A winter storm brings heavy snow and hazardous travel conditions to the East Coast, while California prepares for life-threatening fire weather due to strong winds and dry conditions.
A winter storm moved east today from the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic, producing heavy to moderate snow and making travel hazardous with icy roads. Winter alerts covered 62 million people stretching from Illinois to southern New Jersey. Nearly 18 inches of snow fell in central Kansas, and parts of upstate New York were buried in over 6 feet of snow.
As much of the country braved horizontal snow flurries and frigid temperatures, California faced the flip side of such winter treachery — warm days, dry winds and their dreaded sum: fire weather. The forecast is not that unusual, especially after back-to-back winters of prodigious rain and snow. The National Weather Service, however, calls for 'extreme fire weather' tomorrow and Wednesday that will be caused by a 'life-threatening and destructive windstorm,' according to its regional messaging. A red flag warning is in effect for more than 18 million people today, according to the weather service. It signals a forecast of winds greater than 20 mph and relative humidity of less than 25%, among other factors, and it is the weather service's most dire alert for fire conditions. For tomorrow and Wednesday, the weather service's Oxnard, California, office forecasts 80 mph to 100 mph offshore winds in the mountains of Los Angeles and Ventura counties and 50 mph to 80 mph offshore winds for the coastal flatlands, inland valleys, and omnipresent canyons of the Los Angeles area. The weather service's San Diego office said the winds and warmth could linger through Thursday for parts of Southern California such as Orange County and the Inland Empire, where gusts of 50 mph were also forecast.High wind warnings were otherwise scheduled from tomorrow morning through Wednesday for urban Southern California from Ventura County to the Mexico borde
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