The Golden State of California is preparing for an Extremely Wet Weather Event on Tuesday and Thursday, and it’s not going to be too Wet

A river of water comes from the Pacific Ocean. Similar to a fire hose, it shoots moisture into one area for an extended period of time, resulting in very heavy rain or snow.

“As impressive as the snowfall event will be across the West, potentially even more impressive and impactful will be the blizzard that is expected to develop from the High Plains through the Upper Midwest, especially Wednesday and Thursday,” the Weather Prediction Center wrote in a forecast discussion Tuesday morning.

The National Weather Service is expecting several feet of snow in the mountains and a few inches in the lower elevations of California. The unseasonable weather for the Golden State comes nearly two months after rounds of deadly flooding battered many areas.

There are gusts of up to 40 mph in the valleys, 50 mph in coastal areas and possibly even higher gusts for exposed coastal headlands, mountaintops, and ridges.

“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.

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.

“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 threat of damaging winds up to 70%, quarter-size hail and tornadoes will remain in central Mississippi and western Tennessee overnight into Friday morning.

The details of the areas most at risk from tornadoes will be clearer as the event approaches.

“The significant Sierra snowpack is good news but unfortunately these same storms are bringing flooding to parts of California,” DWR Director Karla Nemeth said in a press release. The dangers of extreme flooding during a long dry period can be found in this example as California experiences more swings between both wet and dry periods due to our changing climate.

A winter storm warning is in effect for western Washington, including Seattle, until 7 p.m. PST Friday. Additional snowfall of up to 2 inches is possible and ice accumulations could reach a quarter of an inch. After snow, sleet and freezing rain, there will be rain. More power outages are likely and travel will be made very difficult.

A winter storm bringing the triple threat of ice, sleet and snow Tuesday to parts of the South and central US has prompted officials to close roads and schools as they urge people to avoid traveling in dangerous conditions.

MarkDeutschendorf, forecaster at the National Weather service office in Reno, said the snowpack is more than double what they expected.

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

He said that he is cautiously optimistic that the precipitation will make a big difference to the state.

The “We Are Buried” Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, South Dakota, is shut down Tuesday and Wednesday morning based on snow pictures posted by Kihara

“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 have never seen this amount of snow up here. “We woke up to it. It started yesterday and went on into the night. There are lots of trees falling and roads are closed. Power has mostly been out since Tuesday.

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.

“More widespread freezing rain/sleet is expected Tuesday and Wednesday morning, with worsening travel impacts during this time,” the local weather agency said.

The school district in the Rapid City area closed Tuesday and will be closed again on Wednesday due to the winter weather in the area.

Loss and Damage from a Tornado in the Los Angeles, California, Town of Wayne, Calif., and Texas, Ensuing in a Fourth Year of Rain

In California, the rain was welcomed. The state’s driest three years in a row on record, but much more precipitation is needed to make a difference.

No deaths or injuries occurred due to the tornado, according to the sheriff’s captain. Bryan Murrell said. But as authorities began assessing the damage to the town of Wayne on Tuesday morning, it was clear the damage was widespread.

The tornado was rated as an EF-2 by the National Weather Service. It was likely on the ground for about two to four minutes, according to the weather service.

Dozens of homes were damaged in the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, as well as five in Texas, when storms spawned tornadoes on Thursday. There were 18 reports of hail across Texas and Oklahoma with the largest hailstones being about the size of a golf ball.

Multiple tornadoes have occurred in southern Utah and southeast of Dallas, the state’s highway patrol said. A student at a South Dakota truck stop is planning to stay home tonight

There’s basically no one travelling right now according to a manager at the Flying J truck stop. He said he wouldn’t be able to return to his home on Tuesday because the roads were closed. I can see the exterior of the building from the inside, but I don’t know where the rest of the building is. I’m likely to get a motel room tonight.

This is a “we are not kidding” storm, according to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety. People were urged to stock up on essentials and stay 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.

In northern Utah, a tour bus crashed Monday morning as snow and frigid temperatures blanketed the region. The bus flipped onto its side in Tremonton after the driver lost control while switching lanes, the state’s Highway Patrol said in a statement. The Highway Patrol said 23 people were injured.

There have been many severe weather events happening in the US since the beginning of the week.

A boy was found dead in a wooded area outside of a home that was destroyed when a tornado struck Four Forts, Louisiana, Prator said.

Five people were injured by storms outside of Dallas, police said. The businesses that were damaged include a mall and Sam’s Club.

“It’s the worst damage I’ve seen in 17 years,” Nolan told CNN, describing seeing mobile homes lifted from their axles and frames and in some cases carried a quarter of a mile away.

The Two-Five-Year Buffalo Winter Storm: Weather Effects on County and Rural Livelines in Wise County, Texas, and Other Areas

First responders were still searching for people in the early morning hours Wednesday, Nolan said, adding several people were injured while traveling in cars.

A massive winter storm that’s killed about 50 people across the U.S. is expected to claim more lives as the frigid weather continues into the week. Buffalo’s mayor called it a “once-in-a-generation storm”, in which more than half of the deaths occurred.

Severe threats are just one of the things that flash flooding will be of concern. A flood watch is in place for seven million people in Arkansas, western Tennessee and northern Mississippi.

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.

Another two people were injured, and homes and businesses were damaged, in Wise County Tuesday morning, northwest of Fort Worth, county officials said. Two people were hurt when the wind overturned their vehicle and one of them was also hurt when flying debris.

In Farmerville, Louisiana, Tiyia Stringfellow told CNN she was inside her apartment when a tornado hit. She and her boyfriend and two children escaped injury, she said.

The “one-in-five-year storm” worked its way through parts of Nebraska Tuesday and is expected to linger in the area through the end of the week, NWS metrologist Bill Taylor said.

• Texas: The Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas-Fort Worth areas are likely to get the most sleet and freezing rain on Wednesday. The temperature is expected to be somewhere in the low to mid 30s.

The storm has also led several school districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and Austin to close Tuesday, and more than 400 flights departing from Texas airports have been cancelled. Multiple roadways in Texas have been shut down due to ice accumulation, according to the state’s transportation department.

The roof of the service center was blown off and pieces of the roof were hanging down from the power lines.

In Colorado, all roads were closed in the northeast quadrant of the state. The severe weather in the ranching region could also threaten 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.

In parts of central Minnesota, several inches of snow are expected Wednesday, followed by strong winds and the potential for a large storm. Blowing snow or wind gusts of at least 35 mph is considered to be a blizzard, meaning visibility to a quarter-mile or less for at least three hours.

The monstrous storm that walloped much of the US this week has now brought nor’easter conditions as it moves across New York and New England ahead of the weekend.

A Life-threatening Event in West Virginia, and North Carolina: Snow, Ice, and Power Outage in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia and Northern California

Hochul said at the news conference that it was a life threatening event. “Protect yourselves, protect your families. It’s a safe place to travel before the roads are reopened.

“We urge everyone in the impacted regions to avoid unnecessary travel tonight and tomorrow,” Hochul said in a Thursday statement. Make sure to stay off the roads, work from home, and pay attention to your loved ones.

In anticipation of what will be a week of travel nightmares, United, American, Delta, Southwest and Jet Blue have issued travel waivers for dozens of airports across the country from the South to the Northeast, because in addition to snow covering roadways, low visibility could make air travel dangerous.

Additionally, strong winds may knock out power lines in the Midwest, especially in areas where heavy snow fell last week and is already weighing down tree branches. This will leave millions of them without a warm place to stay as temperatures plummet.

There was a quarter inch of ice reported in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia and Maryland, and about a tenth of an inch in parts of Virginia.

Farther west, strong winds from the powerful storm tore down power lines, knocking out power to more than 140,000 homes and businesses in California, where the reported outages occurred in the northern counties of the state including San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz, according to the tracking site Poweroutage.us.

In Louisiana, a mother and her son died when a tornado destroyed their home, local officials said.

In the area from the Great Lakes into the Northeastern part of the US, a combination of stronger winds and ice could result in power loss and tree damage.

A million households were without power on Thursday. In Michigan, more than half a million residents have had their power cut due to the freezing rain and ice. According to Power outage.us, it is up to the state.

State police in Vermont said officers responded to a multitude of car crashes Friday and advised drivers to slow down. There were some roads closed because of the storm impact.

The weather service said more than 22 inches of snow fell in the state of Vermont over a 36 hour period.

One month after a historic snowstorm in the region, western New York is currently covered in a thick lake effect snow, which forms when cold air moves over the Great Lakes.

Buffalo remains under a winter weather advisory until Tuesday afternoon, with the possibility of up to 7 more inches of snowfall. However, temperatures will be slightly higher than they have been in previous days, with a high of 30 degrees in the daytime and a low of 26 at night.

The weather service predicted only light scattered snow showers through Saturday morning, as the snow showers were coming to an end.

Most of the country is expected to see cold temperatures this week. More than 80% of the country will be able to see below-freezing temperatures.

The areas of the South not seen in a quarter century were brought to life by the blast. In Nashville, temperatures fell below zero on Friday for the first time since 1996.

The air can be so cold that it can cause serious harm to your skin in a short period of time.

A winter storm warning is also in effect for northeastern Oregon, including Portland, from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. PST. Wind gusts up to 55 mph are likely as there is a chance of snow and sleet, along with ice. It is possible to get frostbitten on exposed skin in less than 30 minutes.

Prepare to alter travel plans now due to the dangers of traveling and it could be life-threatening later this week. The local weather service office made the announcement.

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.

The most significant travel impacts in the Texas area are expected Tuesday, with icy bridges and slick roadways possible, according to the weather service’s Fort Worth office. Drivers were asked to watch out for black ice and slippery roads.

However, water pipes will be at risk of bursting, the weather service said. A wind chill watch for Amarillo, Texas, is in effect from Wednesday night through Friday afternoon.

The weather service in Fort Worth said that outdoor pipes would be at risk late this week due to cold and windy weather. Make sure the pipes are well covered and let the faucets do their job.

The NWS said in its bulletin that the weather system which swept down from Canada was a strong arctic high pressure system, which was heading towards theSoutheast on Wednesday and Thursday with a wake of life threatening weather systems across 17 states.

The cold front has moved so swiftly that temperatures across the Rocky Mountains plunged at record paces. On Wednesday night in Cheyenne, Wyo., the temperature dropped more than 30 degrees in just nine minutes.

High-Temperature Storm Shockwave Warnings for the Mid-Atlantic and Central Coast Regions During the Holiday Season

The storm snarled travel in the US during the busy holiday weekend, with more than 5,000 flights canceled Friday, more than 3,400 flights canceled Saturday and more than 3,100 canceled on Christmas.

It is a good idea for people venturing outside to cover their skin and wear dry clothing as soon as possible. Staying indoors is the best prevention according to experts.

On Wednesday and Thursday, temperatures will run 30 to 40 degrees below normal for the northern Rockies and northern Plains, while temperatures run 20 to 30 degrees above normal for the Southeast and mid-Atlantic.

Travelers who become stranded, people who work outside, livestock and pets, are all at risk of dying because of the cold temperatures and wind chills, according to the National Weather Service.

The weather service office in Chicago warned that the rapid development of dangerous conditions thursday afternoon could affect the evening peak travel window.

Even the South will be dangerously cold. Nashville and Atlanta’s wind chill will drop to minus 11 on Saturday morning and Birmingham will feel like minus 5.

A powerful bomb cyclone slammed into the California coast Wednesday night, lashing the state with heavy downpours and hurricane-force winds as the storm advanced onshore.

The weather service says the storm is going to reach the equivalent of a Category 3 Hurricane as it makes its way to the Great Lakes.

Preliminary State of Emergency Weather Forecast for Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Public Utility Commissioner Peter Lake

“This is a case 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. Houston could not get warm for 46 hours between Thursday and Saturday.

The National Weather Service said conditions are expected to remain frigid and hazardous on Monday, but start to moderate on Tuesday then continue to slowly improve as the week moves ahead.

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

The declaration will help make sure propane can be delivered for both commercial and residential needs, the governor told reporters.

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 told residents to stay off the roads and to have a backup heat source.

“This is really a very serious weather alert here,” said President Biden, speaking to reporters Thursday morning in front of a national map of wind chill forecasts. This is not a snow day when you were a kid. This is serious stuff.”

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

Snow removal and winter storm holiday travel in Los Alamos, California, according to Pete and his wife, Susanne-Cayley

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 350 pieces of snow removal equipment, more than 400,000 gallons of liquid deicer for runways and taxiways, and 5,000 tons of salt are all at the disposal of these hard-working individuals.

Several area shelters had added beds this week; still, many reported being at or near capacity. Some people sought shelter on the streetcar, which was operating after crews worked all night 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. It’s not much you can do.

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

Snowmobile Rentals in West Yellowstone, Kentucky, and Kansas City During the Fourth Fleeing Day of September 12. The High-Temperature Dust Storm

“We’re very hardy here,” said Lisa Carter, who operates a snowmobile rental business in West Yellowstone. “We deal with cold like this all the time. We’re not doing anything extra because we’re used to it. We just don’t go outside.”

Hank said he would be keeping hay out for his animals as the high temperature was expected to reach minus 13 degrees.

The Associated Press was used in this report along with Bruce Konviser, WPLN’s Paige Pfleger, and bloopers from Mary Louise Kelly and David Schuper.

Hundreds of miles of road closed and flight cancelations were 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 according to a New York resident who was two hours into the storm. “All family and friends agreed it’s safer this way.”

In Kentucky, there were three deaths due to the storm, including two vehicle crashes and a person who was too homeless to stay in their home. The man’s body was found outside with no obvious signs of trauma and an autopsy would determine the cause of death, police said.

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 that the car went over a wall of cement and then submerged in Brush Creek.

Florida will be very cold on Christmas Day and the Seattle-Tacoma airport will be shut down due to ice, flooding, and freezing temperatures

The press conference was called by Hochul because he said that the storm had thrown everything at him but the kitchen sink. Mother nature wrecked us this weekend with everything from ice, flooding, snow, and freezing temperatures.

The storm was living up to the warnings at Brian’s home in New York. Zero visibility was reported at Buffalo’s airport shortly after noon on Friday.

“I’m going to miss Christmas with my people,” he said, the truck and heat still running as he sat inside in the middle of the unplowed road packed with feet of snow.

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.

Even if the snow stops, high winds can pick up snow already on the ground and cause low visibility.

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

Collision-Induced Power Outage and Flooding in the Tennessee and Kentucky Ahead of a High Wind, Rain, and Wind-Closure Injuries

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.

WPLN’s Blake Farmer reported that as the front hit, parts of the South experienced wind chills of minus 20 degrees, and gusting winds knocked out power to thousands of homes across Tennessee and Kentucky. Emergency responders asked people in the region to stay home if possible.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has asked utilities in the area to cut their electricity use in order to relieve the pressure on a power grid that is not used to cold weather. Customers in Nashville will experience 10-minute outages every few hours, until the power load stabilizes.

Scott Aaronson, vice president of security and preparedness at the Edison that getting the power restored in weather like this is a significant challenge.

“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 rains wreaked havoc along the coast of New Jersey, flooding areas as large as 9 feet. The interior locations along the Hudson River were flooded.

New York City Mayor Mark Manahan’s death after 24 hours without electricity in the longest sustained blizzard in the state of New York

“So that, unfortunately, really affects anyone who’s got a connecting flight, and we’re going to see a lot of people missing connecting flights with these long delay times,” Bangs said.

Freezing conditions and day-old power outages had Buffalonians scrambling to get to anywhere that had heat amid what Hochul called the longest sustained blizzard conditions ever in the city. But with streets under a thick blanket of white, that wasn’t an option for people like Jeremy Manahan, who charged his phone in his parked car after almost 29 hours without electricity.

Two people died in suburban New York on Friday when emergency crews couldn’t get to them in time to treat their illnesses, while another died in Buffalo. Four more deaths were confirmed overnight, bringing the total to seven in Erie County. County Executive Mark Poloncarz warned there may be more dead.

This storm, however, was more ferocious than the blizzard of 1977, Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz said. “It was just horrendous, and it was horrendous for 24 hours in a row.”

Emergency workers continued to rescue those trapped in cars on Saturday night as darkness fell. Some residents were going to have to spend another night at home without power because of the snow.

“There are some people that have been without power in their homes since Friday, we know that,” Buffalo’s mayor said, adding that his own home was without power and the temperature indoors went down to 40 degrees, forcing his family to layer up.

The Buffalo Niagara Airport Reopens for Business and Safety Purposes after a Large-Scale Storm on Friday Night in Austin, South Carolina

The struggle was complicated by drivers ignoring travel bans and becoming stuck or stranded, blocking roads cleared for emergency traffic, Mr. Poloncarz said.

The Buffalo Niagara International Airport, which closed Friday due to “hazardous weather conditions” and saw 43 inches of snow, is expected to remain closed until late Wednesday morning, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority said on Twitter. Pittsburgh International Airport is now sending snow equipment to Buffalo Airport to assist with reopening the airfield, according to a news release Monday.

Tommy Bellonte, 37, who was visiting from Buffalo, had to come back to his home on Saturday to check on a neighbor. “But you can’t get used to this.”

Some residents of beachfront areas in New York City also faced the prospect of leaving home for Christmas, after Friday’s storm surge caused heavy flooding in the Rockaways, swamping basement apartments, said Donovan Richards Jr., the Queens borough president.

Two other deaths were previously linked to the storm that coated Texas cities with sleet or ice. In south Austin, one person died Tuesday morning in a 10-car pileup, the city’s fire department said. Another person died when their car rolled over in the Dallas-area city of Arlington, police said.

Residents sought shelter after spending the night in their houses that were not warm, as the cold set in, and cities and towns opened warming shelters in fire stations and school gymnasiums.

After a day without power, Shantel Moncrief and her husband attempted to sleep in their apartment in south Nashville on Friday night layered in sweaters and blankets. At 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., they moved into their car and her mother’s house, because they were too cold to rest.

Christmas Eve in New York City: Cone Dison Asks Consumers to Conserve Energy in the First Day of Decay on Winter Storm Snow

At La Guardia Airport in New York, more than 50 flights were canceled Saturday morning, and travelers prepared to spend Christmas Eve at the airport or in nearby hotels.

Dan and Judy Ellis got to the airport at 3 a.m. with their children. The family was rebooked on different flights after the flight was canceled.

A family rents a car to get to their home in Nashville. The cost would be hefty, Mr. Ellis said, but he did not mind paying it.

As darkness fell in Western New York on Saturday and temperatures crept even lower, thousands of utility workers and plow drivers faced another long night of work to restore power and clear roads. With snow forecast to continue, and travel bans still in effect, stores were empty of last-minute shoppers, and streets mostly silent.

Frank Anderson, 50, was stuck in deep snow in his large white pickup truck on Saturday for the second time since wrapping up his shift as a prison guard.

Still wearing his work jacket with a New York State Corrections and Community Supervision emblem on his left sleeve and with only a spare sweater in the back seat, he found his truck jammed along Hertel Avenue, his tires spinning on ice, as he attempted to make it back to his wife and three children in time for Christmas. He was about “a mile from home” in the suburb of Tonawanda.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/24/us/winter-storm-snow-weather/con-edison-asks-new-york-city-customers-to-conserve-energy

The New York City Christmas Eve Snowmass: Rejoind to the New Jersey Department of Power and Water, and to the Associated Power Grid in Jackson, Mississippi

Euan Ward , Eliza Fawcett , Isabella Grullón Paz , Bob Chiarito, Jamie McGee, Ellen Yan, April Rubin, Sharon Dunten and Maria Jimenez Moya contributed reporting.

New York City had record cold temperatures on Christmas Eve. The National Weather Service says that the high at Central Park on December 24 was 15 degrees, which was the second-coldest December in at least 150 years.

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.

PJM Interconnection serves approximately 65 million people in Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Meanwhile, a shortage of electricity in Texas prompted the US Department of Energy to declare an emergency Friday, allowing the state’s energy provider to exceed environmental emissions standards until energy usage drops.

Efforts to fix a large water main break in Jackson, Mississippi, have been hampered by cold weather, causing a loss of water pressure for residents.

“We are grateful to the crews who are braving these frigid temperatures on this Christmas Eve night, while working to restore pressure to residents. They sacrifice is appreciated by this administration and every resident who is affected, according to the release.

Kathy Hochul emphasized the importance of obeying local and state driving bans in Western New York as crews dig out vehicles drowned in snow. Driving bans remain in Buffalo, Lackawanna and Cheektowaga throughout the night.

Statewide ice and snow accumulation during a high-pressure storm in northern California and Oregon Thursday through Sunday, with two deaths reported in Austin and Colorado

National Guard troops were called in to help “rescue people that are stuck in vehicles,” and to give rides to medical workers so they could relieve colleagues who had been working at hospitals for more than a day, Poloncarz said.

By late Monday, ice had already spread across grounds in Memphis, Tennessee, and Louisville, Kentucky, as well as Texas, where at least a few car crashes were reported in Austin with no injuries.

“I’ll be asking the federal government for a declaration of emergency that’ll allow us to seek reimbursements for the extraordinary expenses of all the overtime and the fact that we brought in mutual aid from other parts of the state,” Hochul said to reporters Saturday. “We’ve deployed individuals – the utility crews have come but also making sure that we have all the vehicles we need.”

There are two people who died in Buffalo due to not being able to get a medical attention because of the storm and Hochul says that it is a crisis situation that unfolds before your eyes.

Colorado: Police in Colorado Springs reported two deaths related to the cold since Thursday, with one man found near a power transformer of a building possibly looking for warmth, and another in a camp in an alleyway.

The storm system lifts into southeastern Canada and slows as it slowly moves into eastern Canada and pulls air from Canada toward the eastern side of the country.

The Arctic blast being felt across the eastern two-thirds of the nation will slowly moderate into Monday, but dangerous conditions will persist Christmas Day.

As the frigid air continues to blast the warm waters of the Great Lakes, lake-effect snows and blizzard conditions are expected to continue, but slowly become less intense.

The low-pressure storm system moved in from the Pacific, bringing damaging winds, excessive rainfall and extremely heavy snow over much of California and into southern Oregon through Thursday.

Cars were almost covered in 6-foot snowdrifts, some of the houses were adorned in unlit holiday displays, and power was out for a large part of the day. With snow swirling down untouched and dangerous wind gusts of up to 40 mph, forecasters warned of more than a foot of snow in some areas through the early morning hours of Monday.

“Some were found in cars, some were found on the street in snowbanks,” said Poloncarz. People who have been trapped in cars for 2 days are known to us.

I could not get to the one warming shelter. “I can’t drive because I’m stuck,” Manahan said. “And you can’t be outside for more than 10 minutes without getting frostbit.”

Days of Merry Christmas: Ditjak Ilunga and His Family in Hamilton, Ontario, During a Howling Storm on Sunday

Ditjak Ilunga of Gaithersburg, Maryland, was on his way to visit relatives in Hamilton, Ontario, for Christmas with his daughters Friday when their SUV was trapped in Buffalo. Unable to get help, they spent hours with the engine running, buffeted by wind and nearly buried in snow.

By 4 a.m. Saturday, their fuel nearly gone, Ilunga made a desperate choice to risk the howling storm to reach a nearby shelter. He carried 6-year-old Destiny on his back while 16-year-old Cindy clutched their Pomeranian puppy, following his footprints through drifts.

“If I stay in this car I’m going to die here with my kids,” Ilunga recalled thinking. He cried when he saw the family in the shelter. “It’s something I will never forget in my life.”

Concerns about rolling blackouts across eastern states subsided Sunday after PJM Interconnection said its utilities could meet the day’s peak electricity demand. 65 million consumers were asked by the mid-Atlantic grid operator to conserve energy.

In Jackson, Mississippi, city officials on Christmas Day announced that residents must now boil their drinking water due to water lines bursting in the frigid temperatures While in Tampa, Florida, the thermometer plunged below freezing for the first time in almost five years, according to the National Weather Service — a drop conducive to cold-blooded iguanas falling out of trees.

Kless was in Buffalo at 3 am on Sunday. He went to his mother’s house and called his three kids to wish them a merry Christmas, but only after spending the day providing transportation for people who couldn’t drive to a shelter.

He brought a family of five with him to the church in Buffalo on Saturday, along with about 15 other people. He also got a man in need of dialysis, who had spent 17 hours stranded in his car, back home, where he could receive treatment.

Many cities and town are covered in snow. Over separate 24-hour spans, Baraga, Michigan, received 42.8 inches of snow while Henderson Harbor, New York, got 40.8 inches.

A New York State Police Drive-by-Driven Driving Ban: The Erie County Roads Are Frozen and the Electricity Will Freeze Until Tuesday

Hochul is still urging residents to stay off the roads, as a driving ban continues in Erie County through Monday.

Hochul said state and county plows had been out there constantly, giving up time and putting themselves in danger to clear the roads.

“Think about looking just a few feet in front of you at a sheet of white for more than 24 hours in a row. That’s what it was like outside in the worst conditions,” he said. “It was continual blizzard and white outs such that no one could see where they were going. Nobody had an idea what was happening.

There were hundreds of abandoned cars in Buffalo, according to the New York State Police. He said that authorities were going door to door and checking for people.

Some residents have remained in their homes for the last 56 hours, some without power in the freezing cold, Hochul said during the press conference. The governor said that this wasn’t due to a lack of resources, but a challenge faced by utility companies.

The rest of the eastern part of the country is in a deep freeze until Tuesday, when a moderate trend sets in, forecasters said.

Buffalo Mayor Kristina Brown: “Every day is different, but it’s going to be a generation storm,” sheriff Jennifer Hochul told NPR

Buffalo Mayor Brown told NPR that the emergency responders went “car by car” to perform hundreds of rescues of stranded motorists.

“This has been termed a generation storm,” Brown said. It’s very different from what the city of Buffalo is used to getting.

“That number is now below 10,000, and we will continue to work aggressively and strategically with National Grid all day today to continue to reduce that number and get everyone’s power restored,” he added, referring to the local utility.

Hochul said at the news conference that scores and scores of vehicles were abandoned when people left during the storm. She said that it is still dangerous to be out.

“I have a bad feeling about that. The death toll is going to go up, according to the sheriff. It’s gut-wrenching when you have the 411 calls that aren’t answered.

Hochul stated Monday that there were thousands of prepared meals in the state ready to be given to food banks.

“We have a responsibility to have all these resources on hand. It is not safe for emergency vehicles, the trucks that are bringing groceries to the stores, or the stores that are being closed because of the paralyzing wall created by mother nature.

The governor submitted a request to President Joe Biden for a federal emergency declaration for Erie and Genesee counties, which “will be crucial to assist our recovery efforts from this historic storm,” she said.

Portland, Oregon, Weakened by the Fourth Rainiest Day on Record in the Last Two Days of August 17-28, 2002: Arborist Colin Bourgeois

Strong winds in Portland could knock down trees that have been weakened by weather extremes in recent years, arborist Colin Bourgeois told CNN affiliate KATU.

“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.

The old record of 1.08 inches was broken by the rain in Portland. Portland had its third-rainiest day on record on Monday.

There were a lot of warnings issued for residents from southern Oregon to southern California.

“Say goodbye to the warmth,” the National Weather Service in Los Angeles tweeted Monday. “Big drop in temperatures on track between today and tomorrow (Tuesday). Expect 15-20 degrees of cooling thanks to the approaching storm system.”

More than 300,000 homes and businesses in California and Nevada were without power due to the storm, according to Poweroutage. the US.

New Year’s Eve Outages in California Driven by the Sacramento River Flash Flood: A High-Sunset Weather Warning for New York City and Los Angeles

New York City and Washington, DC are likely to be the only places with celebrations on New Year’s Eve. Los Angeles, too, is expected to ring in a soggy new year.

There was a flash flood watch in effect along and west of 5 freeway to the Sacramento River, where there were fears of flooding on the Cosumnes andMokelumne rivers.

Rain chances for New York City will increase through Saturday, with the heaviest rainfall expected between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m. Sunday. The temperature will be close to 50 through most of the day.

The weather prediction center said the slight risk area highlights places that are high in soil humidity and burn scars.

The section of I-70 in Colorado that had been closed for nine hours reopened Thursday after drivers were stranded by heavy mountain snow and widespread rain.

Police said five people died after trees fell on passing vehicles in Oregon on Tuesday.

The southern part of the state is still recovering from the large winter storm that hit the area last week and caused unfamiliar wintry conditions at higher altitudes. Major thoroughfares were closed Monday.

A map from the Municipal Utility District shows that more than 153,000 customers were without power on Saturday. “SMUD crews are responding to outages across the region during this powerful winter storm,” the utility said in a Twitter message, adding that it was preparing additional resources while working to restore power.

There are too many road closings to count at this point according to the weather agency. Sacramento County urged residents in the unincorporated community of Wilton to evacuate, warning that flooded roadways could “cut off access to leave the area.”

Counting Rainfalls and Flooding in the San Francisco Bay Area Between Dec. 26 and Nov. 27, 2018, according to a Los Alamos Weather Service

According to a local weather service, San Francisco experienced the wettest 10-day period on record in 1871. The area soaked up more than 10 inches of rain between December 26 and Wednesday, the agency said.

US Highway 101 – one of California’s most famous routes – was also temporarily closed in both directions in South San Francisco with California Highway Patrol reporting “water is not receding due to non-stop rainfall & high tides preventing the water to displace.”

The storms could produce an inch of rain in the region before it moves to the south. A ski resort south of Lake Tahoe posted on social media that they had closed the chair lifts because of flooding, and posted a photo of their empty chairs in the middle of 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 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.

The deluges have occurred as California has been enveloped by drought and faced fierce wildfires that have scarred the landscape. Now, much of the state cannot bare to absorb more moisture without the possibility of even more flooding.

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.

The weather system is predicted to produce some valley rain and mountain snow on Monday and Tuesday.

“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 Cosumnes and Mokelumne rivers as well as the Mormon Slough began to overflowing on top of urban flooding according to the National Weather Service. There were warnings for the south of the Sierra foothills.

Three communities near the city of Watsonville were also told to evacuate by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office due to creek flooding, while the rising San Lorenzo River waters prompted evacuations in the communities of Paradise Park and Felton.

While those expected rainfall amounts wouldn’t normally have major impacts, the state recently received a lot of rain that left soils saturated and susceptible to flooding and landslides, the Weather Service said.

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.

Calling it “Stormageddon,” the Amador County Sheriff’s Office shared an image of cars up to their doorhandles in floodwaters and said there’s been reports of flooding, mudslides and trees blocking roadways.

Multiple-Hazard Storms in the Sacramento, El Pasadena, South, and Northern 48 Hours After the First Day of Rose Parade

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 state of emergency was declared by the county because of the river causing transportation impacts, rising creek levels and flooding.

More than 4 feet (1.2 meters) of snow had accumulated in the high Sierra Nevada, and the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area said heavy, wet snow would cause major delays in chairlift openings. On Saturday, the resort reported numerous lift closings, citing high winds, low visibility and ice.

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.

Aerial video from CNN affiliate KCRA showed cars submerged past their doorhandles in flood waters from Highway 99 and the Dillard Street area. Chris Schamber, a fire captain with the Cosumnes Fire Department, told the station “dozens upon dozens” of people had been rescued.

With the region drying out on New Year’s Day and no rainfall expected during Monday’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, spectators began staking out their spots for the annual floral spectacle.

An evacuation order was issued Sunday for the rural Sacramento County areas of Point Pleasant, while Glanville Tract and Franklin Pond were under an evacuation warning.

The flooding from the Mokelumne River and the Cosumnes River is moving to the southwest, and could reach areas in the middle of the night.

Damaging winds, isolated large hail and a few tornadoes could be seen from southern Indiana through Kentucky and Tennessee and into northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia. The regions are under an enhanced risk for severe storms that could be more widespread and occasionally intense.

The multi-hazard storm – which headed into central and Southern US after battering California with deadly floods – has already triggered at least 120 storm reports over the past two days and left a trail of destruction as it barreled across the country, shifting to the South and Southeast.

The storm has also brought some heavy rain, with much of the South seeing 48-hour rainfall totals between 2-4 inches. Some areas in the Mississippi and Ohio River Valley got up to 6 inches, while isolated areas in eastern Arkansas got 10 inches.

Memphis and Jackson saw their rainiest Tuesday on record. Memphis received 3.84 inches, smashing its previous daily record of 2.13 inches set in 1949. Jackson got 2.48 inches on Tuesday, beating a previous daily record of 1.69 inches in 1951.

The NWS says temperatures in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley will likely be as much as 40 degrees above normal on Thursday.

Disaster Preparedness for a Falling Power Line Tree and a Flood in Santa Barbara, Calif., according to the Garland County Sheriff’s Office

Several homes in the area were damaged when a tree fell on powerlines, according to the Garland County Sheriff’s Office.

The school was in session at the time, however all of the students were accounted for and there were no injuries, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

“The best thing is my husband and I are alive. Sylvia and her husband stood next to their damaged home while Sylvia told the station they were grateful that they were here.

In Jackson Parish, Louisiana, residents were told to stay off the roads because of the severe weather that caused downed trees and powerlines.

A different storm that brought deadly floods to the area last weekend, could cause flooding and mudslides if the rain rate goes over one inch per hour.

The National Guard was dispatched Thursday to assist with rescues of snowbound residents in San Bernardino County, which was one of 13 states where a state of emergency was issued this week.

State officials are urging the public to be on the lookout for potential flooding and mudslides that may have arisen from the recent wildfires. “A debris flow can take homes off their foundations and carry items such as vegetation, large boulders, and cars.”

Firefighters and rescue equipment were positioned near burn scar areas in seven counties as the storm approached, as well as five other counties with flooding concerns, state officials said.

The Montecito area in Santa Barbara, where mudslides killed at least 23 people in recent years, is one of the areas ordered to evacuate.

Das Williams is the first district supervisor in Santa Barbara County. If you live in that red zone, the one thing we should have learned over the last five years is that it is better to evacuate and comply with the order than to play it safe.

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.

A long stretch of the coast Highway 1 was closed in both directions because of rockslides from Ragged Point to the southern tip of Monterey County, according to the California Department of Transportation.

Oakland City Council declared a local emergency in the wake of a high-speed, wind-driven, superfluid storm on Wednesday night

San Francisco was under a flood warning Wednesday as the brunt of the storm started to hit the city, with Mayor London Breed saying “floods are inevitable.”

A tree was on top of a sedan when a family was trapped in San Francisco on Wednesday night, according to the city’s fire officials.

There were no injuries reported after glass fell from a high rise in Fox Plaza. The San Francisco Fire Department said in a statement that it was not certain if the incident was wind-related.

Oakland city officials declared a local emergency Wednesday in the face of storm damage to Oakland roads, as well as 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 lot of trees falling into our lines and other impacts on the power system.” We have begun a major repair and restoration effort.

Hundreds of crews are being staged around the Bay Area, including some from Southern California who are also assisting in the response.

“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.

Colliding into a Utility Pole: A 19-year-old Driver and a Snowball in Northern California, according to Fairfield Police Department Chief Brian Lunardi

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. The driver hit a patch of standing water before losing control of the vehicle and colliding with a utility pole.

A young child – about age 1 or 2 – was killed Wednesday after a redwood tree fell on a home in Sonoma County in Northern California, Occidental Volunteer Fire Department Chief Ron Lunardi said.

Mary Ellen Carol, executive director of the city’s emergency management department said that some people in San Francisco saw flooding, mudslides and sinkholes.

More than 15 million people were under wind chill warnings Monday morning because of the dangerously bitter cold air that settled in behind the arctic front over the weekend.

The weather service issues ice storm warnings when ice accumulations of more than a quarter of an inch are possible. The areas that are currently under a warning are supposed to see a half inch of freezing rain on Wednesday.

It is possible that freezing rain will begin as early as 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.

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. Areas along the I-80 saw between 1 and 5 inches of snow, with isolated areas along the highway seeing even higher accumulations.

“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.

Arkansas Winter Ice Storm Prepares for Driven Drivers: Secretary of State Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Call on the State’s Emergency Management Division

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.

“I encourage Arkansans who are experiencing winter weather to avoid travel if possible and heed the warnings of local officials,” Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Twitter.

The emergency order directed the head of the state’s Division of Emergency Management to use $250,000 in discretionary funds to cover program and administrative costs.

“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 dangerous situation.

Indeed, Tuesday is expected to be the toughest day for driving as Texas bridges and roads become icy, according to the weather service’s Fort Worth office.

Texas’ primary electricity provider told CNN it will be able to meet residents’ demand as temperatures plummet.

We expect enough generation to meet forecasts and continue to monitor the situation. 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

Multiple-Car Pile-Ups, Multiple-Status and Multiple-Collision Collisions Associated with a Truck Collision in Oklahoma City

In Oklahoma City the winter weather advisory is in effect through Wednesday afternoon with an expectation of two tenths of an inch of ice.

With icy and snowy conditions on roads across the state Tuesday morning, a number of accidents have already been reported. The Austin Fire Department said it was seeing a spike in multiple-car pile-ups causing significant injuries and that at least one person had died in a collision.

“As we mobilize the resources Texans need to stay safe, I encourage everyone to remain weather-aware, check DriveTexas.org before traveling, and heed the guidance from local officials,” Abbott said in a statement.

Many schools in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas plan to shut down or switch to online learning on Tuesday.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a 49-year-old woman was killed this week when she lost control of her truck on an icy road.

“Before we got to I-20, we also helped a few other cars who were stuck on the streets,” Muniz said. “We eventually came across the standstill on Interstate 20 and helped an additional 20 trucks.”

The truck drivers were very grateful for our help. They asked if we were going to charge them for the help, but we told them we were only there to help.

The Eleventh Day of February: The Dallas Weather Service is Providing for Upsilon Rescue and Searches in the Anomaly

“Prepare for tree limb breakage and localized power outages in this region, in addition to hazardous or impossible travel conditions,” the weather service in Dallas warned.

The Texas National Guard is prepared to help stranded motorists, clear roadways and provide welfare checks, Gov. Greg Abbott said. There are at least 30 responders ready for search and rescue operations at Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared in the weekly weather newsletter, the CNN Weather Brief, which is released every Monday. You can get them each week and during storms.

The Pacific Northwest has the potential to see wind gusts up to 60 mph and as much as three feet of snow at the highest altitudes. Seas just offshore will be as high as 20 feet, bringing large, breaking waves to coastal areas, causing beach erosion.

Blizzard warnings are in place for southern Wyoming, where nearly two feet of snow and winds gusting more than 70 mph will create blinding conditions. The weather service also warns of wind chills falling to 25 degrees below zero.

Whether you are buried under three feet of snow and experiencing frigid temperatures or basking in the sunshine and record warmth, this week will touch nearly all corners of the country with wild weather.

The term the NWS Climate Prediction Center and many forecasters are using to describe the overall weather pattern is “anomalous” — for the unusual cold and warmth that people will experience.

People living in the east can be forgiven for wondering if winter is over because they watch early blooms emerge. The central and eastern United States was forecast to be 10 to 20 degrees warmer than normal on Monday.

The NWS said highs Tuesday will be similar to average, including 70s in the north and Mid-Atlantic, and only the northern tier cooling off.

The Florida peninsula could reach into the 90s on Thursday, as high temperatures in the 70s and 80s start to climb. Usually highs can be seen in May or early June, but these temperatures are typically 20 to 35 degrees above normal.

More than 130 cities can set new daily high temperature records from Tuesday to Friday and some will even set new monthly records.

Twitter: Snowfall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, caused by a National Guard and State Highway Patrol – Tim Walz’s Tweet

Gov. Tim Walz directed the state’s National Guard, the transportation department and the state patrol to be prepared to respond storm impacts, he said on Twitter.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota: In addition to the up to 4 inches of snow the state has already seen, snowfall up to 16 inches and winds of 45 mph are also expected.

South Dakota’s governor announced Tuesday the closures of state government executive branch offices Wednesday in more than half of the state’s 66 counties, with plans for employees to work remotely. I-90 was partially closed Tuesday night to prepare for the snow.

Eastern Wyoming College announced the closure of its main campus. The virtual learning day will be conducted by the Natrona County school district on Wednesday due to road conditions.

Over 40 inches of snow fell in the southern parts of the state, trapping motorists and forcing crews to perform rescue efforts, according to the state highway patrol.

There were more than 160 crashes reported in Minnesota as a result of the snow and it was 3-7 inches in some areas. Lt. Gordon Shank said in a series of tweets.

A blizzard warning for California and Washington states resulting from a snowstorm and heat wave, and its application to the Rockies and South

In Wisconsin – similarly hit by snow since Tuesday in the north and freezing rain Wednesday in the south – Gov. Tony Evers declared a statewide energy emergency Wednesday, saying it will “allow for a more swift and efficient restoration of any electric power outages throughout the state,” a news release from his office said.

In an extremely rare event, the weather says that both Ventura and Los Angeles counties will be under a blizzard warning from Friday morning through Saturday afternoon. That will be the first blizzard warning issued by the weather service’s Los Angeles office since 1989, it said.

The temperature difference between the Rockies and South was 100 degrees earlier this week after a winter storm and heat wave.

• Wisconsin airport preemptively closed: Green Bay’s international airport canceled the remainder of its daily flights Wednesday evening and most of its flights 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 set an all-time record for February on Wednesday with a temperature of 81 degrees. On Wednesday, New Orleans was 83 degrees, while Washington, D.C., and Nashville each had 80 degrees.

On Friday, forecasters also urged mariners near the coast of the state’s San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties to “seek safe harbor immediately” — warning of severe thunderstorms that could produce sudden waterspouts, powerful enough to “easily overturn boats.” The two counties are also at risk of seeing small tornadoes on land.

More than 100,000 homes and businesses in several counties were without electricity early Saturday due to the severe weather which wreaked havoc across the state.

Michigan in particular was hit with freezing rain and ice that disrupted travel and was risky for livestock and infrastructure. Port Austin and Midland saw the most snow, with 8 inches and 8.9 inches respectively. The National Weather Service said there was ice in the southern part of the state.

The weather service issued a flash flood warning for the Los Angeles area on Friday due to the heavy rain causing some roads to turn into rivers.

Icing Conditions in Michigan Driven by a Decelerating Winter Storm and a Massive Car Accident on the Turnpike

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 a half a million homes and businesses in Michigan were without electricity on Saturday after a potent winter storm created dangerous icing conditions. Wayne County had more than 150,000 customers without power.

DTE, one of Michigan’s largest electric providers, is restoring power to stricken areas but cautioned it will not be able to return service to most customers before Sunday.

In New England, icy conditions likely contributed to a massive 15-vehicle pileup on the Massachusetts Turnpike Thursday night, according to a tweet by the Massachusetts State Police.

The weather service said that flooding was no longer a threat because of the heavy rain that had ended.

Brian Wheeler of Consumers Energy said ice weighed down some power lines, which was equivalent to the weight of a baby grand piano.

Allison Rinker in Kalamazoo, Michigan, had a borrowed generator to keep her house warm after two nights of cold and darkness.

She said that they were all alive, but there was no spirit on the second day. It was like a complete flip in attitude when we had one or two lights on after the heat returned.

“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 crazy.

The Nevada Low-Pressure Symmetry Forecast for Sunday, April 12. Snow in Portland, Arizona, and the McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas

The low-pressure system was predicted to bring rain in southern Nevada and snow in northwest Arizona by Saturday night and Sunday morning according to the National Weather Service.

The cold weather left the north and west to lead to wildly different temperatures in the southern states. The high temperature on Friday was 93 degrees far away at Falcon Lake, Texas, while the low was minus 35 degrees far away near Huntley, Montana.

Much of Portland was shut down with icy roads not expected to thaw until Saturday after the city’s second-heaviest snowfall on record this week: nearly 11 inches (28 centimeters).

Tim Varner sat huddled with blankets in a Portland storefront doorway shielding him from some of the 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 several inches of rain in the area, including Holy Jim Canyon, Henshaw Dam, Lower Silverado Canyon and Costa Mesa as well as Mount Woodson and Carlsbad Airport.

Travel conditions were dangerous because of the storm. 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.

In anticipation of severe winds and potential hail Sunday night and into Monday, an Air Force unit at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, relocated most of its aircraft to protect them from damage and ensure they can still be deployed if needed, the base announced.

Yosemite National Park is closed through a multi-day blizzard warning on Saturday. A California Highway Patrol warning for the Great Lakes

Yosemite National Park was closed Saturday due to severe weather and will not reopen until at least Wednesday as a multi-day blizzard warning remains in effect across Yosemite Valley, the park announced. The park said that the valley could get as much as 84 inches of snow by Wednesday.

A derecho is a widespread, long-lived windstorm that typically causes damage in one direction across a relatively straight path, according to the National Weather Service. It says that the wind damage should stretch more than 220 miles and include gusts of at least 58 mph.

Students on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman were told to immediately take shelter Sunday evening as the area was under a tornado warning, which was lifted later that night.

The Great Lakes are expected to be hit this week with storms that will damage trees and power lines in Michigan which has 146,000 homes and businesses without power.

Between 2 to 8 inches of snow is possible if there is another round of precipitation on Monday.

The residents of Crestline, located in the San Bernardino region of California, are concerned about access to supplies since their grocery store has closed due to the heavy snow.

The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services has been working to bring additional snow plows and road crews to the county, and personnel from Cal Fire and the California National Guard “are readied to support operations.”

Among those trapped were more than 600 students who were scheduled to return home last Friday but got stuck at their camps due to the storm. 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. The Oregon Department of Transportation said that it was important to have good tires and wipers in your vehicle.

A Forecast for Heavy and Weak Winds in the Oklahoma Mid-Antenna and North Carolina by Next-to-Leading-Order Supercell Storms

Officials in Oklahoma are still assessing the damage, though the most concentrated impacts appear to be in Norman, Shawnee and possibly Cheyenne, according to a spokesperson for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

These morning storms are more likely to be strong supercell thunderstorms as a result, which carry the largest risk for the spin-up of violent tornadoes and large hail.

A squall line of strong thunderstorms is predicted to develop Thursday afternoon as the cold front pushes eastward, which will increase the risk of widespread damaging winds.

In the afternoon Friday, eastern Kentucky and the western Carolinas will be faced with the possibility of small hail, damaging wind gusts up to 50 mph, and isolated tornadoes. The threat is expected tobate late Friday night.

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. We are going to people’s houses where they’ve had trees through their houses or some sort of roof collapse and we are evacuating them to our evacuation shelters,” Munsey said.

Three-Fluid Flash Flood Warnings and Critical Business Services in Olympic Valley, California, following the First Day of a Snowscaping Event

It could take a week to 10 days to get the mountain communities out of the snow. Mountain residents were still unable to access roads Wednesday, per fire department spokesperson Eric Sherwin. The Public Works Director stated that the county has over 500 miles of winding and tight roads that need to be plowed in the mountains.

Some areas in California have received more than 100 inches of snow in the last week, and authorities have warned residents of the danger of avalanches, due to the large amount of snow buried underneath. The bottom two stories of a three-story apartment building in Olympic Valley had to be engulfed by an aspen Tuesday night, and residents had to be evacuated, according to the sheriff’s office. The people in the building were not hurt.

The Office of Emergency Services in Madera reported that there were up to 12 feet of snow near China Peak, which led to the closing of Highway 168.

Flash flood warnings stretch about 400 miles across portions of Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. Most of the warnings will remain in effect through the morning.

More than half of the city was without power when it happened, with many homes, businesses and the city hall damaged.

Many communities blanketed by the last round of snow have yet to recover from the damage it has done, as snow blocked critical roads, trapped them in their homes and damaged vital businesses.

Lois Barton, 82, of Placer County, died in a snow-related incident in May, 2009, the state media reported

An 80-year-old woman, Lois Barton, died in a “weather-related” incident in Placer County, sheriff’s office spokesperson Angela Musallam told CNN. CNN said that the location of the incident where the death happened saw heavy snow and temperatures that were around freezing on Tuesday.

A number of structure fires in San Bernardino County appear to be storm-related, the county fire department told CNN. The department said the number of fires is “atypical” 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.

Rescuers are supplied with meals-ready-to-eat to distribute with those unable to get food, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said in a press conference on Friday. First responders will be setting up food distribution points and a convoy with food and other supplies to restock supermarkets will be escorted up the mountain, he added.

In the last week, Crestline has gotten nearly 100 inches of snow. 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 by shoveling walkways for emergency exits, Solo said. He added, “Everyone every day has been shoveling, and then it’ll snow another two feet.”