A single weather system has brought piles of snow to California, tornadoes to the South and severe winter weather to the Northeast in recent days.
According to multiple reports, at least a dozen people have died across the country due to the severe weather. As people continue to deal with the impact of the weather, more systems are expecting to bring heavy snow to multiple parts of the U.S. through Monday.
CBS News/Associated press said at least 12 people have died from the storms. CNN reported that 13 people had died.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced Saturday that five people in the state had died from the storms. He also said 400,000 people were left without power. Other deaths were reported in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.
CNN reported that the same storm system that “dumped feet of snow across parts of California,” has also “brought golf ball-sized hail and tornadoes to the South.”
KNX reported that the U.S. Forest Service announced a temporary closure of all forest lands in the San Bernardino National Forest Friday as California still reeled from its winter storm. In Northern California, San Francisco’s KCBS Radio reported that the Internal Revenue Service had even adjusted tax deadlines for Californians due to the storms.
CBS News/AP reported that “the Northeast and upper Midwest were digging out Saturday from heavy snowfall,” as other parts of the Midwest and the South were engaged in cleanup efforts related storm damage.
“Under 200,000 residents in Metro Detroit are without power Saturday afternoon as clean-up efforts continue more than 24 hours after wet, heavy snow rapidly accumulated on homes, roadways, powerlines and trees,” according to a Saturday WWJ report.
In Dallas, Texas, KRLD reported Friday that communities in Parker County had started cleaning up from Thursday thunderstorms. Also, the National Weather Service conducted surveys Friday to determine whether a tornado hit the city.
In Buffalo, N.Y., WBEN reported Friday that roads were already “mainly wet with a curb of slushy mess in spots and only an accumulation of a few inches on the ground across many locations across the Buffalo and Western New York region.” New York City was also bracing for slushy snow, according to WCBS.
Some areas in the Northeast expecting more than a foot of snow on Saturday, said CBS/AP. The storm could also bring as much as 18 inches of snow to parts of New Hampshire and Maine, said the report.
Snowy winter weather is expected to continue in many parts of the country through the weekend and into Monday.
“Upper-level energy associated with the front will produce heavy snow over the Sierra Nevada Mountains from Saturday evening into Sunday evening,” said the National Weather Service. “In addition, the system will create coastal rain and higher-elevation snow over the Pacific Northwest into Central/Southern California through late Sunday evening. Overnight Saturday, the snow moves into the Northern Intermountain.”
This weather is expected to move east.
“On Sunday, the storm moves out of the Rockies onto the Plains producing heavy snow over the Northern Plains. By Sunday evening, the storm moves into the Middle Mississippi Valley and the Ohio Valley by Monday evening. The heavy snow moves into the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Upper Great Lakes on Sunday evening into Monday evening. The system will also produce rain over parts of the Middle Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes/Ohio Valley,” said the service.
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