High-Scale Storms, Tornadoes, and Large Hail Forecast for McCurtain County, Alabama, on Friday and Saturday

A major winter storm with snow and freezing rain in the north and severe storms and tornadoes on the southern end is now threatening more severe weather as it treks east.

At least one person is dead in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, where significant storm damage was reported, according to county emergency manager Cody McDaniel.

Nine twisters formed in Texas, four in Arkansas, and one in Oklahoma, a preliminary count by the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center shows.

The total number will likely increase in the light of day Saturday, and the intensity of each one will not be known until local NWS offices conduct damage surveys, which may take several days.

In neighboring Lamar County, where Paris is the county seat, “there has been quite a bit of damage and some injuries,” Lamar County Constable Travis Rhodes told CNN Friday night.

In Oklahoma, a woman was injured by a falling tree as she was heading to a storm shelter, Lewis Collins, a volunteer at the Choctaw Office of Emergency Management, told CNN. It is not clear if a tornado went through the area.

The risk of tornadoes, large hail, and damaging straight line winds from Texas to northern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi is forecast by the Storm Prediction Center.

A tornado watch is in effect for much of western and southern Alabama until 4 a.m. CST and for parts of Georgia, Florida and Alabama until noon eastern.

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The threat does, however, strengthen as the system heads east Tuesday, likely impacting a large swath of the Lower Mississippi River Valley. There are areas in Louisiana and Mississippi that could get tornadoes, high wind gusts and damaging hail.

The greatest flash flooding threat will be from the lower Mississippi Valley into the central Gulf Coast, Tennessee Valley and southern Appalachians from Tuesday into Wednesday.

The recent arid spell in this area has led to the Mississippi River reaching a record low level and impacting shipping and the supply chain.

“You can see that while the spring months are our busiest time climatologically, there is a secondary increase in tornado activity in November,” the National Weather Service in New Orleans said.

The time of day when a tornado happens has a huge impact on the rate of deaths. Nocturnal tornadoes are more dangerous because many people are asleep and unaware they need to be seeking a safe location. While the greater tornado threat for this particular event exists during the daytime hours, there is still the possibility for a few rotating storms through the evening hours.

Make sure you have a plan in place to deal with severe weather. Know where you will go if severe weather hits, and make sure flashlights work and cell phones are fully charged in case you lose power.

An atmospheric river event, bringing ample amounts of moisture to the West this weekend, will gradually move across the country and bring hazardous weather to millions.

If winds are at least 35 mph and visibility is less than one quarter of a mile for at least three hours, it could result in a full-blown blizzard across the region.

The coastal areas of California are expected to get between 1 to 3 inches of rain over the course of the weekend, while more than 3 inches could fall in some areas. Coastal erosion and flooded roadways will be the main concerns.

California is expected to be affected by winds of up to 40 mph in the valleys, 50 mph in coastal areas, and possibly even higher gusts for exposed coastal headlands and mountaintops.

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Between 6 and 12 inches of snow are forecast in central Pennsylvania northward into interior Upstate New York, which could see 2 feet of snow.

The NWS says that a low visibility will make travelling in snow more dangerous. “Additionally, the strong winds could lead to potential power outages from the Midwest to the Northeast.”

“The details regarding the areas most at risk from tornadoes will become clearer as the event approaches and smaller-scale trends become more evident,” Elliott said.

In California, 48 inches of snow fell in Twin Bridges in a 48-hour period, 46 inches fell in Tahoe-Donner, 45 inches in Donner Peak and 44 inches at Palsades Tahoe Ski Base.

In the high Sierra Nevada, as much as 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow could accumulate into early Sunday. The National Weather Service in Sacramento warned about hazardous driving conditions and posted photos on Twitter showing traffic on snow-covered mountain passes, where vehicles were required to have chains or four-wheel drive.

The storm already made for icy and dangerous conditions on key roadways, with authorities on Saturday closing down a long stretch of Interstate 80, from Colfax in Northern California to Stateline, Nevada, due to “blowing snow & near-zero visibility,” Caltrans said on Twitter.

The first snow survey of the season in the Sierra Nevada Mountains released Tuesday shows the current snowpack is well ahead of average for this time of year, according to a release from the California Department of Water Resources.

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The weather looks a lot like Christmas. “It didn’t come with a lot of wind, and it stuck to everything. It’s like a picture postcard.”

While he was impressed with the snow totals so far,Deutschendorf said he was optimistic that this precipitation would make a big difference in the state’s dry spell.

The ski resort shared photos of thick snow covering the ski resort in Olympic Valley, California on its website on Sunday.

“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.

Travel in the area could be difficult Tuesday and Wednesday, and possibly into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.

The Twin Cities weather service warned residents of the potential for dangerous weather this week and urged them to be cautious.

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.

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These areas need the moisture and have seen great relief to drought conditions in the past week. This week, Tennessee went from over 98% to over 50% of the state being under a dry spell.

Meanwhile, damage was reported in the Oklahoma town of Wayne after the weather service warned of a “confirmed tornado” shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday. Video footage from Oklahoma TV station KOCO showed substantial damage to a home in Wayne, which is about 45 miles (72 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City.

The town of Farmerville had an EF3 tornado with 140 mph winds, according to the National Weather Service. At least 20 people were injured, and the tornado demolished parts of an apartment complex and a mobile home park, Farmerville Police Detective Cade Nolan said.

The tornado reports included six in Illinois on Tuesday and an EF-1 in Jessieville, Arkansas, on Monday. Other tornadoes reports came from Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi.

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There’s no one traveling right now, according to the manager at the Flying J truck stop. He said he got to work before the roads were closed, but likely won’t be able to get back home Tuesday. “I can see to the first poles outside the doors, but I can’t see the rest of the lot right outside. I’ll probably just get a motel room here tonight.”

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety tweeted Monday: “This is a ‘we are not kidding’ kind of storm.” People were urged to stock up on necessities.

A busy week is in the works as a systems moves across the country.

In Utah, snow and frigid temperatures are to blame for a tour bus crash. The bus flipped on its side in Tremonton after the driver lost control, according to the state’s Highway Patrol. The Highway Patrol said 23 passengers were injured, including some seriously.

The storm is causing havoc for holiday travelers across the U.S, with nearly 1,500 flight cancellations so far Saturday morning, according to FlightAware. There were more than 12,000 canceled flights and thousands of delayed flights on Friday.

A young boy was found dead in a wooded area of Pecan Farms where his home was destroyed Tuesday after a tornado hit Four Forts, Louisiana, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Shreveport, Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator said in a statement.

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Over 25 million people are under some sort of severe weather threat in the South, with the risk of severe storms stretching from the Florida Panhandle into far southeast Alabama and parts of Georgia, and along the East Coast into southeastern Virginia.

There was a possible tornado that blew the roof off the city’s service center and left pieces of the roof hanging from powerlines.

Photos sent by the city showed downed power lines on rain-soaked streets, as well as toppled trees, damaged buildings and a semitrailer that appeared to have been tossed around a parking lot.

In Colorado, all roads were closed in the northeast quadrant of the state. The weather in the ranching region could cause problems for animals. Jim Santomaso is a northeast representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association.

National Weather Service meteorologist Melissa Dye in the Twin Cities said this is a “long duration event” with snow, ice and rain through Friday night. Minnesota was expecting a lull Wednesday, followed by a second round of snow.

Plus, major cities, including New York and Boston, can expect 1 to 2 inches of heavy rain from the nor’easter into the weekend before the storm system pulls away from the region Sunday,

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“This is a life-threatening dangerous event,” Hochul said Friday afternoon at a news conference in Albany. “Protect yourselves, protect your families. You should never travel until the roads are open and safe to travel on.

“We urge everyone in the impacted regions to avoid unnecessary travel tonight and tomorrow,” Hochul said in a Thursday statement. If you can, work from home, stay off the roads, and be careful with your loved ones.

The airlines have issued waivers for flights going to airports in the South and Northeast because low visibility can make air travel dangerous when there is 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 massive, deadly winter storm bringing whiteout blizzards, stinging winds and frigid temps well below average to much of the U.S. continues to cause Christmas weekend travel havoc, power outages to hundreds of thousands and warnings from officials about potentially life-threatening conditions.

And in parts of the Mid-Atlantic, the storm brought a quarter inch of ice was reported Thursday morning to the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia and Maryland, and about a tenth of an inch had built up in parts of Virginia.

Powerful winds whirled by blizzard conditions knocked down power lines in the Upper Midwest as temperatures in some areas plummeted to near or below freezing, leaving thousands without proper heating.

A woman and her child were killed in Louisiana when a tornado destroyed their home.

Meanwhile, even southern cities unaccustomed to wintry conditions will get a brittle taste of it this holiday season, with Austin, Houston, Atlanta, and even Orlando at risk of seeing temperatures below freezing beginning midweek.

There are winter weather and wind chill advisories for more than 90 million people. The alert spans across 37 states, dipping as far as the Texas/Mexico border.

Places that are cold will not escape the snow. The cold air will start to affect areas from eastern Montana through the Dakotas. Current wind chills across Montana and the Dakotas are as cold as 50 to 60 degrees below zero and will fall even further after dark Wednesday.

Frostbite is another risk for those trying to brave the cold, the NWS says. Subzero temperatures in some parts of the U.S. this week could lead to frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.

There is a winter storm warning in effect for northeastern Oregon. Total snow and sleet accumulations of up to one inch and ice accumulations of .2 to .4 inches is likely as well as winds gusting to 55 mph. Wind colds as low as zero are possible and it’s possible to get frost damage on exposed skin in less than 30 minutes.

The predicted storm this week will make holiday travel difficult in many places, and people should be prepared to make changes.

Chicago is expected to be hit hardest by a winter storm that is expected to start on Thursday night and last through Friday evening. Holiday travel could be halted for many due to the possibility of a snow storm.

The National Weather Service assured Texas residents this week’s cold temperatures will not cause as much havoc as last year’s winter storms, which knocked out power to millions of people.

Water pipes will be at risk of bursting. A wind chill watch for Amarillo, Texas, is in effect from Wednesday night through Friday afternoon.

The weather service said that pipes will be at risk because of cold temperatures and windy conditions late this week. You should cover pipes and let the water flow.

The NWS has identified the cause as a strong arctic high pressure system that swept down from Canada, and is expected to hit the Southeast on Wednesday and Thursday.

The cold front moved fast, and the temperatures in the Rocky Mountains were at record lows. In nine minutes on Wednesday, the temperature dropped to 30 degrees in Wyoming.

As of Tuesday morning, air travel appeared largely undisturbed by the approaching polar front, with more than 575 delays and 285 cancellations at airports across the U.S., according to the tracking site Flight Aware.

Across the US, 275,856 homes and businesses in the US had no electricity service as of 1 a.m. ET, many of them in Maine and New York, according to PowerOutage.us. Since the start of the storm the number of outages has at times exceeded a million customers.

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The person venturing outside should cover their skin, put on layers and wear dry clothing. But, experts say, the best prevention by far is simply to stay indoors.

Denver will go from a high of 47 on Wednesday to a low of minus 14 on Thursday. That would be the second-coldest day in over three decades, according to the weather service.

The cold temperatures combined with the wind chill will make travelers and people who work outside vulnerable, according to the National Weather Service.

“Overall, concern continues to increase in the quick development of dangerous conditions Thursday afternoon with potentially significant impacts to the evening peak travel window,” warned the weather service office in Chicago.

Monday: Freezing rain and sleet is likely to begin Monday morning from parts of Texas to the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, while a mass of cold air delivers temperatures up to 30 degrees below average from the central High Plains to the Upper Midwest. Meanwhile, snow is expected in parts of the Central Appalachians and showers are forecast for parts of the Lower Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio Valleys, as well as parts of the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.

As it treks east across the country, the storm is expected to become a “bomb cyclone,” a rapidly strengthening storm which drops 24 millibars of pressure within 24 hours. The storm was forecast to have the same pressure as a Category 2 hurricane as it moved into the Great Lakes.

The storm is expected to reach thepressure equivalent of a Category 3 Hurricane as it enters the Great Lakes, with the weather service describing the strength of the low as a “once-in-a-generation” event.

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There are cases in which snow totals may not tell the whole story. Even small snow amounts, when combined with very strong wind gusts and plummeting temperatures, can cause poor visibility and slick spots on roads. The sudden arrival of these conditions can increase the danger,” the weather service explained.

Jackson and Birmingham will both spend more than 80 hours below freezing between Friday and Monday. Between Thursday and Saturday, Houston could be below freezing for 46 hours.

The National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center said weekend “temperatures will be 25 to 35 degrees below average from east of the Rockies to the Appalachians.”

Kemp declared a state of emergency on Wednesday due to the impending low temperatures and wind chills that will be belowzero by midday on Friday.

Propane can be delivered for both commercial and residential needs if a declaration is made, the governor told reporters.

The governor of Kentucky has declared a state of emergency, with the temperature expected to plunge to minus 10 to minus 26 degrees on Saturday and wind gusts expected to reach up to 50 mph. Residents were asked to stay off the roads and have a backup heat source.

President Biden said the weather alert was a very serious one when he spoke to reporters on Thursday morning. “This is not like a snow day when you were a kid. This is not something that is trivial.

“The grid is ready and reliable,” said Peter Lake, chairman of the state’s Public Utility Commission, in a Wednesday news conference. “We expect to have sufficient generation to meet demand throughout this entire winter weather event.”

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The city’s major airports, O’Hare and Midway, are the hub for major airlines, and they were working around the clock to keep flights moving.

“These hard-working individuals will have at their disposal more than 350 pieces of snow removal equipment, more than 400,000 gallons of liquid deicer for runways and taxiways, and more than 5,000 tons of salt,” said Andrew Velasquez, the city’s deputy aviation commissioner.

Several area shelters had added beds this week; still, many reported being at or near capacity. Some people sought refuge on the city’s streetcar that was operating after crews had worked all day to clear the route and platforms.

“The library is closed. Pete said that he would probably get kicked out if he went into a parking garage, but didn’t give his last name. “There’s not much you can do.”

“Even though this is kind of a worse winter than we’ve seen in the last few years, it’s nothing new to Montana. We have been running cattle for a long time so we know how to deal with these kinds of situations.

Hank Willemsma, a rancher near Dillon, where Thursday’s high temperature was expected to reach minus 13 degrees, said he’d be working through the cold to keep hay out for his cattle.

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Reporting from Bruce Konviser, WPLN’s Paige Pfleger and Blake Farmer, NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly and David Schaper and the Associated Press was used in this report.

There were hundreds of miles of road closure and flight cancelations growing fast as all modes of travel were disrupted. In New York, flooding along the Long Island Rail Road forced part of the Long Beach branch to temporarily shut down.

“Christmas is canceled,” said Mick Saunders, a Buffalo, New York, resident who was two hours into blizzard conditions that are expected to last through Sunday morning. It was agreed by all family and friends that it was safer this way.

Eight people have died in Ohio as a result of weather-related accidents, including four who died in a Saturday morning crash when a semi tractor-trailer crossed the median and hit an SUV and a pickup.

In Kansas City, one person died after losing control of their Dodge Caravan on icy roads Thursday afternoon, according to the Kansas City Police Department. The car went down the embankment over the wall and then plunged into the creek, police said.

The National Weather Service says its watch warning graphic depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings.

“I called it a kitchen sink storm because it is throwing everything at us but the kitchen sink,” Hochul said at a press conference Friday afternoon. Everything that mother nature could unleash on us this weekend was inflicted on us.

The storm was living up to the warnings at Brian Trzeciak’s home. The airport in Buffalo reported no visibility after noon on Friday.

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“My mother lives about 30 minutes away and so does my sister and her family, in the other direction,” he said. We always get together for Christmas Eve and Christmas, but we aren’t going to be together again until Monday.

Much of Florida will experience the peak of their cold on Christmas Day. It will be coldest Christmas Day since 1983 for Miami, Tampa, Orlando and West Palm Beach.

Nearly 5,300 Friday flights have already been canceled as of 7:30 p.m. ET, after nearly 2,700 cancellations on Thursday, according to flight tracking site FlightAware.

• It will remain very cold: Friday will bring record-low temperatures in large swaths of the US, including from the Lower Mississippi Valley, northeastward into the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys and stretching across large sections of the east from the Southeast, through the Southern to Central Appalachians and into the mid-Atlantic, according to the National Weather Service.

• Whiteout conditions: Blizzard conditions may exist even if snowfall stops, because high winds can pick up snow already on the ground and cause low visibility.

The runways were closed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport because of the ice, causing nearly half of the flights there to be canceled. All Sound Transit express services in Seattle were suspended Friday because of the icy conditions.

At least six people were reportedly killed in vehicle crashes, with at least four dead in a massive pileup on the Ohio Turnpike involving about 50 vehicles.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority has asked local utilities to reduce their electricity use due to the power grid’s inability to deal with the cold. Customers in Nashville will experience 10-minute outages every few hours, until the power load stabilizes.

The problem with getting the power back on is that it’s difficult in weather like this.

“Sometimes accessing these areas can be really challenging with downed power lines, with downed trees, with very icy roads. … Crews cannot go up in bucket trucks if the wind is higher than 35 miles an hour,” Aaronson said. “And so those combination of things will limit the ability of crews to get out there and get the power back on.”

High winds and heavy rains caused flooding in New Jersey that reached 9 feet along the coast. The interior locations along the Hudson River were flooded.

A lot of people are going to miss connecting flights because of this, so that’s unfortunate.

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New York City saw cold weather on Christmas Eve, with record low temperatures at several locations. The December 24 high at Central Park was 15 degrees, the second-Coldest December 24 in at least 150 years, according to the National Weather Service.

At least 22 deaths have been attributed to dangerous weather conditions since Wednesday, and some residents in the Northeast are spending the holiday without sufficient heat or hot water as extremely cold temperatures persist.

A power grid operator for at least 13 states in the country’s eastern half asked customers to conserve power and set thermostats lower than usual from early Saturday to 10 a.m. on Sunday because usage was straining capacity.

The operator, PJM Interconnection, serves about 65 million people in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, and warned rolling blackouts could happen if the strain becomes too much.

The US Department of Energy declared an emergency Friday due to a shortage of electricity in Texas, allowing the provider to exceed environmental emissions standards until energy usage drops.

There is a loss of water pressure for residents because of a water main break in Jackson, Mississippi.

On Christmas eve, crews are working to restore pressure to residents while braving the cold. The release stated that their sacrifice goes unrecognized, but is appreciated by the administration and every resident who is affected.

In New York’s Erie County – which is seeing blistering blizzard conditions – about 500 motorists found themselves stranded in their vehicles Friday night into Saturday morning, despite a county driving ban put in place during the storm, according to County Executive Mark Poloncarz.

Poloncarz said that the National Guard were called in to help rescue people that were stuck in cars, and to give rides to medical workers so they wouldn’t have to work anymore.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/25/weather/christmas-arctic-winter-storm-power-outages-sunday/index.html

Sacramento Municipal Utility District of Sacramento (WA) had two deaths due to a low pressure atmospheric river storm in the weekend before Christmas and into Monday night

In Seattle, Washington, online videos have documented cars sliding on the icy roads and bumping into each and residents slipping as they walked on sidewalks, CNN affiliate KOMO reported.

Hochul said to reporters Saturday that she would be asking the federal government for a declaration of emergency so that she could get reimbursements for the overtime she and other state workers had to work. “We’ve deployed individuals – the utility crews have come but also making sure that we have all the vehicles we need.”

Erie County had three storm-related deaths. Emergency medical personnel could not get to their homes in time for medical emergencies, which led to two deaths on Friday night. Details about the third death, confirmed by a county spokesperson Saturday afternoon, weren’t immediately available.

“The loss of two lives in Buffalo – storm related – because people were not able to get to medical attention, is again a crisis situation that unfolds before your eyes and you realize that lifesaving ambulances and emergency medical personnel cannot get to people during a blizzard situation,” Hochul added.

Police in Colorado Springs, Colorado, reported two deaths due to the cold since Thursday, one of which was near a transformer and the other in an alleyway.

The storm system is forecast to gradually weaken as it lifts into southeastern Canada, moving slowly during the next couple of days and pulling arctic air from Canada down into much of the eastern side of the country.

The conditions across the eastern two-thirds of the nation won’t get better until Christmas Day, but the blast will start to moderate by Monday.

The cold air in the Great Lakes will cause lake-effect snows and conditions to get less intense.

By Christmas night into Monday, another low pressure system coming from the Pacific will deliver the next surge of moisture toward the Pacific Northwest and then into northern California, according to the Weather Service.

The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Some roads were closed due to rock slides and flooding.

A Sacramento Municipal Utility District online map showed more than 153,000 customers were affected by power outages on Saturday. The utility said on the social media site that it was preparing more resources while working to restore power.

The state transportation agency reported numerous road closures, including Highway 70 east of Chico, which was partially closed by a slide, and the northbound side of Highway 49, east of Sacramento, which was closed because of flooding. In El Dorado County, east of Sacramento, a stretch of Highway 50 was closed because of flooding.

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On Saturday, San Francisco received over five inches of rain, making it the second-wettest day in the city’s history. It could threaten the nearly three-decade old record if rain keeps falling.

The California Highway Patrol said a section of U.S. 101 — one of the state’s main traffic arteries — was closed indefinitely south of San Francisco because of flooding. The stairs in Oakland turned into a waterfall as a result of heavy rains, while mud-colored water streamed along San Francisco streets.

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 Sacramento agency released a map of 24-hour precipitation through Saturday morning, showing a wide range of totals in the region, from less than an inch (2.54 centimeters) in some areas to more than 5 inches (12.7 centimeters) in the Sierra foothills.

The police department posted photos of the flooded railroad underpass and car that was stuck in the water.

The rain was welcomed in drought-parched California, but much more precipitation is needed to make a significant difference. California has had the driest three years on record.

A flood watch was in effect across much of Northern California through New Year’s Eve. Officials warned that rivers and streams could overflow and urged residents to get sandbags ready.

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.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1146502063/atmospheric-river-california-rain-snow

Record-breaking rainfall on Memphis and Jackson, breaking records for high temperatures in the East Coast, Washington D.C., and Las Vegas, Nevada

There will be several storms over the next week. The current system is expected to be warm, and next week’s storms will be cooler.

The weather service in Reno stated that strong winds and high waves on Lake Tahoe may cause small vessels to capsize.

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.

Cities including Tallahassee, Albany, Charlotte, Virginia Beach, Atlanta, Raleigh and Norfolk could see winds and tornadoes. There is a chance of flash flooding in parts of Mississippi.

Memphis and Jackson got record-breaking rain on Tuesday. Memphis received 3.84 inches, smashing its previous daily record of 2.13 inches set in 1949. Jackson got a new daily record of 1.69 inches on Tuesday.

The outbreak of weather was caused by an extremely warm and moist air mass over the East Coast and Southeast. Over 35 daily high temperature records were broken across the Eastern US on Tuesday, with the thermometer hitting 81 degrees in Baton Rouge, 77 degrees in Wilmington and 69 degrees in Washington D.C.

Multiple buildings in Arkansas were damaged after trees and power lines fell on monday afternoon, with the National Weather Service advising that freezing rain may be possible on Monday evening

Multiple buildings of a school in Arkansas were damaged after trees and power lines fell, according to the Garland County Sheriff’s Office.

“The school was currently in session at the time, however all students have been accounted for and reports of no injury,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a release.

“The best thing is my husband and I are alive. Sylvia Hester was with her husband next to their damaged home when she spoke to the station.

Damage reports were also coming from northern Louisiana, where several transmission highline towers were damaged in the Haile community in Marion. One of the towers was knocked over and several others are damaged, according to the National Weather Service in Shreveport.

In Jackson Parish, Louisiana, residents were told to stay off the roads Monday as the severe weather toppled trees and powerlines, and covered roadways with water.

The state recently received a lot of rain that left soils susceptible to flooding, and the Weather Service said that was because of the saturated soils.

A ice storm warning goes into effect in Memphis on Monday evening. The warning is expected to last through Wednesday afternoon and travel could be “nearly impossible,” the warning states

There is a chance of freezing rain in Austin on Monday. Icing will be possible mainly late at night through mid-morning, when temperatures will be coldest. Dallas is also expected to see significant icing from one-tenth to a quarter of an inch.

In Oklahoma, deteriorating travel conditions were expected to begin Monday morning as sleet and freezing rain moved into the area, according to the weather service office in Norman.

The weather service office in Lincoln warned of icy roads, sidewalks, and parking lots as freezing rain moved into central Illinois. If heading out tonight, forecasters said to use caution.

While the exact cause of the collision it is not known, excessive blowing snow and winds kept visibility down when it happened – even at times when no new snow was falling. The areas along the I-80 saw between 1 and 5 inches of snow, while isolated areas along the highway saw even higher totals.