Monday will be a crazy day for heavy winter weather. In the central US, a strong storm will bring heavy snow and blizzard conditions, and in the southeast, flash floods, heavy rain, and possibly tornadoes are on the way.
The very strong storm is moving from the southwest to the northeast through midweek, bringing with it almost every type of winter weather threat you can think of, such as strong winds, possible tornadoes, major flooding, snow, and blizzards.
Already, the system is making it hard to visit places. As the storm moved through the Four Corners area on Sunday, dangerous road conditions and crashes caused by the weather in Arizona shut down parts of I-40, and officials warned people not to drive unless they had to.
Early Monday morning, the heart of the storm was still over the Four Corners, where snow was still falling. The storm will get stronger as it moves into the Southern Plains this morning. In some places, a fierce blizzard or whiteout is likely to happen.
The storm will also have an effect on the Gulf Coast and Southeast starting Monday afternoon and going through Tuesday. Nearly 70 million people there are at risk for severe weather, such as tornadoes, high winds, and flooding rain.
The storm will hit cities like New Orleans, Louisiana, Gulfport, Mississippi, and Mobile, Alabama, Monday afternoon and overnight. It’s likely that a few tornadoes will happen.
The storm will move quickly and cover more than 1,800 miles in 72 hours. It will bring heavy snow to more than six states.
Last weekend, a strong storm dumped more than a foot of snow on the Northeast. This winter weather comes after that storm, which brought rain, snow, ice, and a tornado from the Gulf Coast to Maine. There was as much snow as 18 inches in some places, like Salem, New Hampshire, and Milton, New York.
A growing number of flight delays and cancellations are being caused by the weather and the fact that some Boeing jets had to be grounded after a piece of one of them broke off in the air during an Alaska Airlines flight last week.
The website FlightAware says that on Sunday, more than 6,000 flights into, out of, or within the US were delayed, and at least 828 US planes were canceled.
Some airports have said that there have been major problems with their operations. Bradley International Airport, which is close to Hartford, Connecticut, said on Sunday that 20% of its flights had been canceled because of snow clearing work.
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Over 1,000 miles, from Arizona to Wisconsin, people are being warned about a winter storm as it moves through the area.
People in parts of New Mexico, eastern Colorado, the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, western Kansas, and southwest Nebraska could see up to a foot of snow starting Monday morning. Blizzard warnings are still in place.
It is thought that the system will quickly get stronger into a very strong January storm that will have big effects east of the Rockies.
On Monday afternoon, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama will feel how strong the storm is. In this part of the country, tornadoes are very possible, and 3 to 5 inches of rain could cause flooding.
The same storm is expected to move further east on Tuesday. Cities like Tallahassee, Florida, Albany, Georgia, and Panama City, Florida are more likely to have severe weather in the early morning and throughout the afternoon.
The central and southern Plains will have bad vision and almost impossible driving conditions on Monday, and the Midwest will have the same on Tuesday. Some places in the Plains will also have wind chill values below zero degrees because of the strong winds.
Then, heavy snow will fall in the deep Northeast on Tuesday afternoon and evening.
It will not just be snow and cold that people will have to worry about as the storm moves northeast, gets stronger, and covers most of the eastern half of the US by the middle of the week. There is also a big risk of flooding, damaging winds, and storms.
Storms with harmful winds and a few strong tornadoes are more likely to happen along the Gulf Coast because the air is warm and wet.
Nineteen million people from Texas to Florida are at risk of a very bad storm on Monday. From the Florida Panhandle to the North Carolina Outer Banks, more than 35 million people are at the same level of danger on Tuesday.
Along with the danger of heavy rain, there is also the chance of major flooding from the storm’s strong winds that bring water ashore. The Southeast is under a flood watch on Monday, and the Northeast is under one on Tuesday.
“Widespread and possibly major river and flash flooding are likely early this week from the central Gulf Coast through much of the Eastern U.S.,” the Weather Prediction Center said. “Coastal flooding will happen along the eastern Gulf Coast and much of the East Coast because of strong winds coming from the land.”
From the Gulf Coast to New England, it will rain between 1 and 3 inches, with some places getting more than 4 inches.
The next wave of rain is coming right after the first snowstorm, which dumped more than half a foot of snow in several Northeast states. This makes people very worried about floods in those areas.
Heavy rain will speed up the melting of snow and increase the amount of water that runs off into waterways. This will make these places less likely to flood. Because of this, there is a Level 3 out of 4 chance that parts of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania will flood on Tuesday. From Georgia to Massachusetts, which is almost the whole path of the first storm, there is a Level 2 or 4 danger.
Along the western coast of Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, there is also a Level 3 or 4 risk of flooding because of the first round of rain on Monday.
The rain is both a blessing and a worry for Louisiana and Mississippi, which are still dealing with severe droughts. However, the drought has already gotten a lot better since November thanks to the recent overflow of rain.
Along the Gulf Coast, from New Orleans to Tallahassee, Florida, it has rained more than 5 inches more than usual since December 1. The ground is already very wet, so it won’t take much for it to flood.
Wind is another problem when the ground is wet. It makes trees more likely to fall over and hit homes or power lines. And the winds will be strong enough to hurt so many things.
The weather service said that strong winds on the warm side of the storm could reach more than 50 miles per hour and cause damage from the Appalachians to the East Coast. People were also told to “prepare for power outages” because the winds could be dangerous.
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Near the coast, the waves will be the strongest.
In the Southern Plains, high wind alerts have been sent to more than 60 million people, and more are expected to be added soon. The Boston office of the National Weather Service also said that coastal places might need to be warned of hurricane-force winds, which are winds like a Category 1 hurricane. This is in case the worst predictions about the storm came true.
High waves of 8 to 11 feet will be caused by the winds, and the beach could get washed away in large areas. Also, dangerous rip currents are expected to keep going at least until the middle of the week.
There won’t be any more storms until the end of the week, but another one could follow a similar path and hit some of the same places later this week and into the weekend.
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