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Travelers wait in line to check in at the Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, in Los Angeles. More than 43 million people are to travel over the long holiday weekend, according to AAA. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Travelers wait in line to check in at the Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, in Los Angeles. More than 43 million people are to travel over the long holiday weekend, according to AAA. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A man sleeps at the Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, in Los Angeles. More than 43 million people are to travel over the long holiday weekend, according to AAA. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Passengers board a BoltBus during a light rain, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013 in New York. A wall of storms packing ice, sleet and rain could upend holiday travel plans as millions of Americans take to the roads, skies and rails Wednesday for Thanksgiving. So far, the deadly storms barreling into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast have not resulted in many flight delays or cancellations, but forecasters were expecting the weather to worsen throughout the day. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Tara Fitzsimons, a 20-year-old student who is traveling to Chicago, reads a book on her iPad while waiting in line to check in at the Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, in Los Angeles. More than 43 million people are to travel over the long holiday weekend, according to AAA. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Passengers wait for a BoltBus to arrive during a light rain, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013 in New York. A wall of storms packing ice, sleet and rain could upend holiday travel plans as millions of Americans take to the roads, skies and rails Wednesday for Thanksgiving. So far, the deadly storms barreling into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast have not resulted in many flight delays or cancellations, but forecasters were expecting the weather to worsen throughout the day. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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CHICAGO (AP) — Bands of heavy rain, ice and snow were upending some holiday travel plans on the East Coast as millions of Americans took to the roads, skies and rails Wednesday for Thanksgiving, but the wintry mix was not causing the widespread gridlock that had been feared.
So far, the storms barreling over the mid-Atlantic and Northeast have not sent flight delays or cancellations rippling out beyond the region to other parts of the nation’s air network, and forecasters said the storm would start to loosen its grip on the East Coast as the day wore on.
“Yes, I’m worried,” said Sylvia Faban, an 18-year-old college freshman waiting to launch into the heart of the wintry mess in New York from Chicago, where skies were a clear crystal blue. She and a few travel buddies could do little more than slump down on top of their bags at O’Hare International Airport and wait.
“I’m checking the weather in New York,” she said as her fingers pecked at her smartphone.
As of early Wednesday, more than 230 flights to, from or within the United States had been canceled, according to the air tracking website FlightAware.com. Most of the scrapped flights were in or out of three major Northeast hubs: Newark Liberty International, Philadelphia International and LaGuardia.
Some of the longest delays were affecting Philadelphia-bound flights, which were being held up at their points of origin for an average of about two hours because of the weather, according to website. The Philadelphia area was under a flood watch with 2-3 inches of rain forecast to fall before colder temperatures turn precipitation to snow.
Roads there were snarled. A multi-vehicle crash closed the westbound lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway — Interstate 76 — in the Philadelphia area after eastbound lanes were closed due to flooding on what is traditionally the year’s busiest travel day. One lane was later reopened in both directions.
The storm system that developed in the West over the weekend has been blamed in at least 11 deaths, five of them in Texas. But as the storm moved east it wasn’t as bad as feared.
A large area of rain was spreading over the Northeast and was expected to gradually move out into the Atlantic and the Canadian Maritimes as the day wore on. Wind was a concern, especially Wednesday morning in Boston. Parts of southeast New England were under a high-wind warning with the potential for wind gusts of up to 60 mph, said Chris Vaccaro, spokesman for the National Weather Service headquarters in Silver Spring, Md.
There was a residual band of snow behind the storm that, as of Wednesday morning, was stretching from western Pennsylvania to West Virginia and into parts of the southeast. It was expected to pivot into parts of the Mid-Atlantic by Wednesday night.
“This is a fairly typical storm for this time of year,” Vaccaro said. “Obviously, it’s ill-timed because you have a lot of rain and snowfall in areas where people are trying to move around town or fly or drive out of town … but fortunately, we’re at this point going to start seeing a steady improvement in conditions across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.”
More than 43 million people are to travel over the long holiday weekend, according to AAA. About 39 million of those will be on the roads, while more than 3 million people are expected to filter through airports. The weather could snarl takeoffs and landings at some of the busiest hubs on the East Coast, including New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Boston and Charlotte, N.C.
Transportation officials advised travelers to check with their airlines and reduce speed on highways. Travel experts suggested airline passengers might be able to have penalty fees waived if they wanted to change their bookings because of the weather.
Weather woes aside, there were some things for travelers to be happy about this year. The Federal Aviation Administration last month lifted restrictions on the use of most personal electronic devices during takeoffs and landings, and some airlines, including American, have already begun allowing passengers to stay powered up from gate to gate.
“I’m always down for Wi-Fi,” said a jazzed-up Chris Reichert, a 20-year-old film student at Northwestern University who was headed from Chicago to Baltimore.
His excitement was lost in the generational gap with some older passengers such as Phyllis Dolinko, 79, of Highland Park, Ill., who was bound for LaGuardia.
“I have a cellphone (but) I really wouldn’t do that anyway,” she said of using in-flight services to browse the Web. “That’s discourteous,” she sniffed.
Her main weather concern was not that she wouldn’t be able to make it to New York City to see her family (her flight was listed on time), but rather that high winds on turkey day might prevent the city from sending up giant balloons for the parade.
Most of the country was spared by the weather, and many travelers were pre-occupied by nothing more than whether they’d make a tight connection. Travelers at O’Hare were even surprised by how quiet and orderly it was.
Others, like Pat Wilson in suburban Detroit, were just excited to set off on a new journey.
She and her immediate family have never ventured from home before for Thanksgiving, but decided to get on an Amtrak train from Dearborn to Chicago after her 9-year-old granddaughter said she really wanted to go there.
“She requested it,” said Wilson, 65, adding that the visit will almost certainly include a stop at the city’s American Girl store, a mecca for girls who are fans of the specialty dolls.
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Associated Press Writers Don Babwin in Chicago, Jeff Karoub in Dearborn, Mich., and Kristi Eaton in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.
WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) — As a powerful tornado bore down on their Illinois farmhouse, Curt Zehr’s wife and adult son didn’t have time to do anything but scramble into their basement.
Uninjured, the pair looked out moments later to find the house gone. Their home on the outskirts of Washington, Ill., was destroyed Sunday by one of the dozens of tornadoes and intense thunderstorms that swept across the Midwest in a swift-moving line of violent weather that killed at least eight people and unleashed powerful winds that flattened entire neighborhoods, flipped over cars and uprooted trees.
“They saw (the tornado) right there and got in the basement,” said a stunned Zehr, pointing to the farm field near the rubble that had been his home.
Washington Mayor Gary Manier estimated that 250 to 500 homes had been damaged or destroyed. It wasn’t clear when residents would be allowed to return.
“Everybody’s without power, but some people are without everything,” Manier told reporters in the parking lot of a destroyed auto parts store and near a row of flattened homes.
“How people survived is beyond me,” he said.
The unusually powerful late-season wave of thunderstorms brought damaging winds and tornadoes to 12 states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and western New York.
Illinois was the hardest hit, with at least six people killed and dozens more injured. Authorities said Monday that two other deaths occurred in Michigan.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn promised all the assistance the state could provide to victims of what he said were the deadliest November tornadoes in state history.
“We’re all in this together,” Quinn said.
The governor and others said the search for anybody trapped in the rubble continued, but officials doubted that the death toll would climb. Illinois Emergency Management Agency Director Jonathon Monken said rescuers had just one field left to search in Washington before they can say with confidence that everyone has been accounted for.
The six people who died in Illinois included an 80-year-old man and his 78-year-old sister who were killed by a twister that hit their farmhouse near the rural community of New Minden. A third person died in Washington, while three others perished in Massac County in the far southern part of the state, authorities said.
One of the Massac County victims was identified as 63-year-old Scholitta Burrus of Brookport, Ill.
“They found her over there buried amid the destruction,” McCracken County Deputy Coroner Ryan Johnston said.
Moments before the tornado struck his home in Washington, Jim Svymbersky went into his basement to retrieve his weather radio — a simple act that may have spared his life.
“Saved by a weather radio,” he said Monday outside a supply store where he was picking up plywood to board up blown-out windows.
Washington, a town of 16,000 about 140 miles southwest of Chicago, appeared to have suffered the most severe damage. The tornado cut a path about an eighth of a mile wide from one side of town to the other, state trooper Dustin Pierce said.
Of the roughly 200 people who were injured, 120 of them were in Washington when the tornado struck, officials said.
Across farm fields a little more than a mile from where Zehr’s home once stood, several blocks of homes were destroyed.
“The whole neighborhood’s gone. The wall of my fireplace is all that is left of my house,” said Michael Perdun, speaking by cellphone.
The Illinois National Guard assisted with search-and-recovery operations in Washington.
As the cleanup got underway, authorities kept everyone but residents and emergency workers out of the affected neighborhoods. With power off and lines down in many areas, natural gas lines leaking and trees and other debris blocking many streets, an overnight curfew kept all but emergency vehicles off pitch-black roads. The only lights visible across most of Washington on Sunday night were red and blue flashes from police and fire truck lights.
Pierce said there were reports of looting.
About 75 friends and neighbors helped Zehr to salvage his family’s belongings. He said he’d been at church when the tornado hit but that his wife, Sue, and son were at home.
A friend, Keith Noe, said the Zehr family still felt fortunate.
“They both walked out of the basement and that’s what counts,” Noe said.
Across Washington, an auto-parts store with several people inside was reduced to a pile of bricks, metal and rebar; a battered car, its windshield impaled by a piece of lumber, was flung alongside it.
“The employees were climbing out of this,” Pierce said, gesturing to the rubble behind him. None of them was seriously injured, he said.
State spokesman Brian Williamson said hospitals reported treating about 60 people in Washington.
About 90 minutes after the tornado hit Washington, the stormy weather darkened downtown Chicago. As the rain and high winds slammed into the area, officials at Soldier Field evacuated the stands and ordered the Bears and Baltimore Ravens off the field. Fans were allowed back to their seats shortly after 2 p.m., and the game resumed after about a two-hour delay.
Just how many tornadoes hit was unclear. Although about 80 reports of tornadoes had come in as of Sunday night, the National Weather Service’s Bunting said the actual number will likely be 30 to 40 range. He said that’s because the same tornado often gets reported multiple times.
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Babwin reported from Chicago. Associated Press writers Sophia Tareen and Andale Gross in Chicago, Ken Kusmer and Tom LoBianco in Indianapolis, Ed White in Detroit and Amy Forliti in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
This aerial view on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, shows the path of a tornado that hit the western Illinois town of Washington on Sunday. It was one of the worst-hit areas after intense storms and tornadoes swept through Illinois. The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Washington had a preliminary rating of EF-4, meaning wind speeds of 170 mph to 190 mph. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
This aerial view on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, shows the path of a tornado that hit the western Illinois town of Washington on Sunday. It was one of the worst-hit areas after intense storms and tornadoes swept through Illinois. The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Washington had a preliminary rating of EF-4, meaning wind speeds of 170 mph to 190 mph. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Tornado damage is seen in Brookport, Ill., Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. Dozens of tornadoes and intense thunderstorms swept across the U.S. Midwest on Sunday, unleashing powerful winds that flattened entire neighborhoods, flipped over cars and uprooted trees. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)
Tornado damage is seen in Brookport, Ill., Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. Dozens of tornadoes and intense thunderstorms swept across the U.S. Midwest on Sunday, unleashing powerful winds that flattened entire neighborhoods, flipped over cars and uprooted trees. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)
A bike lays among tornado debris in Brookport, Ill., Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. Dozens of tornadoes and intense thunderstorms swept across the U.S. Midwest on Sunday, unleashing powerful winds that flattened entire neighborhoods, flipped over cars and uprooted trees. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)
A pick-up truck is buried under storm debris in Brookport, Ill., Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. Dozens of tornadoes and intense thunderstorms swept across the U.S. Midwest on Sunday, unleashing powerful winds that flattened entire neighborhoods, flipped over cars and uprooted trees. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)
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WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) — As a powerful tornado bore down on their Illinois farmhouse, Curt Zehr’s wife and adult son didn’t have time to do anything but scramble into their basement.
Uninjured, the pair looked out moments later to find the house gone. Their home on the outskirts of Washington, Ill., was destroyed Sunday by one of the dozens of tornadoes and intense thunderstorms that swept across the Midwest in a swift-moving line of violent weather that killed at least eight people and unleashed powerful winds that flattened entire neighborhoods, flipped over cars and uprooted trees.
“They saw (the tornado) right there and got in the basement,” said a stunned Zehr, pointing to the farm field near the rubble that had been his home.
Washington Mayor Gary Manier estimated that 250 to 500 homes had been damaged or destroyed. It wasn’t clear when residents would be allowed to return.
“Everybody’s without power, but some people are without everything,” Manier told reporters in the parking lot of a destroyed auto parts store and near a row of flattened homes.
“How people survived is beyond me,” he said.
The unusually powerful late-season wave of thunderstorms brought damaging winds and tornadoes to 12 states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and western New York.
Illinois was the hardest hit, with at least six people killed and dozens more injured. Authorities said Monday that two other deaths occurred in Michigan.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn promised all the assistance the state could provide to victims of what he said were the deadliest November tornadoes in state history.
“We’re all in this together,” Quinn said.
The governor and others said the search for anybody trapped in the rubble continued, but officials doubted that the death toll would climb. Illinois Emergency Management Agency Director Jonathon Monken said rescuers had just one field left to search in Washington before they can say with confidence that everyone has been accounted for.
The six people who died in Illinois included an 80-year-old man and his 78-year-old sister who were killed by a twister that hit their farmhouse near the rural community of New Minden. A third person died in Washington, while three others perished in Massac County in the far southern part of the state, authorities said.
One of the Massac County victims was identified as 63-year-old Scholitta Burrus of Brookport, Ill.
“They found her over there buried amid the destruction,” McCracken County Deputy Coroner Ryan Johnston said.
Moments before the tornado struck his home in Washington, Jim Svymbersky went into his basement to retrieve his weather radio — a simple act that may have spared his life.
“Saved by a weather radio,” he said Monday outside a supply store where he was picking up plywood to board up blown-out windows.
Washington, a town of 16,000 about 140 miles southwest of Chicago, appeared to have suffered the most severe damage. The tornado cut a path about an eighth of a mile wide from one side of town to the other, state trooper Dustin Pierce said.
Of the roughly 200 people who were injured, 120 of them were in Washington when the tornado struck, officials said.
Across farm fields a little more than a mile from where Zehr’s home once stood, several blocks of homes were destroyed.
“The whole neighborhood’s gone. The wall of my fireplace is all that is left of my house,” said Michael Perdun, speaking by cellphone.
The Illinois National Guard assisted with search-and-recovery operations in Washington.
As the cleanup got underway, authorities kept everyone but residents and emergency workers out of the affected neighborhoods. With power off and lines down in many areas, natural gas lines leaking and trees and other debris blocking many streets, an overnight curfew kept all but emergency vehicles off pitch-black roads. The only lights visible across most of Washington on Sunday night were red and blue flashes from police and fire truck lights.
Pierce said there were reports of looting.
About 75 friends and neighbors helped Zehr to salvage his family’s belongings. He said he’d been at church when the tornado hit but that his wife, Sue, and son were at home.
A friend, Keith Noe, said the Zehr family still felt fortunate.
“They both walked out of the basement and that’s what counts,” Noe said.
Across Washington, an auto-parts store with several people inside was reduced to a pile of bricks, metal and rebar; a battered car, its windshield impaled by a piece of lumber, was flung alongside it.
“The employees were climbing out of this,” Pierce said, gesturing to the rubble behind him. None of them was seriously injured, he said.
State spokesman Brian Williamson said hospitals reported treating about 60 people in Washington.
About 90 minutes after the tornado hit Washington, the stormy weather darkened downtown Chicago. As the rain and high winds slammed into the area, officials at Soldier Field evacuated the stands and ordered the Bears and Baltimore Ravens off the field. Fans were allowed back to their seats shortly after 2 p.m., and the game resumed after about a two-hour delay.
Just how many tornadoes hit was unclear. Although about 80 reports of tornadoes had come in as of Sunday night, the National Weather Service’s Bunting said the actual number will likely be 30 to 40 range. He said that’s because the same tornado often gets reported multiple times.
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Babwin reported from Chicago. Associated Press writers Sophia Tareen and Andale Gross in Chicago, Ken Kusmer and Tom LoBianco in Indianapolis, Ed White in Detroit and Amy Forliti in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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An image provided by NOAA taken at 2:45 a.m. EDT Sunday shows Hurricane Ingrid approaching from the Gulf of Mexico and Tropical Storm Manuel just off the western coast of Mexico.
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An image provided by NOAA taken at 2:45 a.m. EDT Sunday shows Hurricane Ingrid approaching from the Gulf of Mexico and Tropical Storm Manuel just off the western coast of Mexico.
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From the east and the west, two storm systems are closing in on Mexico, bringing strong winds and heavy rains. Hurricane Ingrid is moving toward the country’s east coast in the Gulf of Mexico; Tropical Storm Manuel is closing in on the southwest coast in the Pacific Ocean.
People are evacuating areas of both coasts, fearing landslides and flash floods. The storms come on the heels of heavy rain that was being blamed for the deaths of more than a dozen people in the past week, Agence France-Presse reports.
Ingrid became the second hurricane of the Atlantic season on Saturday; packing 85 mph winds, it’s expected to continue to grow. A hurricane warning has been issued for Mexico’s gulf coast, from Cabo Rojo to La Pesca.
“We expect landfall to occur sometime on Monday in that area,” Michael Brennan of the National Hurricane Center in Miami says. “We do expect Ingrid to strengthen a little bit during the next couple of days, so we should see a hurricane making landfall in that area on Monday.”
As of Sunday morning, Ingrid was moving at 7 mph. According to the hurricane center’s latest projections, the storm could make landfall by noon on Monday. It is predicted to head in a mostly westerly direction into Mexico on Tuesday and Wednesday.
With winds measured at 70 mph, Manuel remains below the threshold for hurricane strength. But it could drop 10-15 inches of rain — and possibly much more in some spots — when it makes landfall, expected early Sunday.
Violent storms have marked the end of a three-week heatwave with thunder and lightning hitting the UK overnight.
Train services out of Manchester’s main railway station have suffered major disruption after a lightning strike hit the signalling system.
About 6,500 homes in Gloucestershire lost power overnight, which has now been restored.
The change in weather comes after the hottest temperatures in seven years – which peaked on Monday at 33.5C.
The temperature – recorded in London – marked the hottest day since July 2006.
Flash floods
Network Rail said trains out of Manchester Piccadilly would be delayed by at least 60 minutes, with no details about when they would be back to normal.
Passengers have been told that all services have been suspended out of Piccadilly.
Tram services have also been hit in Manchester after a lightning strike affected signalling for the city’s Metrolink service.
A lightning strike at Stechford, near Birmingham, has affected services in and out of Coventry, Birmingham International and Birmingham New Street.
Storms hit England and Wales overnight and will last intermittently throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, coupled with torrential rain and the risk of flash floods.
Caught fire
A number of properties in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, were damaged by lightning, with firefighters called just before 06:00 BST. A car in the town also caught fire.
Denise Walton, who lives on Stuart Street, where a house was struck, said: “I heard an almighty bang and a flash, the whole street seemed to light up.
“Then I looked through the window and I could see smoke coming into the sky, I didn’t know where it was coming from.
“Within 10 minutes the fire brigade was here and then all hell let loose. It was frightening. Shocking, actually.”
In Wiltshire firefighters tackled a blaze in the roof of a house on Stonehenge Road in Durrington at about 18:30 on Monday.
Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said they received “many” lightning-related calls overnight.
‘Be aware’
About 50 firefighters and eight fire engines attended a fire at a farm on Elsthorpe Road, Stainfield, in Lincolnshire.
In Kent a house in Lympne caught fire at 02:00 after a lightning strike and a property in Gillingham was struck about 04:30. No-one was hurt in either incident.
Fire crews also had to pump water out of a house in Sandgate when it became flooded because of heavy rainfall.
London, Essex and Cambridgeshire have also been affected. In Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, 21mm of rain fell in less than an hour, the BBC Weather Centre said.
Water on Newfoundland Street in Bristol city centre closed one lane of the M32, with traffic queuing for about six miles.
Greater Manchester Fire Service had to rescue drivers from two cars after they got stuck driving through water on Crossley Road, Burnage.
Overnight, Stansted Airport in Essex suffered a power cut causing passenger information services and screens to fail.
A spokesman for the airport said flights were arriving and departing on schedule and a normal service was expected to continue.
He added: “Passengers are advised to come to the airport earlier than planned in case the situation changes.”
‘Surface water flooding’
A power cut affected about 6,500 properties in Alderton in Tewkesbury and Marle Hill in Stroud in Gloucestershire. Western Power said the supply was restored at 08:20.
About 800 homes in Bedminster, Bristol were left without power from 04:26-04:42 and another 800 homes in Emersons Green, Bath and Taunton had intermittent problems overnight.
In Essex power has been restored to 3,000 homes after a lightning storm caused a fault during the night.
UK Power Networks engineers are working to restore supplies to 238 customers in the Charlotte Avenue area of Wickford who remain without electricity.
A spokesperson said: “We appreciate how difficult it can be to lose power and want to assure customers we are doing all we can to restore normal supplies.”
Yellow warning
The Met Office’s Yellow warning for Tuesday predicts “thunderstorms or longer spells of thundery rain during the course of Tuesday, with some torrential downpours in places”.
It also warns of a risk of localised disruption to travel and surface water flooding.
In Wales, Natural Resources Wales said heavy rain was likely to cause roads to flood and drains, ditches and small streams to overflow.
BBC Wales weather presenter Behnaz Akhgar added: “The worst of it is in England now. We had some thunderstorms overnight and lightning strikes over parts of south east Wales.
“The only place we could continue to have lightning strikes is north east Wales in the Wrexham area.”
A further yellow warning of rain has been issued for Wednesday, affecting eastern parts of England and parts of Scotland, in particular the north-east of the country.
Philip Avery, from the BBC Weather Centre, warned that further storms could affect England during Tuesday.
“They [the storms] lie in an arc from Antrim to Scotland, over the Midlands and East Anglia and will push through Scotland during the day,” he said.
“Following behind from the Midlands to East Anglia there could be isolated storms. There’s an extensive yellow warning because of the intensity.
“We will stay on the muggy side and that could be the case again tonight and we don’t see any significant freshening of the atmosphere over next few days.”
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Heavy rains head to Florida with season’s first possible tropical depression or storm
Wildfires burn in Los Angeles area and New Mexico
The Mississippi River crests at St. Louis, and high water heads toward Cape Girardeau
Thunderstorms may hit Oklahoma, but mercifully, more tornadoes are a long shot
(CNN) — Tempestuous weather is striking the United States on four fronts. It seems as if Mother Nature is trying to throw us one extreme or another. Here they are:
First tropical storm of the season?
An area of “disturbed weather” in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula, could bring heavy rains and flooding to the Florida Peninsula and the Georgia and Carolina coastlines by Thursday, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.
Morris says he’ll be watching to see if the bad weather becomes the first tropical depression — or even the first tropical storm — of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.
At a minimum, the storms could cause a lot of rainfall and flooding on the Florida Peninsula, he said.
Fires
A 32,000-acre wildfire is burning some old-growth chaparral in northern Los Angeles County that lies in the western tip of the Mojave Desert.
Firefighters have brought the so-called Powerhouse Fire 60% under control, said Ed Gilliland of the U.S. Forest Service.
A few hundred homes and other structures remain at moderate risk, but conditions are safe enough to lift evacuations and allow people to return to the communities of Green Valley, Leona Valley, Elizabeth Lake and Lake Hughes, authorities said.
Higher humidity and lower temperatures should help firefighters, Gilliland said.
Added Morris: “They aren’t expecting gusty winds in that area, so the conditions should be favorable for the firefighters to gain some ground there, which they have been.”
In New Mexico, a wildfire is burning nearly uncontrollably in the mountains at Pecos. The Tres Lagunas Fire is only 7% contained and has consumed 8,500 acres, authorities said, adding that crews are trying to protect structures in Holy Ghost Canyon.
Floods
The mighty Mississippi River is now at major flood stage in St. Louis, but the worst of it is over and waters will recede this week, Morris said.
The river there has topped 40 feet, more than 10 feet above flood stage.
Downriver, however, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, could face flooding as the surge moves downstream, Morris said.
But the city will be the last along the river to face such a threat, because the river begins to widen south of there, Morris said.
“We’re expecting Cape Girardeau to reach major flood stage tonight and crest at the end of the week,” Morris said Tuesday.
Crews in West Alton, Missouri — a town just north of St. Louis where the Mississippi and Missouri rivers meet — were reinforcing their levees with sandbags. A levee breach prompted authorities to urge 300 residents to evacuate. And the bridge to Alton, Illinois, was shut down after a temporary flood barricade failed.
But no homes in West Alton are under water, said Colene McEntee, a spokeswoman for St. Charles County.
Tornado Alley
Still reeling from deadly twisters, Oklahoma faces a slight risk of thunderstorms Tuesday, but the good news is there’s only a slight chance of an isolated tornado, Morris said. There’s also a chance of large hail and damaging straight-line winds in northwest Oklahoma, he added.
“For most of the state, it’s just a very slight risk of severe storms,” Morris said.
There is also a slight risk of severe weather for the southern half of Kansas, far northern Texas and southeast Colorado.
Oklahoma’s recent storms have killed 19 people, said Shanea Scully, administrative coordinator for the Oklahoma City Fire Department.
A father and son rode out Hurricane Isaac at their Braithwaite, La., home even though the town was under a mandatory evacuation. On Monday, they’re being honored for their bravery by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and Foundation.
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At the height of the storm more than 400,000 people were without power. Many still in the dark and without heat are trying to keep warm by huddling under blankets or seeking shelter.
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At the height of the storm more than 400,000 people were without power. Many still in the dark and without heat are trying to keep warm by huddling under blankets or seeking shelter.
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At the height of the storm more than 400,000 people were without power. Many still in the dark and without heat are trying to keep warm by huddling under blankets or seeking shelter.
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