{"id":3393,"date":"2023-01-04T06:12:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T12:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2023-03-15T03:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:40:22","slug":"as-a-storm-system-barrels-across-central-us-with-tornadoes-flooding-and-snow-another-threatens-west-coast-with-more-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3393","title":{"rendered":"<strong>As a storm system barrels across Central US with tornadoes, flooding and snow, another threatens West Coast with more floods<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two major storm systems are threatening the US this week.<br \/>\nA massive,\u00a0multi-hazard storm\u00a0was barreling east across the country Tuesday, impacting much of the central and eastern US and threatening the South with strong tornadoes and flooding and parts of the Plains and Upper Midwest with ice and snow.<br \/>\nAnd as California\u2002recovers from the weekend\u2019s deadly floods, a second storm system is coming onshore that\u2019s threatening the state with powerful winds and more flooding, triggered by both the expected rainfall and the state\u2019s already wet soil.<br \/>\n\u201cMajor wind and rain impacts are EXPECTED tomorrow into Thursday. Prepare now for flooding, downed trees and power outages,\u201d the National Weather Service in San Francisco\u00a0warned.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the storm system that\u2019s tracking east is pulling moisture from the Gulf of Mexico into the South, where above-normal temperatures have set the stage for severe thunderstorms.<br \/>\nBy Tuesday evening, several areas were reporting record-high temperatures. Mobile, Alabama, tied its\u2002daily high temperature\u00a0for January 3 with a high of 79 degrees Fahrenheit, a record set in 1989. And Pensacola, Florida,\u00a0broke its daily high\u00a0record for January 3 with 81 degrees Fahrenheit, beating the prior record of 79 set three years ago.<br \/>\n30 million under weather threats, including tornadoes, flooding<br \/>\nNearly 30 million people are under some sort of severe weather threat in the South, with the highest risk near the Gulf Coast. Southern Mississippi and Alabama were under a level 3 out of 5 \u201cenhanced\u201d risk for severe weather.\u00a0Places like Montgomery, Mobile and Tuscaloosa could all see strong storms. A level 2 out of 5 \u201cslight\u201d risk of severe weather covered New Orleans, Atlanta, Birmingham and Baton Rouge.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday evening, the weather service\u2002said\u00a0it was monitoring two areas of thunderstorms that posed threats of wind and hail to the New Orleans area.<br \/>\nTornado watches covered much of southern Alabama and Georgia Tuesday evening with additional storms developing in Louisiana and Mississippi.<br \/>\nMultiple waves of severe weather are possible in this region through the day, the Storm Prediction Center warned, \u201cwith the risk expected to persist well into the night across much of the area.\u201d<br \/>\nTrack the storm:\u00a0Radar, weather alerts, travel delays and more<br \/>\nStrong tornadoes, large hail and wind gusts topping 70 mph are possible in the most extreme thunderstorms.<br \/>\n\u201cSevere convection with all three modes (tornadoes, hail and damaging winds) is likely,\u201d the National Weather Service office in Mobile warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/03\/weather\/severe-storm-tornado-threat-south-tuesday\/index.html\">Cnn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two major storm systems are threatening the US this week. A massive,\u00a0multi-hazard storm\u00a0was barreling east across the country Tuesday, impacting much of the central and eastern US and threatening the South with strong tornadoes and flooding and parts of the Plains and Upper Midwest with ice and snow. And as California\u2002recovers from the weekend\u2019s deadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1392,3409,1817,1218,1391,3485],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-barrels","tag-flood","tag-snowfall","tag-storm","tag-system","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}