The first major U.S. winter storm system of the year dumped a frosty mix of snow, freezing rain, and sleet from the Northern Plains to the Upper Great Lakes region on Tuesday while posing a tornado and flood threat to a large swath of the South. | Reuters
The wintry blast, expected to spread into New England by Wednesday, was part of a larger weather front bringing heavy showers and a chance of severe thunderstorms, hail and tornadoes to the lower Mississippi Valley, Gulf Coast, Tennessee Valley and southern Appalachians.
“It’s all part of the same system. The heavy snowfall is occurring on the west to northern side of the storm … and then the rainfall and severe weather is across the south,” NWS meteorologist Allison Santorelli said. On the West Coast, northern California braced for another bout of heavy rain and flooding from an “atmospheric river” of dense moisture. It was expected to bring drenching rains and the possibility of renewed flooding to northern and central California, starting on Wednesday.Heavy snow was expected to was expected to return to the Sierra Nevada mountains on Wednesday, along with coastal rain and higher-elevation snow in the Pacific Northwest.
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