The Southern Hemisphere Hurricane Prepares for a Heavy Snowfall in the Mississippi River Valley over the Next Few Days and Two Months

Though the storm is walloping some areas with severe weather, it’s forecast to track across drought-stricken areas, bringing much needed relief – including to the Mississippi River Valley area, where excessive rainfall is possible Wednesday.

Heavy snow will fall inland. It goes up all the way up into the interior of New England. The higher altitudes could see a couple of inches of snow.

Some areas of northern and central California could see up to five inches of rain, depending on how much rain goes down through the weekend. The main concerns are 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.

This system will bring 5 to 9 inches of snow to the region, with the highest amounts just north and west of the Twin Cities. While snow will steadily fall across the region, the high winds won’t kick in until Thursday.

“This system will have increasingly widespread impacts to travel going into the busy holiday travel time late this week, along with the potential for power outages from the expected high winds, heavy snows, significant icing and overall increased power consumption in places,” NWS said Friday.

December Storm Matthew Elliott: Forecasts, Warnings and Precipitation Warnings for Stateline, Nevada, from Northern California, to State Line, Nevada

“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.

Farther south, tornadoes, strong winds, hail and flash flooding were expected Tuesday with eastern Texas, much of Louisiana and western Mississippi at greatest risk for severe storms. The severe weather threat continues into Wednesday for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.

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

The storm blanketed some mountain areas of drought-parched California with thick snow, including Soda Springs in the northern part of the state, which received 60 inches of snow in 48 hours.

Winter storm warnings were in effect for the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and there was a chance of additional snowfall before the sun rises.

The storm already made for icy and dangerous conditions on the roads, causing authorities to close a long stretch of I-80 from Northern California to Stateline, Nevada on Saturday due to blowing snow.

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

He noted that the snow totals so far are impressive, and he was cautiously optimistic that this precipitation will put a big dent in the state’s dry spell.

On the Snowfall of December 1st, “We’re Buried” in the Anchorage, Alaskan, Ski Resort and the University of Alaska Anchorage

The ski resort posted photos on its website of thick snow in the area, saying, “We’re Buried.”

This storm is definitely going to be remembered. Since December 1st, we have received 7.5 feet of snow. In 24 hours we received more than 35 inches of snow, which was the 6th largest total on record.

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.

On a day when millions of Americans were expected to be traveling for the winter holidays, a massive cold weather system marched across most of the contiguous United States, bringing record-breaking cold, gusty winds and dangerous precipitation to states from Montana to Alabama.

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 have been given a big boost to their weather fortunes in the past week. Tennessee, for example, went from 96% of the state under drought to being at 46% this week.

Wayne, Fla. – The damage caused by a 140 mph tornado on Tuesday night in the wake of a “We are not kidding” storm

There were no injuries or deaths due to the tornado. But as authorities began assessing the damage to the town of Wayne on Tuesday morning, it was clear the damage was widespread.

There was a tornado in Farmerville that had 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.

At least two tornadoes were spotted in Texas as the storm moved in, though the extent of any damage was not immediately known.

“There’s essentially no one traveling right now,” said Justin McCallum, a manager at the Flying J truck stop at Ogallala, Nebraska. He will not be able to get back home Tuesday because the roads are likely to be closed again. I can see the front of the building, but not the rest of it. 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 and not to leave home.

“It will be a busy week while this system moves across the country,” said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s headquarters in Maryland.

The Collision of a Tour Bus in the Tremonton, Utah, State Highway Patrol and Associated Counties. A tornado in Four Forts, Louisiana

In northern Utah, a tour bus crashed Monday morning as snow and frigid temperatures blanketed the region. The driver lost control and the bus flipped onto its side in Tremonton, according to the Highway Patrol. Some passengers were seriously injured according to the Highway Patrol.

Several people were injured and dozens of homes and businesses were damaged in the suburbs and counties stretching north of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. More than 1,000 flights were delayed and over 100 were canceled as a result of the winter storm, according to FlightAware.

The body of a young boy was found in a wooded area near the home destroyed by a tornado in Four Forts, Louisiana.

Trent Kelley, the deputy director of parks and rec, said there was a possible tornado that blew off the city’s service center and left pieces of it 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. In the ranching region, the weather could also affect livestock. Extreme winds can push livestock through fences as they follow the gale’s direction, said Jim Santomaso, a northeast representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association.

Snow, Ice and Rain in the Northeastern United States after a No-Energy-Centrifugal Category of Superstorms

A “long duration” event with snow, ice and rain is what’s happening, according to the National Weather Service. Minnesota was expecting a lull then a second round of snow.

After a nor’easter dropped more than a foot of snow across many parts of interior New England, more is on its way Saturday as officials warn of dangerous travel conditions the weekend before Christmas.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned people to be careful on the roads as the storm is expected to bring slippery conditions to the Northeastern part of the country.

“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.

Strong wind gusts can cause power lines to fall, particularly in areas where a lot of snow fell last week. This will leave millions finding a way to stay warm as temperatures plummet to well below freezing.

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.

Thousands of people didn’t have proper heating or electricity in the Upper Midwest due to the strong winds and cold that hit the area.

An extremely cold December day in Florida: Fluxes and wind chills all the way from Louisiana to Florida, with power outages on Friday morning

In Caddo Parish, Louisiana, a mother and her son died Tuesday when a tornado destroyed the family’s home.

Hochul said that it would be difficult to travel later this afternoon and tonight because of the rain and snow. People living in the North Country should be aware of the forecast throughout the day.

The heavy, wet snow fell rapidly on Friday, tearing down trees and power lines which led to outages across Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and New York. The higher the elevation, the more likely a place is to see heavier snow.

More than 1.5 million homes and businesses suffered power outages Friday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. States hit the worst include North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.

State police in Vermont advised drivers to slow down after a lot of crashes on Friday. Some roads were also closed due to the storm impact.

The weather service said that more than 22 inches of snow were recorded in Landgrove and Ludlow over the course of 36 hours.

Up to 2 feet of snow can accumulate in areas near or south of Buffalo. The weather service stated that the snow bands are likely to be very narrow and lead to a lot of change over a short distance.

The weather service said that there would be few snow showers in the region through Saturday morning.

Life threatening cold has pushed all the way to the Gulf Coast and the Mexican border, with below zero wind chills reported as far south as Austin and Atlanta. Many locations in the eastern US are in for their coldest Christmas Eve in decades as the Arctic blast reaches its peak.

Wind chill warnings are in effect for large parts of Montana, the Dakotas, parts of Minnesota and Nebraska where temperatures could drop to 60 degrees below zero.

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.

It is that time of year when everyone hates Florida, since it is the only warm spot across the country, but only for a few days, because Florida will cool down by the end of the week.

On Friday, Miami will likely be the hottest place in the US, but it will be nearly 10 degrees cooler than the previous day.

By Friday, temperatures could hit the season’s lowest in what is only the first week of winter. Even northern Florida cities like Jacksonville and Tallahassee could see a chill as low as 20 F on Christmas Eve.

Many will experience a cold holiday unlike any other: Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Tallahassee, Florida, are all forecast to have their coldest high temperature ever recorded on December 24, according to the National Weather Service.

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When you have falling or blowing snow combined with winds of at least 35 mph, the visibility will be reduced to at least a quarter of a mile.

It will be a worry for the city if power goes out due to the gusts of 50 mph on Friday. This will only exacerbate the storm’s impacts as wind chills will drop to at least 20 degrees below zero, possibly even colder.

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.

There is snow and ice covering the entire northern hemisphere in the night. So, you’ve basically got a source freezer sitting up there in the Arctic polar regions,” Greg Carbin, branch chief at the prediction center said. There is a lot of snow in the north-central United States and the cold air can hold on to those characteristics.

Whiteout conditions are expected during that time with travel becoming very difficult or impossible. If you are stuck in the wind chill of 30 below to 45 below zero, this event could be life threatening.

Nashville and Memphis will also drop below freezing on Friday. Nashville will only reach 16 on Friday with 25 mph winds making it feel like 3 degrees below zero. On Christmas Day, they are only going to hit 26. Memphis could see their coldest Christmas since 1985 with a forecast high of 28.

Superstorm I-95, Snow, and the Big Bounce: How Southern Cities Prepare for Christmas and What They Can Expect to Lose During the New Year

Friday: The storm is expected to become a “bomb cyclone” Thursday evening into Friday. A bomb cyclone is when a storm rapidly intensifies – and drops 24 millibars (a term used to measure atmospheric pressure) 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. It can be possible to see some flooding.

Millions of people will have a white Christmas because of this major storm. Some areas were already a given, considering there was snow already on the ground and the cold temperatures keeping it there.

“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 would be willing to increase it to 30% and it would probably increase considerably here in the next couple of days.

The air feels so cold that exposed skin can get frostbite in 10 minutes in most of the impacted areas.

Seattle is under a winter storm warning. A storm will move into Idaho Tuesday morning and then move into Northern and central Montana in the afternoon.

Chicago is forecast to be one of the hardest hit cities, where a winter storm watch is in effect starting Thursday night through Friday evening. With blizzard conditions likely, holiday travel could grind to a halt for many seeking to celebrate with family and loved ones.

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.

Water pipes will be at risk of bursting, the weather service said. Amarillo, Texas, is under a wind chill watch.

The weather service in Fort Worth says that pipes will be at risk because of cold and windy weather late this week. Don’t allow faucets to drain if you cover pipes.

The incoming cold front will blow over the northern Rockies, Great Basin and Northern Plains, causing temperatures to plummet as low as minus 30 degrees and wind gusts as high as 60 mph.

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.

The Denver-Brooklyn Cold Dark Collisions and the Loss of Snow: Forecasts for the Very High Frequency Period

Those outside should cover their skin and wear dry clothing as soon as possible. Staying indoors is the bestprevention by far.

From the U.S. to the Gulf Coast, to the Pacific Northwest, to the East Coast, the immense frigid blast has created a number of dangers. The National Weather Service estimated more than 200 million people were under some form of winter weather advisory or warning in “one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever.”

Denver will go from a high of 47 on Wednesday to a low of minus 14 on Thursday morning. According to the weather service, that day would be the city’s warmest in more than three decades.

Snow could fall as far south as Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis and Nashville in Tennessee and even Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday. Little to no accumulation is expected for most of the southern cities, however, Nashville could pick up about an inch of snow.

The weather service is describing the low as a once in a lifetime event that will be equivalent to a Category 3 Hurricane and will hit the Great Lakes.

The impact of a very serious winter weather event in the U.S. Congressman Gary Biden, the director of the Public Utility Commission, and the chairman of the PUB commission in Georgia, said he had declared a state

In this case, the whole story may not be told by snow totals. Even small snow amounts, when combined with very strong wind gusts and plummeting temperatures, can cause poor visibility and slick spots on roads. The weather service explained that the sudden arrival of the conditions can increase the danger.

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

Governors in Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wyoming declared states of emergency. Governors in Indiana, Colorado and Missouri activated the National Guard.

The governor told reporters the declaration would help ensure that propane can be delivered for both residential and commercial needs.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear also declared a state of emergency, with wind gusts expected to reach 40 to 50 mph on Friday and minus 10 to minus 26 degrees wind chills expected on Saturday. Beshear asked residents to stay off roads and to have a backup heat source.

President Biden talked to reporters Thursday morning in front of a map of national wind chill forecasts, which he said was a very serious weather alert. “This is not the kind of day you were growing up in.” This is serious.

The grid would hold up in Texas, which was the scene of a devastating winter storm in the year 2021, and which tragically killed more than 200 people.

The grid is reliable and ready for use, according to the chairman of the state’s Public Utility Commission. We expect to meet demand throughout the winter weather event, that’s what we expect.

A Winter Storm Holiday Travel Experience with the Kansas City Airports and Streetcars, as Revisited by Mayor Pete Benzema

City officials stressed that crews were working around the clock to keep flights moving at the city’s major airports, O’Hare and Midway, both of which serve as hubs for major airlines.

More than 500 pieces of equipment, more than 400,000 gallons of liquid deicer, and more than 5000 tons of salt will be at the disposal of these hard-working individuals.

Hundreds of miles away in Kansas City, the winter weather brought only an inch or two of snow. The city’s homeless service was likely to experience strain because of the low temperatures for a while.

Several area shelters added beds this week and many of them reported being at or near capacity. Instead, some people sought shelter on the city’s streetcar, which was operating Thursday after crews had worked from 4 a.m. to clear the route and platforms.

“The library is closed. So it’s only this or the bus, or you go into a parking garage, but you’ll probably get kicked out,” said Pete, who said he did not have a permanent place to live and declined to give his last name to KCUR. “There’s not much you can do.”

Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1144970060/winter-storm-holiday-travel

The Denver Coliseum is closed for a warm ride in the freezing-temperature hayride of Dalitz and Zaragoza

The winter in Montana has been worse in the last few years, but it’s not new to the state. We have been running cattle for a long time and know how to deal with stuff like this.

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.

Additional reporting by NPR’s David Schaper in Chicago, Montana Public Radio’s John Hooks in Butte, KCUR’s Savannah Hawley-Bates in Kansas City and NPR’s Ivy Winfrey in Washington, D.C.

High winds produced dangerous wind chill readings in Denver, Colo., and Wyoming, where the wind chill was -50 degrees F.

Wyoming’s governor told NPR on Thursday that troopers, highway maintainers, snowplow drivers have been up all night. “They’ve just been doing a phenomenal job and so we’ve got traffic moving again and we feel pretty good about our circumstances.”

There were nearly 5,000 canceled Friday flights as of 7:30 p.m.

Anyone who requires a warm place to stay may want to check out Denver’s warming centers. The city of Denver said on its website that the Denver Coliseum reached its max capacity on Wednesday night at 358 people. All three centers will remain open through noon on Saturday.

The issue of homelessness amid freezing temperatures sparked online conversations about how to get more people off the streets in these dangerous conditions.

“As a public defender, one of the clearest indicators of societal failure was when I’d meet new clients who purposefully got arrested so they’d find some warmth on Rikers Island instead of freezing to death on the street,” Columbia University lecturer and longtime public defender Scott Hechinger wrote on Twitter Wednesday.

Snow, ice, and rain: Chicago winter snow, flooding, road closures, and poweroutages in the Long Beach branch of the Long Island Rail Road

Several thousand miles of road were being closed and hundreds of flights were being canceled. 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. “All family and friends agreed it’s safer this way.”

In north-central Kansas, three people were killed in separate car crashes on Wednesday evening; one death was confirmed to be weather-related, and two were believed to be weather-related but need more investigation, according to Kansas Highway Patrol spokesperson Lt. Candice Breshears.

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. Police said the Dodge went down the embankment, over the retaining wall and ended up in the creek.

The National Weather Service said that the 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. “We’ve had ice, flooding, snow, freezing temperatures, and everything that mother nature could wallop at us this weekend.”

For Brian Trzeciak, the storm was “living up to the warnings” at his home in Hamburg, New York. Buffalo’s airport, just to the north, reported zero visibility shortly after noon on Friday.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/weather/christmas-arctic-winter-storm-poweroutages-friday/index.html

An Explanation for the Cyclotomic Conditions in Seattle and the Restricted Services for Sound Transit, a Transportation Network in Seattle, Calif.

He said his mother and sister and their family live in the other direction. We always get together on Christmas Eve and Christmas, but are all staying indoors until Monday.

Almost half of the flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were canceled when the runways were closed because of ice. Further, all express services for Sound Transit, a regional transportation network in the Seattle metro area, were suspended Friday due to the icy conditions.