U.S. forecasters warned that another round of winter weather could complicate travel ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, with California and Washington states still recovering from storm damage and power outages.
A person was found dead in a flooded car in California on Saturday as authorities braced for more rain while dealing with flooding and small landslides. the storm before.
The National Weather Service office in Sacramento, Calif., issued a winter storm warning for the state's Sierra Nevada Mountains on Tuesday, predicting heavy snowfall in higher elevations and wind gusts that could reach 55 mph (88 kph). Total snowfall amounts are expected to be about 4 feet (1.2 meters), with the heaviest accumulations expected on Monday and Tuesday.
Forecasters say the Midwest and Great Lakes will see rain and snow on Monday, with the East Coast feeling the worst impacts on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
A low pressure system is expected to bring rain to the Southeast early Thursday before moving northeast. Rain and breezy conditions are possible from Boston to New York, with snow possible in parts of northern New Hampshire, northern Maine and the Adirondacks. Forecasters said if the system moves further inland, snowfall in the mountains could decrease and rainfall could increase.
“This system doesn't look like a strong system right now,” Hayden Frank, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Massachusetts, said Sunday. “Basically, it's going to bring rain to the I-95 corridor, so travelers should prepare for that.” Wet Weather Preparation. Unless the system is trending cooler, it will look like rain.
Deadly 'bomb cyclone' on West Coast
Storms killed two people last week Arriving in the Pacific Northwest. Hundreds of thousands of people were without power, mostly in the Seattle area, before strong winds blew through Northern California. The rapidly intensifying bomb cyclone “Last Tuesday's attack on the West Coast brought strong wind Causing damage to homes and vehicles.
Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Rob Dillion said rescuers found a body inside a vehicle rocked by floodwaters in Guernanville, Calif., around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. , noting that the deceased is presumed to have been a victim of the storm, but an autopsy has not yet been performed.
As of Friday night, Santa Rosa, California, had experienced its wettest three days on record, with about 12.5 inches (32 centimeters) of rain, according to the National Weather Service in the Bay Area. Vineyards near Windsor, California, were flooded on Saturday.
About 36,000 people in the Seattle area are still without power this weekend, following the strongest atmospheric river of the season (long currents of moist air that form over the ocean and flow over land).
Northeastern region needs precipitation
Another storm brought rain to New York and New Jersey, where rare wildfires have occurred in recent weeks, and heavy snow to northeastern Pennsylvania. Precipitation is expected to help alleviate drought conditions After an unusually dry autumn.
“It's not going to be a drought buster, but it will certainly help when all this melts,” said Brian Greenblatt, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Binghamton, New York.
It snowed heavily Northeastern Pennsylvania, including the Pocono Mountains. Snow accumulations of up to 17 inches (43 centimeters) were reported in higher elevations, with smaller amounts in valley cities such as Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. About 35,000 customers in 10 counties remained without power, down from 80,000 a day earlier.
In New York's Catskill region, nearly 10,000 people remained without power Sunday morning, two days after a storm brought heavy snow to parts of the region.
Precipitation in West Virginia has helped ease the state's worst drought in at least two decades and boosted ski resorts' preparations to open their slopes in the coming weeks.
Associated Press writer Claire Rush in Portland, Oregon, contributed to this report.
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