Airports and highways are expected to be overcrowded during Thanksgiving week, which probably ends a holiday period another record day for air travel in the United States.
AAA predicts that nearly 80 million Americans will do so go at least 50 miles from home between Tuesday and next Monday, largely by car. However, travelers may experience persistent weather conditions and travelers flying to their destinations may be grounded by delays due to airline staffing shortages. a strike by airport service staff.
Here’s the latest:
Two people died in the Pacific Northwest after a rapidly increasing bomb cyclone ‘ hit the west coast last Tuesday and brought heavy wind causing trees and power lines to fall and homes and cars to be damaged. Hundreds of thousands of people lost electricity in Washington state before powerful winds and record rain hit Northern California.
Forecasters say the risk of flooding and mudslides remains as the region will receive more rain from Sunday. But the latest storm won’t be as intense as last week’s atmospheric rivera long plume of moisture that forms over an ocean and flows over land.
“However, there are still threats, smaller threats, and not as large in terms of magnitude, that will still exist on the West Coast for the next two or three days,” weather forecaster Rich Otto said.
As rain moves eastward throughout the week, Otto said, there is a chance of heavy snow at higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, as well as parts of Utah and Colorado.
California’s Mammoth Mountain, which received 0.6 meters of fresh snow during the recent storm, could receive another 1.2 meters before the latest system clears on Wednesday, the resort said.
Forecasts in the US say another round of winter weather could complicate travel ahead of Thanksgiving, as the states of California and Washington continue to recover from storm damage and power outages.
In California, where two people were found dead in flooding on Saturday, authorities braced for more rain as they battled flooding and small landslides from a previous storm.
Here are some regional predictions:
1. Sierra Nevada: The National Weather Service office has issued a winter storm warning through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at higher elevations and wind gusts possibly reaching 55 miles per hour. Total snowfall of around 1.2 meters was forecast, with the heaviest accumulations expected on Monday and Tuesday.
2. Midwest and Great Lakes: The Midwest and Great Lakes regions will see rain and snow on Monday, and the East Coast will be hardest hit over Thanksgiving and Black Friday, forecasters said.
3. East Coast: A low-pressure system is expected to bring rain to the southeast early Thursday before moving northeast. Areas from Boston to New York could experience rain and windy conditions, with snowfall possible in parts of northern New Hampshire, northern Maine and the Adirondacks. If the system moves further inland, less snow and more rain could fall in the mountains, forecasters said.
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