In-Situ Weather in the Los Angeles and Northern California Regions of the Sierra Nevada: A Combined Effect of Wind and Rain on Wind, Snow and Power Consumption

More than 115,000 customers in the western United States were without power because of gusts of wind and rain that came from a strong storm system.

The storm also has brought heavy snow to parts of California that rarely see it. Mount Baldy — which sits east of Los Angeles, at just above 4,000 feet — could get a whopping 4.5 feet of snow by Saturday.

There will be a severe storm threat for parts of the South and central US. A slight threat for severe weather has been issued for parts of western and central Kansas and Oklahoma into northwestern Texas.

The Mississippi River Valley area, where excessive rain is possible Wednesday, is expected to get much needed relief, even with the storm walloping some areas with severe weather.

Heavy snow walloped a swath of northern states earlier this week. In the Northeast, upstate New York and central Vermont saw between 6-12 inches of snow.

A winter storm warning is in effect until 4 a.m. Sunday in the Sierra Nevada mountains from Yosemite National Park to Tulare County, where the Weather Service warned travel could be very difficult to impossible.

Multiple Spinouts over Donner Summit, Nevada: A Big Christmas Snowfall in a Long, Cold, Wet, Atmospheric River

Interstate 80 was also partially closed near the Nevada line midday Saturday “due to multiple spinouts over Donner Summit,” according to the California Department of Transportation.

The National Weather Service office in Reno said that the water in the Sierra was more than two thirds of normal.

It looks like Christmas out here. It did not come with a lot of wind and it stuck to everything. It is 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.

The ski resort posted photos on its website of thick snow covered inOlympic Valley, California.

This is a storm that should be remembered. 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.

The region is being inundated by an atmospheric river – a long, narrow region in the atmosphere that can carry moisture thousands of miles – as much of the eastern US recovers from a deadly winter storm that left wide swaths of the country under dangerously cold temperatures.

The weather agency said that freezing rain and sleet is expected Tuesday and Wednesday, with worsening travel impacts.

Los Angeles, Calif. – The First Superstorm and Second-Weakest Weather Day on record in the Bay Area During a Massive Wet Weather Event on Sunday

Wind gusts in central California had already reached hurricane force by Wednesday evening as the storm’s heaviest rain and strongest winds slammed into the Bay Area. Peak wind gusts at 85 mph were recorded in Nicasio Hills, and 77 mph in Los Gatos.

In southern California, including Los Angeles, the heavier rain will move onshore overnight and continue through much of the day Thursday. Widespread rain totals of 2 to 4 inches are likely, with greater amounts in the higher terrain.

Northern California was swamped with widespread flooding and power lines were down due to the powerful atmospheric river that barreled into the region.

There were 103,000 homes, businesses and other power customers without power across California and Nevada as of Sunday night, down from a high of more than 300,000 outages on Saturday, according to Poweroutage. The US.

The people of the area were told to leave immediately because there was a possibility that rising water might cut off access to the area. Just about two hours later, Wilton residents were told to shelter in place after water made roads “impassable.”

Rainfall in downtown San Francisco hit 5.46 inches (13.87 cm) on New Year’s Eve, making it the second-wettest day on record, behind a November 1994 deluge, the National Weather Service said. The staircase in Oakland became a waterfall after heavy rains, while Videos on social media showed mud-colored water streaming along San Francisco streets.

Sacramento Road Closed After SR 99: Three Years of California’s Driest Snow in Three Years, according to the Sacramento Department of Transportation

Flooding from the Cosumnes River forced the closure of Highway 99 south of Elk Grove in Sacramento County, the California Department of Transportation tweeted. “SR 99 is one of the state’s heavily traveled, and commercially important, corridors,” its website adds.

Weather service meteorologist Courtney Carpenter said the storm could drop over an inch of rain in the Sacramento area before moving south. The ski resort posted a photo on its social media channels showing one lift tower with empty chairs because it was closed for flooding and operational problems.

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 Stockton Police Department posted photos of a flooded railroad underpass and a car that appeared stalled in more than a foot (30 centimeters) of water.

Much more precipitation is needed to make a difference in California where rain was welcomed but not enough. The past three years have been California’s driest on record.

A Flash Flood Watch was in place along and west of 5 Freeway to the Sacramento River, where there were worries about excessive rainfall and flooding on the Cosumnes and Mokelumne Rivers.

According to the National Weather Service’s office in Eureka, there was an earthquake in Humboldt County, and roadways began to flood. 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.

As a California Flood System Warms and Wets Through the First Storms, Emergency Management in the Sacramento Valley and the Sacramento Metropolitan Sheriff’s Office

The first storms were expected to roll across the state in a week. Saturday’s system was warmer and wetter, while storms this week will be colder, said Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

“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.

On New Year’s Eve, several small communities in northern California were forced to evacuate due to the storm as streets were flooded and river water levels rose.

On top of urban flooding, several rivers began overflowing, including the Cosumnes and Mokelumne rivers and the Mormon Slough, according to the National Weather Service in Sacramento. There were warnings about floods in the southern Sacramento Valley and Sierra foothills.

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office told three communities near the city ofWatsonville to leave because of creek flooding, as well as the rising San Lorenzo River waters, which prompted theevacuation of the community of Paradise Park.

“Flooding impacts continue to escalate as this rain continues with too many road closures to count at this point,” NWS said Saturday, telling residents to stay put amid reports of rock and mudslides across the foothills and road closures across the Sierra passes.

The Sacramento County area was particularly hard hit, with emergency crews spending the weekend rescuing multiple flood victims by boats and helicopter and responding to fallen trees and disabled vehicles in the flood waters, the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said.

Amador County Sheriff’s Office shared an image of cars up to their doors in flood waters and said there have been reports of flooding, mudslides and trees blocking roads.

First Day of Grapevine Flooding Control on Highway 50 and the Interstate Highway 67 Mountain Areas. The State of Emergency declared by the California Department of Emergency Services

Highway 50 was reopened just after midnight, hours after a section between Pollock Pines and Meyers was closed due to flooding from the American River, while another section was closed over Echo Summit for avalanche control work.

The National Weather Service in Sacramento advised residents to avoid travel as wind gusts of up to 55 mph caused trees to topple and covered roads with debris.

A state of emergency was proclaimed by the county due to the atmospheric river causing transportation impacts, rising creek and river levels and flooding.

The weather service said there was a chance for isolated snowAccumulations of 5 feet and up, and snowAccumulations of 2 feet and up, at 7,000 feet.

The ski resort said on their Facebook page that work will be done across the mountain since the lifts were coated in ice and the avalanche danger is very high.

At the Nevada State line and Colfax, CHP reported “dangerous and treacherous” driving conditions with dozens of vehicles stuck on the I-80 and county roads.

In Southern California, several people were rescued after floodwaters inundated cars in San Bernardino and Orange counties. There were no serious injuries reported.

With the region getting very dry on New Years day and no rain in the Rose Parade in Pasadena, spectators began staking out their spots for the floral spectacle.

Another round of heavy showers was also forecast for Southern California on Tuesday or Wednesday, the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles-area office said.

A person was found dead inside of a submerged vehicle and a man died after he was struck by a fallen tree during a storm, according to officials.

State Department of Emergency Services Announced an Evacuation Plan for the Santa Barbara County Emergency Department in Light of a Superstorm on Tuesday

An evacuated area was located in the rural areas of Point Pleasant as well as Glanville Tract and Franklin Pond.

It is expected that the flood from the Cosumnes River and the Mokelumne River will reach the I-5 area in the middle of the night.

The storm became a bomb cyclone Wednesday, after it rapidly strengthened while still offshore. A bomb cyclone is an area of low pressure that intensifies by 24 millibars within 24 hours. They are used to measure atmospheric pressures.

Rainfall rates over one inch per hour are possible, which could unleash flooding and mudslides on an already saturated region hit with a different storm that brought deadly floods just last weekend.

The governor of California issued a statewide emergency declaration which will allow aid to be disseminated quickly for those affected by the storm.

“We’re moving from extreme drought to extreme floods,” said state Water Resources Director Karla Nemeth, warning that burn scar areas and other sensitive terrain could become the sites of dangerous mudslides.

As the storm marched towards California, firefighters and rescue equipment were stationed near burn scar areas across seven counties, as well as five other counties with flooding concerns, state officials said.

Among the areas ordered to evacuate is Montecito, the site of a mudslide in 2018 that killed 23 people as mud and boulders the size of houses plowed down the Santa Barbara hillsides, splintering more than 100 homes and rupturing a gas main, according to the state’s Office of Emergency Services.

Das Williams is the first district supervisor in Santa Barbara County. If you live in the red zone, the one thing you should learn is that it’s better to play it safe and evacuate when given 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 California Department of Transport said that the highway was closed in both directions from Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County all the way to the southernmost part of Monterey County.

The Bay Area Department of Emergency Management announced Wednesday night that PG&E is preparing to respond to the San Francisco Fire and High-Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

According to Mary Ellen Carol, the executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management, the city had already seen some flooding, a couple mudslides and sinkholes.

San Francisco fire officials said they rescued a trapped family Wednesday night, sharing images of a crew working to remove a large tree that was on top of a sedan.

And earlier in the day, there were reports of falling glass from a downtown high rise in Fox Plaza, though no injuries were reported. The San Francisco Fire Department said that it’s not certain if it is wind-related at the moment.

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.

California’s largest gas and electric utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric, reported the storm was damaging its equipment and causing widespread outages Wednesday evening.

“We’re seeing a significant number of trees falling into our lines, as well as other impacts on our power system,” PG&E’s Teresa Alvarado said on Twitter. We have mobilized for a large repair and restoration effort.

The vice president of the Bay Area region said that hundreds of crews are staging around the region, including some who are from Southern California Edison.

And while the forecast shows there will be periods of reprieve over the next two days, roads will likely remain dangerously slick throughout the storm as temperatures remain low.

“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.

An Oklahoma City Winter Ice Storm Storm Warning for Highway Drivers During the I-155 Bridge Breathing and the Little Rock Emergency Management Division

In neighboring Oklahoma, residents in Oklahoma City are under a winter weather advisory through Wednesday afternoon, with the expectation of seeing up to two tenths of an inch of ice.

“In addition to potentially hazardous travel conditions, this amount of ice will lead to tree damage and power outages across the hardest-hit regions,” the National Weather Service warned in its forecast Monday.

It’s possible that there’s a half an inch of ice in Memphis, Tennessee. In the state’s Dyer County, icy conditions led officials to shut down the I-155 bridge, according to the highway patrol.

Amid such conditions, the governor has requested the state’s emergency management division to increase its resources so it can be ready to respond through Thursday.

As ice began forming on roads in Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor declared a state of emergency Monday and activated the winter weather support teams of the state’s National Guard to be prepared in helping police in their response to the storm.

The governor urged people in Arkansas to avoid travel if possible and heed the warnings of local officials.

The emergency order directs $250,000 toward discretionary use by the head of the state’s Division of Emergency Management to provide funding for program and administrative costs, the order stated.

“The real enemy is going to be that ice,” said Dave Parker, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Transportation. “This could potentially be a pretty dangerous situation.”

The electric reliability council of Texas told CNN it will be able to meet residents’ demand as temperatures plummet.

We are expecting sufficient generation to meet the predicted demand this week. We are not asking for Conservation at this time. We are informing the public that IF they are experience an outage to reach out to their local power provider,” the agency said in an email.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/weather/winter-ice-storm-south-central-us/index.html

The Mid-Atlantic Temperatures Reach 81, 85 and 83 Degrees on Thursday, as the National Weather Service Confirmed

Icing up to two-tenths of an inch could be seen in Louisville, Kentucky, while Charleston, West Virginia, can see sleet up to an inch and ice up to a tenth of an inch.

Snow is falling at heavy rates of 1-2 inches per hour near the Great Lakes, and combining with 40-50 mph winds. Major disruptions to travel, infrastructure, livestock and recreation will be caused by that.

There have been a lot of cancellation at airports across the Midwest. On Wednesday, more than 1,600 flights were canceled and an additional 5,200 were delayed. More than 1,700 flights were canceled and nearly 10,000 were delayed as of Thursday, according to FlightAware.

In the southern and Mid-Atlantic states, the temperatures were warm, according to the National Weather Service. The temperature in Nashville, Tennessee, andRichmond, Virginia, was 85 and 83 degrees on Thursday.

Atlanta had an all-time record temperature in February at 81 degrees. Washington, D.C., reached 79 degrees, New Orleans reached 83 degrees and Nashville, Tenn., was 80 degrees on Wednesday.

Newsom’s First Winter Storm in the Golden State: High-Surface Snow and Interferometric Rescue Crews in the Southern Hemisphere

The National Weather Service advised boaters to seek safe harbor near the coast of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties on Friday because of severe storms that could produce waterspouts, powerful enough to cause boats to overturn. Small tornadoes on land are possible in the two counties.

San Jose, Napa and other parts of the region have been issued a freeze warning for Friday evening through Saturday morning. Unsheltered populations, crops and outdoor plumbing will be at risk of being harmed in the sub- freezing conditions.

Michigan in particular was hit with freezing rain and ice that disrupted travel and was risky for livestock and infrastructure. Port Austin andMidland had the most snow with 8 inches and 9.1 inches, respectively. The National Weather Service says that the south of the state saw high amounts of ice.

There is a chance for some light snow in the area. The state will have below freezing temperatures on Friday. The weather is expected to warm up by Sunday.

Some California residents remain trapped inside their homes after a winter storm dumped feet of snow across the Golden State, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom to issue a state of emergency in 13 counties, including hard-hit San Bernardino County.

Authorities there had conducted almost 100 rescues by Wednesday evening, San Bernardino County Fire Chief Dan Munsey said in a news conference, though authorities have not learned of any serious injuries or deaths.

“We’re responding to medical calls. We’re responding to fires in these trapped vehicles. Munsey said that they are going to people’s houses where trees have fallen on them or the roof has collapsed, and that they are going to evacuate them.

More snow plows and road crews have been brought to the county by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and personnel from the California National Guard are ready to support operations.

It could take a week to 10 days to dig out the mountain communities hampered by the heavy snow, officials warned in a news conference Wednesday. Mountain residents were still unable to access roads Wednesday, per fire department spokesperson Eric Sherwin. The county has a number of tight, winding roads in the mountain areas that need to be prepared for winter.

The National Weather Service says parts of California have been buried in a significant amount of snow in the last few days, and some places received over 100 inches in the last week. Residents of a three-story apartment building in Olympic Valley were ordered to leave Tuesday evening after they were struck by an indian slide that spanned the bottom two stories. The building’s occupants were uninjured.

Huntington Lake in the Sierra Nevada saw 144 inches of snow, per a report from the Fresno County Office of Emergency Services, which reported 10 to 12 feet of snow near China Peak, leading to the closure of Highway 168.