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More rain and snow in US could impact Thanksgiving travel, forecasters warn | American weather
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More rain and snow in US could impact Thanksgiving travel, forecasters warn | American weather

Forecasters in the US warned that another round of winter weather could complicate travel ahead of Thanksgiving, as the states of California and Washington continue to recover from storm damage and power outages.

In California, where a person was found dead in a submerged vehicle on Saturday, authorities braced for more precipitation as they dealt with flooding and small landslides from an earlier storm.

The National Weather Service in Sacramento, California, has issued a winter storm warning for the state’s Sierra Nevada from Saturday through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at higher elevations and wind gusts possibly reaching 55 miles per hour. Total snowfall of around 1.2 meters was forecast, with the heaviest accumulations expected on Monday and Tuesday.

The Midwest and Great Lakes regions will see rain and snow on Monday, and the East Coast will be hardest hit on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, forecasters said.

Truck drives through floodwaters on a road in Guerneville, California. Photo: John G Mabanglo/EPA

A low-pressure system is expected to bring rain to the southeast early Thursday before moving northeast. Areas from Boston to New York could experience rain and windy conditions, with snowfall possible in parts of northern New Hampshire, northern Maine and the Adirondacks. If the system moves further inland, less snow and more rain could fall in the mountains, forecasters said.

“The system doesn’t look like a powerhouse right now,” Hayden Frank, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Massachusetts, said Sunday. “In principle, this will bring rain to the I-95 corridor, so travelers should prepare for wet weather. Unless the system gets much colder, it will look like rain.”

Frank said he doesn’t see any major storm systems arriving anywhere in the country this weekend, so travelers heading home on Sunday can expect good driving conditions. However, temperatures will get colder in the east, while warming in the west.

About 36,000 people in the Seattle area were still without electricity after the season’s strongest atmospheric river, a long plume of moisture that forms over an ocean and flows over land.

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What is an atmospheric river? And other weather terms explained

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What is an atmospheric river? And other weather terms explained

Here’s a quick look at the different types of storms that have hit the west coast of North America this winter.

Atmospheric river

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls these “rivers in the sky” for good reason. Characterized by long streams of moisture in the atmosphere, the average atmospheric river carries an amount of water vapor that rivals the flow at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River – and strong rivers can hold up to 15 times that amount. That moisture is released as rain or snow when ARs make landfall and is usually accompanied by strong, gusty winds, which increases their destructive tendencies.

Pineapple Express

These particularly strong atmospheric rivers are named after their origin. Pineapple Express storms are known to pull moisture from the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii and cause deluges of precipitation when they reach the west coast of the US and Canada – dumping about 5 inches of rain on California in one day, according to the National Ocean. Employ.

Bomb cyclone

These low-pressure storm systems help create atmospheric rivers, pushing them from the Pacific Ocean toward the coast. Unlike hurricanes or other storms where the center is strongest, bomb cyclones can produce the worst weather at the edges.

El Nino

This is a climate pattern characterized by unusually warm ocean surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Together with its counterpart La Niña – which in turn refers to a period of colder than average sea surface temperatures – these patterns can influence weather around the world. Although the weather is not always the same, El Niño is associated with warmer temperatures and generally brings drier conditions in the northern US and Canada, and wetter conditions – which brings a greater risk of flooding – in the south.

– Gabrielle Canon, US Climate and Extreme Weather Correspondent

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Another storm brought rain to New York and New Jersey, where rare wildfires have raged in recent weeks, and heavy snow to northeastern Pennsylvania. The precipitation was expected to help alleviate the drought after an exceptionally dry autumn.

“It won’t be drought relief, but it will certainly help if this all melts,” said Bryan Greenblatt, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Binghamton, New York.

Heavy snow fell across northeastern Pennsylvania, including the Pocono Mountains. Higher heights reported up to 17 inches, with smaller accumulations in valley cities including Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. About 35,000 customers in ten provinces are still without power, compared to 80,000 a day ago.

In the Catskills region of New York, nearly 10,000 people were without power Sunday morning, two days after a storm dumped heavy snow on parts of the region.

Rainfall in West Virginia put a dent in the state’s worst drought in at least two decades and boosted ski areas preparing to open their slopes in the coming weeks.