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| The opening salvo in the storm that's causing coast-to-coast problems in the U.S. caused musdlides in California. Photo via AccuWeather |
Everybody in a stripe from northern Texas to Virginia is going to share in the bad weather. Already, parts of southern California have been walloped by heavy rains.
Some of that rain fell on areas hit by
wildfires earlier this autumn. That causes mudslides, flash floods, debris flows and mandatory evacutations of some homes.
Roads were blocked by rocks and mud, but so far at least, there hasn't been much damage to houses and other buildings from this storm in southern California. The storm is now moving out of that area.
Texas is in trouble not so much by winter precipitation but by heavy rains in the eastern part of the state. True, northern Texas is going to have to contend with snow and ice, but a broad area of central and eastern Texas and much of Louisiana will get three to seven inches of rain out of this, with locally higher amounts.
Even bigger cities like Asheville, Winston-Salem, and maybe even Charlotte are in trouble with this storm.
It's already wet there, so there will probably be pretty extensive flooding in this region through Saturday.
The next trouble spot is North Carolina, South Carolina northeastern Georgia and western Virginia. In the highlands of western North Carolina, a few places can expect up to two feet of wet snow. Freezing rain looks like it will mix in through much of this area. Plus, it's going to get windy.
My bet is the power will be out in some of these areas for many days after the storm as a result.
For us Vermonters, good news: It still looks like this storm will miss us by a wide margin. We'll have mostly dry, chilly weather for the next few days. Some snow showers will come down Saturday and Saturday night, but it won't be a big deal.
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