The Mississippi River Valley is in danger: A tornado-like storm forecast for the week of December 5th through the end of December, with further forecasts from the Storm Prediction Center

The storm is expected to bring relief to those in need in the Mississippi River Valley area, where excessive rain is possible Wednesday.

The risk for tornadoes, hail, and straight line winds from eastern Texas into northern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi is forecast by the Storm Prediction Center.

Most coastal communities will pick up 1 to 3 inches of rain through the weekend, and some areas of northern and central California could receive 3 to 5 inches of rain in total. The main issues will be coastal erosion and flooded roads.

Winds will also be a concern for California, with gusts of up to 40 mph in the valleys, 50 mph for coastal areas, and potentially even higher gusts forecast for exposed coastal headlands, mountaintops, and ridges.

“We’re not expecting a quick burst of snowfall here,” Wills said in a Monday evening update. He said that snow is going to accumulate to the highest level in northern Nebraska, and it will be blowing around like crazy because of the strong winds.

Some areas will be hard to travel to if the roads are slick and the weather is whiteout. There will be power losses due to very strong winds.

“While tornadoes in December are relatively uncommon when compared to the springtime, they are often more likely across portions of the Southeast and Lower Mississippi Valley, where there is often a secondary peak in the fall and winter,” Matthew Elliott, a meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center, told CNN.

The storm could hit Oklahoma and northern Texas Monday night, then move across the state into Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi on Tuesday.

As the event approaches and smaller-scale trends become more evident, the details regarding the areas most at risk from tornadoes will become clearer.

Twin Bridges received 36 inches of snow during the December 1st Snowfall and 24 hours of High Snowfall in Tahoe Donner, South Dakota

In 48 hours, Twin Bridges received 48 inches of snow and in the next 48 hours 46 inches fell in the area of Tahoe Donner.

There are winter storm warnings in effect for the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, where there is a chance of snow before 4 a.m.

The South Dakota Department of Transportation warned that roads in the state could be closed due to the bad weather.

“The snowpack is about 225% of normal, so it’s more than twice what we’d be expecting this time in December,” said Mark Deutschendorf, forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Reno.

The Christmas season looks a lot like it is out here. It stuck to everything because it didn’t come with a lot of wind. It’s like a picture postcard.”

The snow totals so far have been impressive, butDeutschendorf says he is cautiously optimistic about the precipitation helping the state in its effort to get out of its dry spell.

The ski resort wrote on its website Sunday that it was “buried” in the thick snow in Olympic Valley.

“This is definitely a storm to remember. We’ve now received 7.5 feet of snow since December 1st. Plus, in just 24 hours from Saturday morning to Sunday morning, we received more than 35 inches of snow — the 6th largest snowfall total in 24 hours that we have on record,” resort operators wrote.

Statewide Weather Warnings from Minnesota and Midwest for the First 24 Hours after a High-Speed, Unrelenting Winter Storm on Tuesday and Thursday

The National Weather Service office in Rapid City, South Dakota, said travel through the area will be nearly impossible Tuesday and Wednesday, and possibly into Thursday.

In Minnesota, the National Weather Service issued various winter weather alerts, including a winter storm warning, an ice storm warning and a winter weather advisory. The Minnesota Department of Transportation said in a tweet Monday, “Challenging winter weather could impact travel statewide all week.”

In Anchorage, Alaska, an “unprecedented amount of snowfall” has led to schools being closed for four days and shut down the University of Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University on Monday.

These areas need the moisture and have seen great relief to drought conditions in the past week. Tennessee, for example, went from 96% of the state under drought to being at 46% this week.

Major cities including New York and Boston can expect 1-2 inches of rain over the weekend before a storm system pushes away on Sunday.

The governor of New York warned people to avoid the roads as the storm is threatening to cause dangerous travel conditions in the Northeast.

“We urge everyone in the impacted regions to avoid unnecessary travel tonight and tomorrow,” Hochul said in a Thursday statement. “Work from home if possible, stay off the roads, and make sure you and your loved ones remain vigilant.”

In neighboring Pennsylvania, state transportation officials implored drivers to avoid unnecessary travel due to the low visibility caused by wind and heavy snow.

The unrelenting storm system has cut a dangerous cross-country path since the beginning of week, bringing varying combinations of severe weather to different parts of the US.

The storm inflicted a slew of tornadoes in the South and blizzard conditions in the Upper Midwest, leaving about 100,000 homes and businesses in the dark across Minnesota, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Virginia as well as Pennsylvania of early Friday, according to Poweroutage.us.

Since Tuesday, dozens of tornadoes have been reported across several states. Three people were killed by the storms in Louisiana.

The Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia and Maryland reported a quarter inch of ice, while a tenth of an inch was reported in parts of Virginia.

The polar air arrives as an earlier storm system gradually winds down in the Northeastern U.S. after burying parts of the region under two feet of snow. More than 80,000 customers in New England were still without power on Sunday morning, according to poweroutage.us.

The First Day of Cold Weather in the Big Blast: A Mother and Son Died During a Mobile Home Park Destruction in Farmerville, Louisiana

A mother and her son were killed in Louisiana on Tuesday when their home was destroyed by a tornado.

The National Weather Service says that an F2 tornado with 140 mph winds traveled through the town of Farmerville. The tornado damaged the apartment complex and demolished parts of the mobile home park, but at least 20 people were injured.

The coldest air of the season – by far – will dive down from Canada, bringing dangerously cold temperatures to millions this week. It may take as little as 5 minutes to start to lose elasticity on exposed skin due to the sub-zero temperatures.

The Weather Prediction Center predicted that today’s highs would be below zero from eastern Montana to the Upper Mississippi Valley.

The wind chill advisory is still in effect. Five whole days of bitterly cold temperatures to kick start the winter season, and it’s not just for Montana.

The only place where you can get warm this time of year is Florida but only for a few days, because it will cool down by the end of the week.

The cold will go to the Deep South as well. Places including Atlanta could experience one of their top 3 coldest Christmases, with the high expected to only reach 33 degrees.

Some Floridians will see a much more sudden drop. Pensacola’s high temperature of 64 on Thursday will seem downright tropical compared to the high of 38 just 24 hours later. The overnight low temperatures are expected to drop below freezing.

“As cold as it will likely be, it will be difficult to challenge daily record lows/cold highs due to this event overlapping with portions of the historic 1983 and 1989 cold waves. The temperatures in the East could end up being the lowest for December in a long time.

The National Weather Service says southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana will suffer from “extreme and long term freezing conditions” because of the incoming cold front.

Ice fishing will continue through the cold blast, since the temperatures won’t scare away anglers there — “not the hard-core ones anyway,” said Jason Mundel, who runs the Ripp’n Lipps Guide Service in northeastern Montana.

There was a coyote contest going on in a nearby community despite the cold weather. “They are bundled up, just out in the cold,” he said.

A man who died of a suspected case of hyperpovolemia in Atlanta, Georgia, visited by a friend during a snowstorm

He went to Atlanta to check on a woman with severe mental health issues, who had died of a suspected case ofHypovolemia just hours earlier. He said the woman’s body was found by the Greyhound bus station in downtown Atlanta.

He said people without housing who die in freezing weather often do so because they are battling alcohol, drugs or severe mental illness, or they do not trust others and find themselves on the streets rather than a shelter with other people.

“This was a heavy, wet snow so that had impacts on both travel and the infrastructure,” said Frank Pereira, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Police across New England responded to hundreds of crashes or vehicles sliding off the road this weekend. Maine State Police said Saturday night they had responded to more than 180 crashes since Friday evening. There were no serious injuries.

Vermont officials are searching for locations to set up warming centers in the hardest hit areas. Some customers may not have their power restored for two to three days.

“Last night we had some people come in who weren’t able to cook for themselves, and so we definitely made sure that we had room for them,” Becket Gourlay, a host at the Waterhouse Restaurant in Peterborough, N.H., said on Sunday. “Even today we had some people who came in to watch the final match for the World Cup because their TVs were out.”

CNN Weather Brief: Blizzard Conditions and the High Temperature on Christmas Day In Indianapolis and the Warmest Temperature in the Windy City

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Blizzard conditions occur when you have falling or blowing snow combined with winds of at least 35 mph leading to reduced visibility to at least a quarter of a mile for at least three hours.

Power outages will also be a concern for the Windy City as winds could gust as high as 50 mph on Friday. The storm will only get worse as the wind chill will plummet to at least 20 degrees below zero.

The high on Christmas Day in Chicago is 12. That would make it the frigidest Christmas in the city since 1996. Indianapolis’s forecast high is 13 degrees, which would be their warmest Christmas since 1985 with a temperature of 40 degrees.

There is snow and ice covering almost the entire area of the northern hemisphere. The freezer is located up there in the Arctic polar regions, according to the prediction center. The cold air can hold onto those qualities due to the fact that there’s a lot of snow on the ground.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/19/weather/christmas-week-forecast-cold-snow-wxn/index.html

The Nashville and Memphis Clebsch Christmas Day Storms and Forecasts for New England and Central Asia, and the First White Christmas in the United States

“The bottom line is travel will be very dangerous and could be LIFE-THREATENING later this week so be prepared to alter travel plans now!” The weather service said so.

Nashville and Memphis will also drop below freezing on Friday. It will feel like 3 degrees below zero on Friday when the temperature in Nashville is only 16. They’ll only hit 26 on Christmas Day. Memphis could see their coldest Christmas since 1985 with a forecast high of 28.

The storm will bomb out Friday night into Saturday morning, making this a bomb cyclone before entering the Northeast and New England. The pressure drops in a bomb cyclone in 24 hours.

“I-95 gets a slug of pretty deep rain and that can be a problem in those areas that are now seeing snow,” Carbin said. “You can see some runoff melting, maybe even some flooding.”

This major storm is upping the chances of a white Christmas for millions across the country. The areas were already given because of the cold temperatures and the snow on the ground.

“The probability is normally about 10% that the DC area will have at least one inch of snow on Christmas Day,” Carbin explained. “With the pattern coming together the way it is, I’d be willing to bump that up to a 30% chance and it could increase pretty substantially here in the next couple of days, depending on what scenario comes out.”