Second mega storm is set to wallop America this week: New powerful front will barrel through exactly the same
- The thousands of Americans still without power are being told to brace for a new winter storm that has been described as a ‘beast’
With thousands of Americans still without electricity in the wake of the deadly winter storms that struck across the country this week, meteorologists are predicting another one around the corner.
Forecasters say that more rain, anywhere from one to two inches, is due for the heavily hit Northeast from Friday and through until the weekend which will cause more problems for rivers which are already overflowing.
This new storm was responsible for the death of a man[2] who was killed following an avalanche in the Palisades Tahoe resort in Lake Tahoe. The first death of its kind this season.
The storm has moved from the Pacific Northwest and will spread through the Plains Thursday with National Weather Service warnings for major cities including Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago[3] and Grand Rapids. Some areas could see snow of up to a foot of snow.
The high regions of Arizona[4] and New Mexico[5] will also see heavy snowfall.
Meanwhile in the south, from Texas[6] to the Carolinas, including parts of Arkansas[7], Louisiana[8] and Mississippi[9], tornadoes are predicted as well large hail and destructive wind gusts.
The storm will then strengthen as it heads further east thanks to atmospheric energy.
At the same time, freezing air from Canada will move south and send temperatures plummeting in the north and central parts of the US. For example, Nebraska temperature will remain in the single digits throughout Friday and North Dakota will see a high of zero.
Flooding will be the major concern for Pennsylvania and New Jersey as well as parts of New England. The northern part of the region will see at least sleet by Saturday morning with further power outages feared.
The last storm, which started Tuesday night and was moving out Wednesday, washed out roads and took down trees and power lines. Wind gusts reached as high as 95 mph.
It followed a day of tornadoes and deadly accidents in the South and blizzards in the Midwest and Northwest. In some parts of the Pacific Northwest and the Rockies, more than two feet of snow fell.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm. Many streets and roads were flooded and rivers were rising after some areas got up to three inches rain since Tuesday night. The rain fell on ground saturated by another storm a few weeks ago.
Murphy said 56,000 homes were without power and several hundred accidents and highway assists were reported, but no storm deaths. He said people often ignore flood warnings, to their peril.
‘And we saw in the storm Ida, people pay with their lives by driving their cars into a street they shouldn’t have, or staying in their home when they shouldn’t have,’ Murphy said in an interview with CBS New York.
Flood waters are seen here along Washington Avenue in Highlands, New Jersey, on Wednesday morning
Diggers can be seen trying to push back the battered coastline to keep the water at bay in Westport, Massachusetts
The National Weather Service has issued flood warning areas across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
In Long Island’s Nassau County, cars sloshed through water in the streets of Freeport. Farther east, near the Hamptons, the National Weather Service reported major flooding out of Shinnecock Bay.
Several schools across Long Island were either canceling or delaying classes as a result of the storm.
New York City officials evacuated nearly 2,000 migrants housed at a sprawling tent complex before the storm hit amid fears it could collapse in high winds.
Photos showed the migrant families sleeping on the floor of a Brooklyn high school, whose students were forced to go remote on Wednesday as a result of the brief relocation.
The migrants returned to the tent complex around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday after the winds had subsided, officials said.
A couple of Pennsylvania communities got more than 4 inches of rain, and others came close.
Emergency responders rescued some drivers as roads flooded in low-lying areas, and downed trees and wires cut power to thousands of customers.
Forecasters said several rivers in eastern Pennsylvania saw at least moderate flooding.
A dam breach in Bozrah, Connecticut, prompted mandatory evacuation orders Wednesday for several areas along the Yantic River, Norwich officials said.
A power company shut down a substation along the river, leaving about 5,000 homes and businesses without power.
Iowa State Police shared images on social media of one of their vehicles that crashed on the I-80
People stand on an large snow pile in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024
Zach Brobst shovels in his driveway after a snowstorm left several inches of snow in Clive, Iowa, U.S., January 9, 2024
The storm canceled events and government functions in Maine, where some areas were still recovering from a snowstorm over the weekend and flooding the previous month.
Winds gusted to 95 mph at Maine’s Isle au Haut, an island in Penobscot Bay, said Jon Palmer from the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine.
At the state’s largest airport, high winds pushed an empty passenger aircraft into a jet bridge Portland Jetport officials said Wednesday. No one was hurt.
At parking lot near Widgery Wharf on the Portland’s waterfront, lobstermen attempted to turn back some of the flooding using pumps.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills encouraged residents to stay off the roads amid flash flood warnings.
‘Please be sure to give plow trucks, utility crews, and emergency first responders plenty of space as they work to keep us safe,’ she said.
In Vermont, the storm brought wind gusts of up to 70 mph and heavy, wet snow followed by rain, leaving nearly 30,000 homes without power Wednesday morning. Many schools were closed or had delayed openings.
Slushy highways led to fatal collisions in Wisconsin and another in Michigan.
The storm, which began Monday, buried cities across the Midwest, stranding people on highways. Some areas saw up to a foot of snow on Monday, including Kansas, eastern Nebraska and South Dakota, western Iowa, and southwestern Minnesota.
Madison, Wisconsin, expected much as 9 inches of snow and 40 mph winds.
The remnants of East Beach Road are damaged after heavy overnight winds and surf battered the coastline, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 in Westport, Massachusetts
Water rises at a residential area in an aftermath of a storm in Piermont, New York, U.S., January 10, 2024
The weather has already affected campaigning for Iowa’s Jan. 15 precinct caucuses, where the snow is expected to be followed by frigid temperatures that could drift below zero degrees.
Forecasters warned snow-struck regions of the Midwest and the Great Plains that temperatures could plunge dangerously low because of wind chill, dipping to around minus 20 and even far lower in Chicago, Kansas City and some areas of Montana.
Several deaths have been blamed on storms that struck the area with heavy rain, tornado reports, hail and wind.
Survey teams were heading out Wednesday in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to determine whether tornadoes struck, National Weather Service officials said.
An 81-year-old woman in Alabama was killed when her mobile home was tossed from its foundation by a suspected tornado.
A man died south of Atlanta when a tree fell on his car. Another person died in North Carolina after a suspected tornado struck a mobile home park.
Roofs were blown off homes, and furniture, fences and debris were strewn about during the height of the storm in the South.
Many areas of Florida remained under flood watches, warnings and advisories early Wednesday amid concerns that streams and rivers were topping their banks.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, who gave his State of the State address Tuesday with tornado warnings in effect, issued an executive order to include 49 counties in North Florida under a state of emergency.
Rescuers in Virginia pulled two people from floodwaters, where they clung to branches after their vehicle flooded and they were then swept from its roof, according to the Albemarle County Fire Rescue.
They weren’t injured but were in the water for at least 10 minutes, according to spokesperson Abbey Stumpf.
Storms in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains dumped snow, including 29 inches at Stevens Pass in Washington and 30 inches outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, according to the National Weather Service.
Authorities issued warnings for very dangerous avalanche conditions in mountainous areas of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Washington and Oregon.
Backcountry travelers were advised to stay off steep slopes and away from the bottom of steep slopes.
In areas of northern Montana, temperatures could drop below minus 30 degrees by Saturday morning. High temperatures were expected to remain below freezing as far south as Oklahoma.
References
- ^ Paul Farrell For Dailymail.Com (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ death of a man (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Chicago (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Arizona (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Mexico (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Texas (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Arkansas (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Louisiana (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Mississippi (www.dailymail.co.uk)