WINDSOR, Calif. — Forecasters through the U.S. issued warnings that another round of winter weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, while California and Washington continue to recover from storm damage and power outages.
In California, where a person was found dead in a vehicle submerged in floodwaters Saturday, authorities braced for more precipitation while grappling with flooding and small landslides from a previous storm.
The National Weather Service office in Sacramento, Calif., issued a winter storm warning for the state’s Sierra Nevada through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at higher elevations and wind gusts potentially reaching 55 mph. Total snowfall of roughly 4 feet was forecast, with the heaviest accumulations expected Monday and Tuesday.
The Midwest and Great Lakes regions will see rain and snow Monday, and the East Coast will be the most impacted on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, forecasters said.
Rain for East Coast’s I-95 corridor
A low-pressure system is forecast to bring rain to the Southeast early 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 farther inland, there could be less snow and more rain in the mountains, forecasters said.
“The system doesn’t look like a powerhouse right now,” Hayden Frank, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Massachusetts, said Sunday. “Basically, this is going to bring rain to the I-95 corridor, so travelers should prepare for wet weather. Unless the system trends a lot colder, it looks like rain.”
Frank said he isn’t seeing any major storm systems arriving for the weekend anywhere in the country, so travelers heading home Sunday can expect good driving conditions. Temperatures, however, will get colder in the East while warming up out West.
