’re under three feet of snow or basking in the sunshine and record warmth, this week will be all you can ask for.
The governor ordered the state guard, transportation department and state patrol to be prepared to respond to storm impacts.
FlightAware shows that more than 700 flights in the US have been canceled. Among those, Minneapolis tallied more than 300 arriving and departing flight cancellations and Denver had nearly 200 cancellations.
The cancellations come as more than five million people are under ice storm warnings across northeastern Iowa, southern Wisconsin, northwestern Illinois and southern Michigan. More than two million people are under warnings for a storm in the next few days.
The offices of the state executive branch will be closed on Wednesday in more than half of the state, with plans for employees to work from home. Additionally, Interstates 29 and 90 partially closed Tuesday night to prepare for the expected snow.
Eastern Wyoming College announced the closure of its main campus. The Natrona County school district in Casper will conduct a virtual learning day Wednesday due to hazardous weather and road conditions throughout the area, the district said.
Highway Patrol and State Highway Patrol on Twitter notified Monday morning for possible snowfall in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and southern California. Over 40 inches of snow fell on Wednesday morning and dozens of vehicle crashes in Minnesota
The people of the Northern states of the US are hunkering down as they wait for the winter weather to arrive on Wednesday.
In Rhode Island, where Gov. Daniel McKee also warned of a difficult morning commute, all Providence schools were closed Tuesday. Connecticut also announced closures of schools in Hartford as well as all state office buildings as the state readied for a significant snowstorm to come through that could bring heavy snowfall between 5-7 inches and isolated amounts up to 10 inches.
In California, a trailing cold front could send wind speeds as high as 50-60 mph, threatening power lines. In parts of the state’s Central Valley, almost 119,000 homes and businesses were without power on Wednesday morning.
Some parts of the Southeast and mid-Atlantic are projected to see highs in the 70s and 80s on Wednesday as temperatures in Southern California are expected to stay below 50 degrees.
“The forecast temperature gradient from the Mid-Atlantic into New England Thursday is worth noting, as highs in the 80s in Virginia drop to the single digits in northern Maine,” the NWS said in its bulletin.
Crews in Wyoming were in search-and-rescue mode after more than 40 inches of snow fell in the southern parts of the state over the course of several days and motorists were trapped in heavy snow, the state highway patrol said on Twitter.
More than 160 vehicle crashes were reported in Minnesota, and dozens of cars spun off roads, because of the 3-7 inches of precipitation that hit the state over the course of two days. Lt. In a number of posts, Gordon Shank said something.
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The governor of Wisconsin declared a statewide energy emergency because of the weather, which has included snow in the north and freezing rain in the south.
Out west, in an extremely rare event, California’s Los Angeles and Ventura Counties will be under blizzard warnings from Friday morning through Saturday afternoon, the weather said. It was confirmed that the weather service’s Los Angeles office has not issued a free fall warning in more than twenty years.
A dueling winter storm and heat wave meant a temperature difference between the Northern Rockies and the South earlier this week.
Most of the flights were canceled at the international airport in Green Bay on Thursday morning.
• Maine government offices closed: Gov. Janet Mills announced that state offices would be closed Thursday as the storm “is expected to bring significant snowfall to most of the state,” her office said in a release.
Atlanta was 81 degrees on Wednesday, an all-time record in February. Washington, D.C., reached 79 degrees, New Orleans reached 83 degrees and Nashville, Tenn., was 80 degrees on Wednesday.
Just as noteworthy were the unusual warm temperatures seen in Southern and Mid-Atlantic states, the National Weather Service said. On Thursday, both Nashville, Tenn., and Richmond, Va., saw temperatures hit 85 and 83 degrees respectively.
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The National Hurricane Center on Friday warned that there could be storms that could produce sudden waterspouts, powerful enough to “easily overturn boats” in the San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. The two counties are also at risk of seeing small tornadoes on land.
The area of San Jose and other parts of the region have been issued a freeze warning. Unsheltered populations, crops, and outdoor plumbing will be at significant risk from the sub-freezing conditions.
The freezing rain and ice in Michigan was risky for livestock and infrastructure. Port Austin and Midland saw the most snow, with 8 inches and 8.9 inches respectively. According to the National Weather Service, the south of the state had high amounts of ice.
There is a chance that there will be more snow in the area. On Friday, temperatures across the state will be below freezing. The weather is expected to warm up by Sunday.
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travel is not possible with near zero visibility through wednesday morning. Strong winds can cause damage to trees. If you risk travel you could become stranded in vehicles for hours,” the National Weather Service office in Reno said.
In addition to the snow, some Los Angeles-area roads turned into rivers on Friday after bouts of heavy rain, prompting the weather service to issue a flash flood warning.
The Weather Prediction Center forecasts more heavy rain through the weekend as flash flooding continues over the hills west of Los Angeles.
San Diego is also forecast to receive up to 2.5 inches of precipitation, and portions of southwestern California remain in a flood watch through Saturday evening.
Saturday’s rain will hit already soaked grounds, exacerbating impacts of possible flooding as the region faces back-to-back storms this week. The state was ravaged with deadly flooding in late December and early January.
The aftermath of the same weather system that struck California and numerous states spanning the country earlier this week is still affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest.
Nearly 500,000 homes and businesses in Michigan were still in the dark Saturday following a powerful winter storm created dangerous icing conditions, according to tracking site PowerOutage.us. Wayne county had the most power losses at over 150,000.
DTE said it won’t be able to return power to most customers before Sunday and so began restoring it to the areas that were struck by the storm.
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Heavy snow caused Minneapolis to declare a one-day snow emergency Friday and city crews have been plowing and treating streets. The city received more than 13 inches in a three-day period.
In New England, icy conditions may have caused a huge pileup on the Massachusettstoll Thursday night.
“There’s already been reports of 2 to 3 feet (60 to 90 centimeters) across some of the higher peaks, and we’re looking at an additional foot, maybe two, of additional snowfall through the rest of the day,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Zach Taylor.
Flash flooding did hit nearby Ventura County early Saturday, where up to 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain fell, but by 6 a.m. Saturday, the weather service said the heavy rain in both counties had ended and that flooding was no longer a threat.
Brian Wheeler said half an inch of ice weighed down some power lines, which was equivalent to the weight of a baby grand piano.
Allison Rinker uses a borrowed generator to keep her 150-year-old house warm after two nights in the cold and dark.
“We were all surviving, but spirits were low on the second day,” she said. “As soon as the heat came back and we were able to have one or two lights running, it was like a complete flip in attitude.”
“The ice that was falling off the trees as it was melting was hitting our windshield so hard, I was afraid it was going to crack,” she said. “There’s just tree limbs everywhere, half of the trees just falling down. The destruction is insane, that’s right.
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The NWS said the system was expected to bring rain and snow in southern Nevada by Saturday afternoon and across northwest Arizona by Sunday morning.
Yet the cold weather blasting the North and West avoided the southern states, leading to wild temperatures differences. The high temperature for the U.S. on Friday was 93 degrees Fahrenheit (34 degrees Celsius) at Falcon Lake, Texas, while the low was minus-35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.7 Celsius) near Huntley, Montana.
The city experienced its second-heaviest snowfall on record this week, with over 11 inches (30 centimeters) hitting the ground.
Tim Varner had blankets on him in a Portland storefront doorway so that he wouldn’t be exposed to wind, ice and snow. Local officials opened six overnight shelters but the 57-year-old, who has been homeless for two decades, said it was too hard to push a shopping cart containing his belongings to reach one.
“It’s impossible,” he said. “The snow gets built up on the wheels of your cart and then you find slippery spots and can’t get no traction. So you’re stuck.”
There were four inches of rain in Holy Jim Canyon, Lower Silverado Canyon, Costa Mesa and Mount Woodson, as well as more than two inches in Carlsbad Airport.
The storm made for dangerous travel conditions in some areas. In Los Padres National Forest, State Route 33 was closed due to rock slides and erosion from this and previous storms, according to video from the California Department of Transportation.
Kathy Hochul advised residents to prepare for hazardous travel conditions as the state braces for freezing rain, snow and wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour.
Some residents in Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains have been trapped by the snow since last week and they’re now watching their gas stations and grocery stores run low on supplies, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff.
As crews work to create single-lane pathways on roads for first responders, San Bernardino County declared a local emergency Monday to seek state and federal assistance with clearing the snow, officials said.
More than 600 students were trapped at their camps because of the storm, but they were scheduled to go home on Friday. California Highway Patrol escorted the children’s buses down the mountain on Monday so they could reunite with their families, according to an Irvine Unified School District spokeswoman.
“If you plan to travel by road at elevations above 1,000 feet through West Coast states, be prepared for rapidly changing conditions and have winter driving supplies,” the National Weather Service warned.
“Bring chains and know how to use them. Bring an emergency kit that includes warm clothes, snacks and water in case you are delayed. Make sure your vehicle is ready with good tires and working wiper blades,” the Oregon Department of Transportation said.
Oklahoma Storms Shocks and Weather Forecasts for the Southern Plains, and Flood Warnings for South Carolina and the Collin County, Texas, Early Friday
In Oklahoma, the storm ripped roofs off homes, flipped cars, downed trees, littered neighborhoods with debris. So far, as many as twelve people have been reported injured in Oklahoma from the storms.
In total, more than 140 storm reports were made Sunday across the Southern Plains, mainly of wind across Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Several hailstones are said to be 1.75 inches in diameter.
Weather experts will work to determine whether the system can be classified as a derecho, a widespread, long-lived windstorm, which typically causes damage in one direction across a relatively straight path.
Parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island had seen six inches of snow by Tuesday morning, while the Boston area received less than a third of that.
At least 10 people have died in multiple states due to severe weather across the country as a powerful storm system that brought golf ball-sized hail and tornadoes to the South continues to march Friday toward the Northeast.
More than eight million people in southern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, western North and South Carolina, and northern Georgia are under a tornado watch. The watch includes Birmingham in Alabama, Chattanooga and Knoxville in Tennessee, and Cartersville and Carrollton in Georgia.
There are flash flood warnings in parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. The warnings will be in effect through the morning.
About 120,000 people in Texas were still without power early Friday, according to outage tracker PowerOutage.us, including about 8,000 people in metro Dallas-Fort Worth’s Collin County, where winds were strong enough to knock over four 18-wheel semi-trucks, causing portions of a highway to be shut down, police said in a tweet.
More than half the city was initially without power and many homes, businesses and the city hall were damaged as a result of this storm, according to the city’s spokesman.
Many communities that were blanketed with snow have not been able to recover because of the havoc it has wreaked on vital businesses such as grocery stores.
The Lois Barton Accidental Injument in Placer County, Calif., Oct. 26, 2003, 8:00 a.m. CNN
An 80-year-old woman, Lois Barton, died in a “weather-related” incident in Placer County, sheriff’s office spokesperson Angela Musallam told CNN. She did not share the circumstances of the death, though where the incident occurred saw heavy snow and temperatures around freezing on Tuesday, CNN meteorologists said.
A number of structure fires in San Bernardino County seem to be storm related, the county fire department told CNN. The department said the number of fires was normal but did not provide an exact number.
Gas leaks are believed to be responsible for several house fires in the mountain communities, according to Fire Chief Dan Munsey. Many of them are in areas with unpassable roads. Firefighters are responding to homes using snowcats and often drudging in by foot with shovels and hoses and digging hydrants out of the snow to extinguish flames, Munsey said.
San Bernardino County sheriff Shannon Dicus said in a press conference that rescuers are provided with meals ready to eat to help those unable to get food. A convoy with food and other supplies will be escorted up the mountain so that first responders can prepare food distribution points.
The Crestline area has received nearly 100 inches of snow in the last few days. Aerial footage from CNN affiliate KCAL shows neighborhoods with indiscernible streets and homes with snow piled to second-story windows.
The only way to get around is shoveling walkways for emergency exits. He said it would snow again two feet and everyone had been shoveling.
Spectroscopic Evidence for an Unusually High Number of Atmospheric Rivers in the Northern Californian Towns Alpaugh and Allensworth
Thousands were under evacuation orders Sunday in two small central California towns – Alpaugh and Allensworth – as officials worried roads could become impassable and isolate residents, according to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office. The sight that has become common in the flood-hit state this winter season was when first responders from dozens of agencies helped residents evacuate Sunday afternoon.
Brandon Mendonsa is a farmer in Tulare County. “The water is still coming – this is far from being done.”
Many were happy that this winter’s heavy rain was necessary to replenish the state’s badly drained and polluted wells.
“This is an unusually high number of storms this winter in California,” said Daniel Swain, climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles. “No matter how you slice it, no matter how you make these formal definitions, this is unusually many.”
Hecht said this year has already outpaced the state’s average annual number of atmospheric rivers. Many came in a series of storms early in the year.
He said that weak and low-end moderate storms bring beneficial precipitation to the state. Meanwhile, the high-end atmospheric rivers are the big rain and snow producers, which lead to more severe impacts.
“We typically refer to these successive types of atmospheric rivers as ‘AR families,’” Hecht told CNN. “While AR families are not all that uncommon, we don’t see them every year and the stretch of nine we had around the turn of the New Year was a more active family than we typically see.”
Loss of Homes in Carpinteria and Los Alamos Induced by Tropical Storms on Tuesday During a Flash Flood: At least five people are injured, and 24 others are injured
In San Francisco, at least five people were hurt when trees fell on them during the storm on Tuesday, four of which were critically injured, a fire department spokesman said.
The San Francisco International Airport experienced a ground delay on average of four and a half hours due to high winds.
There were 26 homes that were damaged by high winds in the Carpinteria mobile home park. No one was injured but several carports and awnings were damaged, according to a Facebook post from the Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District.
The state transportation department for the region said that there was a lack of visibility. Travelers should consider traveling when conditions are more favorable. Be prepared and stay safe if you have to travel.
While the extreme rainfall has triggered flash flooding, mudslides and caused damage, it has also significantly increased critical state reservoirs including Lakes Shasta and Oroville, which have risen by more than 100 and 180 feet respectively since December.
The El Dorado burn scar is unstable because of the torn soils, explained Yucaipa Fire Chief Grant Malinowski who is part of the operations group.
Every time an atmospheric river menacingly takes aim at the state, firefighters across the state have been stationed around burn scars.
“It’s kind of like almost like fire season right now,” Malinowski said, describing thousands of firefighters and crew members from Cal Fire and the National Guard throughout the state responding to recent storms.
“It’s not like a fire where they can see the fire building and getting closer. This is instantaneous. It doesn’t matter when it happens, it’s too late for you to react.
And performing rescues in mudslides is no easy task – so it’s important for residents to obey evacuation orders, which aren’t made lightly, Malinowski said.
“We understand the gravity of asking people to voluntarily leave their homes, but it’s also weighed with the ability for us to rescue people, knowing that it’s going to be a very difficult – if not impossible – task to get through just tons of tons of dirt and debris where we just literally can’t make access,” Malinowski said.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/weather/california-atmospheric-river-tuesday/index.html
The Snowfall and Levee Breaks in North Dakota During the High-Slope Snowstorms of December 7, 2007, and the Effects on the County Flood Control District
The county said it is activating public works employees for 24-hour snow plowing and storm patrol, having County Flood Control District crews active on split shifts during the storm and adding additional sheriff deputies to routine patrols for the next two weeks.
The family of storms that descended on the state this week only underscored the danger and broke snow records, overtopping levees across the state.
“There’s a cascading chain of impacts,” said Tom Corringham, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. “As you push the rivers harder, as you push the flood protection system harder and harder, you get sort of exponentially increasing impacts. You get catastrophic events when you flood the whole floodplain or levee breaks.
