AP – Another round of wintry weather could complicate travel leading up to the upcoming holiday, according to forecasts across the United States (US), while California and Washington state continue to recover from storm damage and power outages.
In California, where two people were found dead in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more rain while grappling with flooding and small landslides from a previous storm.
The National Weather Service office in Sacramento, California, issued a winter storm warning for the Sierra Nevada, with heavy snow expected at higher elevations and wind gusts potentially reaching 88 kilometres per hour (kph). Total snowfall of roughly 1.2 metres was forecast, with the heaviest accumulations expected today. The Midwest and Great Lakes regions will see rain and snow and the East Coast will be the most impacted this weekend, forecasters said.
A low pressure system is forecast to bring rain to the Southeast early on Thursday before heading to the Northeast. Areas from Boston to New York could see rain and breezy conditions, with snowfall possible in parts of northern New Hampshire, northern Maine and the Adirondacks. If the system tracks further inland, there could be less snow and more rain in the mountains, forecasters said.
“The system doesn’t look like a powerhouse right now,” meteorologist with the weather service in Massachusetts Hayden Frank said on Sunday. “Basically, this is going to bring rain to the I-95 corridor so travellers should prepare for wet weather. Unless the system trends a lot colder, it looks like rain.”
