Was that big storm we just had due to El Niño? You would feel the effects of the construction project through its changes to normal patterns, but you wouldn’t expect the construction project to "hit" your house. Different neighborhoods will be affected most at different times of the day. Think of how a big construction project across town can change the flow of traffic near your house, with people being re-routed, side roads taking more traffic, and normal exits and on-ramps closed. Instead, the warmer tropical Pacific waters cause changes to the global atmospheric circulation, resulting in a wide range of changes to global weather. No, El Niño isn’t a storm that will hit a specific area at a specific time. Is El Niño a kind of storm that will hit the U.S.? Convection associated with rising branches of the Walker Circulation is found over the Maritime continent, northern South America, and eastern Africa. Also contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Julie Walker in New York Claire Rush in Oregon and Scott Sonner in Nevada along with AP journalists throughout the country.Generalized Walker Circulation (December-February) during ENSO-neutral conditions. This story has been corrected to show the person who died in Portland, Oregon, died of hypothermia, not hyperthermia. More snow was expected overnight and Sunday. While the city saw sunny skies and temperatures approaching 40 degrees Saturday afternoon, the reprieve - and thaw - was short-lived. Much of Portland was shut down with icy roads after the city’s second-heaviest snowfall on record this week: nearly 11 inches (28 centimeters). Authorities in Portland, Oregon, said a person died of hypothermia. A Michigan firefighter died Wednesday after coming into contact with a downed power line, while in Rochester, Minnesota, a pedestrian died after being hit by a city-operated snowplow. The storm was expected to reach the central high Plains by Sunday evening.Īt least three people have died in the coast-to-coast storms. Weekend snow also was forecast for parts of the upper Midwest to the Northeast, with pockets of freezing rain over some areas of the central Appalachians. In Arizona, the heaviest snow was expected late Saturday through midday Sunday, with up to a foot of new snow possible in Flagstaff, forecasters said. Nearly 2 feet (61 cm) of new snow had fallen by Friday and up to another 5 feet (1.5 meters) was expected when another storm moves in with the potential for gale-force winds and high-intensity flurries Sunday, the weather service said. The low-pressure system was also expected to bring widespread rain and snow in southern Nevada by Saturday afternoon and across northwest Arizona Saturday night and Sunday morning, the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas said.Īn avalanche warning was issued for the Sierra Nevada backcountry around Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California-Nevada border. The destruction is insane.”īack in California, the Weather Prediction Center of the National Weather Service forecast heavy snow over the Cascade Mountains and the Sierra Nevada through the weekend. “There’s just tree limbs everywhere, half of the trees just falling down. “The ice that was falling off the trees as it was melting was hitting our windshield so hard, I was afraid it was going to crack,” she said. “As soon as the heat came back and we were able to have one or two lights running, it was like a complete flip in attitude.”Īfter driving to a relative’s home to store food, Rinker, 27, compared the destruction of trees to tornado damage. “We were all surviving, but spirits were low on the second day,” she said. Two were taken to a hospital with hypothermia, said spokesperson Brian Humphrey. The Los Angeles Fire Department used a helicopter to rescue four homeless people who were stranded in the river’s major flood control basin. The Los Angeles River and other waterways that normally flow at a trickle or are dry most of the year were raging with runoff Saturday. “Quite a remarkable storm the last few days with historic amounts of precip and snow down to elevations that rarely see snow,” the LA-area weather office wrote. Rainfall totals as of late Saturday morning were equally stunning, including nearly 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) at Los Angeles County’s Cogswell Dam and nearly 10.5 inches (26.6 cm) in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. Multiday precipitation totals as of Saturday morning included a staggering 81 inches (205 centimeters) of snow at the Mountain High resort in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles and up to 64 inches (160 centimeters) farther east at Snow Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains.
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