Heavy rain and snow are hitting the northeast today United States, causing power outages and the cancellation of hundreds of flights, at a time when the west coast is also being tested by two storms and an unusually wet winter.
“Double storm! One on each coast”the US Weather Service (NWS) warned of possible “major flooding in California” and “the danger, if not the impossibility, of traveling in the Northeast due to snow and coastal flooding».
In the northeast, “The most significant impacts are expected until Tuesday night into Wednesday” with “heavy snowfalls” and “strong winds,” the NWS warned.
“If there is no need to drive, do us a favor and stay off the roads. There’s power lines everywhere, trees everywhere and it’s going to be difficult,” local police warned in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where up to 71 centimeters of snow fell.
This dual phenomenon on both coasts, rather rare in the United States, comes after several extreme weather events, including a series of storms in January in California that killed 20 people and very heavy snowfall in late December in and around Buffalo. area of, upstate New York, which caused at least 39 people to lose their lives.
Although it is difficult to establish a direct link with climate change, scientists regularly explain that warming increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.
Schools closed, elections cancelled
THE bad weather and strong winds are causing power outages in the Northeast today, affecting more than 240,000 households, according to the specialized website poweroutage.us and as relayed by the Athens News Agency.
Several hundred flights have been delayed or canceled, disruptions mostly involving New York’s LaGuardia Airport or Boston’s, according to the website FlightAware. In the city of Syracuse, near the border with Canada, passengers had to evacuate a plane that had gone off the runway. The airport clarified that there were no injuries.
Schools were closed in the states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, where dozens of local elections scheduled for Tuesday were postponed.
In California, torrential rains can cause “major flooding across much of the California coast and central valley, as well as the southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada”the NWS warned.
Meteorologists warned of a high risk of avalanches. “Heavy snowfall, rain on snow and strong winds will overload the snowpack,” adds the NWS.
The coastal state has already faced similar problems in recent weeks.
This weekend, homes were flooded and cars submerged after the overflowing Pajaro River breached a levee overnight Friday into Saturday, forcing thousands to flee their homes south of San Francisco.
Evacuation orders were also issued in Santa Barbara County, in the south of the state, including parts of the upscale coastal community of Montecito, where Prince Harry and his wife Meghan live.
California, the nation’s most populous state with 39 million residents, is suffering from a particularly rainy winter.
The present storm is enhanced, like most others at this time, by one “atmospheric river”a giant rain corridor that carries water vapor stored in the tropics, often around Hawaii.
Source: News Beast
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