California, Nevada, and South Dakota: Severe Weather Forecasts with Snowfall and Forecast for Fargo, North Dakota, and Stateline, Nevada

The severe weather will create a potentially life threatening hazard for travelers that become stranded, individuals that work outdoors, and pets, as well as for livestock and pets, according to the weather forecast agency.

In California, 48 inches of snow fell in Twin Bridges in a 48-hour period, 46 inches fell in Tahoe-Donner, 45 inches in Donner Peak and 44 inches at Palsades Tahoe Ski Base.

There will be a severe storm threat for parts of the South and central US. A slight threat for severe weather has been issued for parts of western and central Kansas and Oklahoma into northwestern Texas.

Though the storm is walloping some areas with severe weather, it’s forecast to track across drought-stricken areas, bringing much needed relief – including to the Mississippi River Valley area, where excessive rainfall is possible Wednesday.

To the east, residents in Fargo, North Dakota, are expected to see snowfall over 6 inches and will be under a winter storm watch from late Monday night until late Wednesday night. It could see 6 inches of snow and is under a winter storm watch.

The Sierra Nevada Mountain Range has winter storm warnings in place where more than a foot of snow could fall before dawn.

The storm already made for icy and dangerous conditions on key roadways, with authorities on Saturday closing down a long stretch of Interstate 80, from Colfax in Northern California to Stateline, Nevada, due to “blowing snow & near-zero visibility,” Caltrans said on Twitter.

The National Weather Service office in Reno said that the snow is more than twice normal, but that they will not be changing their prediction for December.

“It looks a lot like Christmas out here,” Deutschendorf said. “It didn’t come with a lot of wind, and it stuck to everything. It is like a picture postcard.

While he noted the snow totals so far are impressive, Deutschendorf said he is “cautiously optimistic” about this precipitation putting a big dent in the state’s drought.

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On Sunday, the ski resort posted pictures of thick snow on the website, calling them “We are Buried.”

“This is definitely a storm to remember. We’ve now received 7.5 feet of snow since December 1st. We received more than a foot of snow in just 24 hours from Saturday morning to Sunday morning, making it the sixth largest snow total on record.

Travelers trying to get to their destinations for the holidays have been adversely affected by an extremely cold winter storm and gale-force winds.

The impacts are being felt hardest in Chicago and Denver, where around a quarter of arrivals and departures – hundreds of flights at each airport – were canceled on Thursday, FlightAware data show.

A notice from the Federal Aviation Administration said that at one point on Thursday there were delays of almost three hours at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport because of snow and ice.

Temperatures at the O’Hare dropped to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (-13 Celsius) around 5 p.m. local time. There was snow and freezing fog.

The FAA stated that de-icing fluid was required for safe travel on departing aircraft at Dallas Love, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver and Minneapolis airports.

“Flight activity at #LaGuardiaAirport may be disrupted by heavy rain and strong winds later today and Friday. Travelers, please confirm flight status with your airline before heading to the airport,” LaGuardia Airport posted on Twitter. John F. Kennedy and Newark Airport also posted similar notices.

For those whose flights are still scheduled to fly, the Transportation Security Administration is recommending that passengers arrive at the airport earlier than usual.

John Busch, Reagan National Airport’s federal security director, told reporters that all airports expect to be busy during the holiday season. We’ve already seen some of our busiest days, yesterday and today and we expect maybe Friday 30th ahead of the New Year’s holiday can be also a very busy day.”

Greyhound is Providing Travel Information to Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Wichita, and New York, the Long Island Rail Road in Clear Lake, Iowa

Maria Ihekwaba, who was traveling from Chicago to Clear Lake, Iowa, with her granddaughter on Thursday morning, told CNN she was trying to depart as soon as possible.

A traveler from San Diego told CNN she cut her trip short to visit her sister and brother-in-law because she didn’t want to be stuck in the weather.

“I was worried because San Diego, we don’t get these snowstorms,” she said. I do not want it to be stuck in the airport for long periods of time.

Greyhound had a service alert on Thursday that said trips in the Midwest or the upper Northeast may be canceled or disrupted.

In its alert posted here , the company lists nearly 20 cities as among those impacted. It advised passengers to check bustracker.greyhound.com for the latest information about specific journeys.

Chicago, Cleveland, Davenport, Iowa, Denver and Indianapolis are some of the large cities that are located in West Virginia. Minneapolis• St. Louis• Wichita, Kansas

Customers who book on trains that are being modified will typically be accommodated on trains with similar departure times or another day, according to the notice.

Hundreds of miles of road closure and flight cancellation were growing rapidly as all modes of travel were being disrupted. In New York, flooding along the Long Island Rail Road forced part of the Long Beach branch to temporarily shut down.

“Christmas is canceled,” said Mick Saunders, a Buffalo, New York, resident who was two hours into blizzard conditions that are expected to last through Sunday morning. “All family and friends agreed it’s safer this way.”

Three people killed in separate car crashes on icy roads in Kansas, a storm that destroyed power lines and left a few inches down the east coast

In north-central Kansas, three people were killed in separate car crashes on Wednesday evening; one death was confirmed to be weather-related, and two were believed to be weather-related but need more investigation, according to Kansas Highway Patrol spokesperson Lt. Candice Breshears.

The Kansas City Police Department said one person lost their life after losing control of their Dodge Caravan on icy roads. “The Dodge went down the embankment, over the cement retaining wall and landed upside down, submerged in Brush Creek,” police said in a statement.

In all, more than 200 million people in the US were under wind chill alerts from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and from Washington state to Florida, with below-zero wind chills expected in the Southeast by Friday. Other winter weather alerts are in effect for blizzard conditions, ice, snow as well as flooding.

As of Saturday afternoon, about 755,000 homes and businesses nationwide were without power due to an Arctic blast and winter storm that tore down power lines. The storm pummeled parts of the Upper Midwest and Northeast with heavy snow and blizzard conditions and flooding along the Northeast coast, on top of frigid temperatures.

The National Weather Service said its Watch Warning graphic depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever.

“I called it a kitchen sink storm because it is throwing everything at us but the kitchen sink,” Hochul said at a press conference Friday afternoon. “We’ve had ice, flooding, snow, freezing temperatures, and everything that mother nature could wallop at us this weekend.”

The storm was living up to the warnings at Brian Trzeciak’s home. Buffalo’s airport, just to the north, reported zero visibility shortly after noon on Friday.

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He said his mother and sister’s family live in the other direction. We all spend Christmas Eve and Christmas together, but we are hunkering down until Monday.

As it treks east across the country, the storm is expected to become a “bomb cyclone,” a rapidly strengthening storm which drops 24 millibars of pressure within 24 hours. As the storm moved into the Great Lakes, it was predicted to have the same pressure as a Category 2 storm.

Governors in at least 13 states, including Georgia and North Carolina in the South, have implemented emergency measures to respond to the storm. Declarations of a state of emergency in several states have included the activation of National Guard units.

• It will remain very cold: Friday will bring record-low temperatures in large swaths of the US, including from the Lower Mississippi Valley, northeastward into the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys and stretching across large sections of the east from the Southeast, through the Southern to Central Appalachians and into the mid-Atlantic, according to the National Weather Service.

WPLN’s Blake Farmer reported that as the front hit, parts of the South experienced wind chills of minus 20 degrees, and gusting winds knocked out power to thousands of homes across Tennessee and Kentucky. People were asked to stay home if they could.

• Whiteout conditions: Blizzard conditions may exist even if snowfall stops, because high winds can pick up snow already on the ground and cause low visibility.

The ice caused the closure of runways at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where nearly half of flights going into and out of the airport were canceled, according to FlightAware. Sound transit, the regional transportation network in the Seattle metro area, suspended express services Friday due to the icy conditions.

Northeast Oregon, including Portland, is also under a winter storm warning. Total snow and sleet accumulations of up to one inch and ice accumulations of .2 to .4 inches is likely as well as winds gusting to 55 mph. It’s possible to get frost-bitten on exposed skin in as short a time as 30 minutes.

Flight cancellations due to the Buffalo Airport Airfield: CNN’s Shane Phillips is disappointed by the cancellation of his Alaska Airlines flight last minute

“The Buffalo Airport Airfield has closed due to hazardous weather conditions,” and all flights scheduled for the evening have been cancelled, according to a tweet from the airport’s official Twitter account

There were ground stops Friday morning for flights headed for Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina and Reagan National Airport in DC because of deicing.

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The growing cancellations make it harder for passengers racing against the clock and weather to rebook and arrive in time for Christmas. The storm did not disrupt travel schedules, but the flights this year have been more crowded than in the past.

“We hear about how travel volume is still down, 5 or 10 percent, but what many folks might not have realized is that the number of flights in the sky is actually down more like 15 or 20 percent,” Scott Keyes of Scott’s Cheap Flights told CNN.

Shane Phillips told CNN he was set to fly from Los Angeles to Seattle to visit family, but when he woke up Friday morning, his Alaska Airlines flight had been canceled.

Phillips says he feels mostly disappointment but not a lot of surprise. “I knew the weather was supposed to be bad, but I was hoping I’d get in before the freezing rain hit,” he added.

If he hadn’t made it to Seattle, he would not have been able to attend the friend’s holiday party.

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The National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center said weekend “temperatures will be 25 to 35 degrees below average from east of the Rockies to the Appalachians.”

At least six people were reportedly killed in vehicle crashes, with at least four dead in a massive pileup on the Ohio Turnpike involving about 50 vehicles.

The arctic blast brought conditions to parts of the South not seen in a quarter century. In Nashville, temperatures fell below zero on Friday for the first time since 1996.

Meanwhile, WPLN’s Paige Pfleger reported that plunging temperatures are putting pressure on a power grid not accustomed to this cold, and that the Tennessee Valley Authority has asked local utilities to cut their electricity use. Customers in Nashville will experience 10-minute outages every few hours, until the power load stabilizes.

The task of restoring power in a storm like this is significant, according to the vice president of security and preparedness.

“Sometimes accessing these areas can be really challenging with downed power lines, with downed trees, with very icy roads. Go for it. If the wind is more than 35 miles an hour, it’s impossible for crews to go up in bucket trucks. “And so those combination of things will limit the ability of crews to get out there and get the power back on.”

In New Jersey, heavy rains and high winds downed power lines and sent floodwaters surging as high as 9 feet along the coast. Along the Hudson River, there were interior locations that were flooded.

“This is a life-threatening dangerous event,” Hochul said Friday afternoon at a news conference in Albany. “Protect yourselves, protect your families. You know it’s safe to travel if the roads are reopened.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/24/1145419116/winter-storm-travel-power-outage-dangerous-conditions

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“So that, unfortunately, really affects anyone who’s gotten a connecting flight, and we are going to see a lot of people missing connecting flights with these long delays,” he said.

Reporting from Bruce Konviser, WPLN’s Paige Pfleger and Blake Farmer, NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly and David Schaper and the Associated Press was used in this report.

The storm swept across the nation on Wednesday and caused days of delays and canceled flights, with reports of a phenomenon known as a “bomb cyclone” near the Great Lakes.

States and zip codes were listed on the service alert page. The previous warning was that some delivery and pickup services might be affected.

FedEx said that it had experienced substantial disruptions at two processing hubs and that it was possible for package deliveries in the US to be delayed through Monday, December 26.

The USPS temporarily shut down 89 of its post offices and Amazon temporarily closed some of its sites due to the storm.