The weather is certainly frightening as the National Weather Service has warned it will be ‘wet, chilly, windy and a white Christmas’ for the West as record-breaking high temperatures hit the South.
Washington, Nevada, Oregon, And Arizona The states are having a picture-perfect white Christmas as a heavy snowpack, leading to more dangerous road conditions.
The Cascades can experience up to two to three feet of snow, including portland, Oregon is expected to get six inches.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown declared a state of emergency until January 3 because ‘winter storms increase risk for travel.’
‘Winter storms mean increased risks for those traveling as well as those living at home. Please make a plan with your family now and be ready,’ she posted on Twitter on Thursday.
Arizona (pictured), Nevada and Washington states enjoying a white Christmas as blankets of heavy snow
The Sierra Nevada mountains can experience up to 10 feet of snow, while the city may have five to eight feet (Picture: Sierra, Nevada)
Oregon (pictured) is covered in snow, with heavy downpours seen along this road
The personnel are working diligently to clear the roadways in unknown condition. Oregon has already declared a state of emergency and Nevada begins to issue evacuations
Shelters have also been opened to help homeless people escape the harsh conditions in the state.
Sierra, Nevada has issued an evacuation warning for 150 homes near the Twain Hurt Lake Dam after cracks were found in a concrete structure.
Mountains can also reach up to 10 feet of snow, which is equivalent to two storeys of a building, while cities can see five to eight feet of snow.
The weather services in Reno, Nevada, said traveling in the Sierras over the holiday weekend would be at times difficult to impossible.
Southern California is facing dangerous flooding that has already killed two people trapped in a submerged car under an underpass (pictured) near San Francisco. Rescuers were unable to help the couple due to unsafe conditions
Several counties have issued voluntary evacuations in Orange County, Yucaipa and Little Creek, all areas burned by wildfires earlier this year (Picture: Underpass near San Francisco)
Evacuations have been ordered due to landslides and debris flows as well as flooding (Pictured: Underpass near San Francisco)
Powerlines are also down, leaving many without electricity in California this holiday season (Pictured: Southern California)
“Travel will be dangerous, even impassable at times, in the harshest of places with snow drifts and whitewashed conditions,” NOAA said Friday.
Those at lower altitudes can expect rain.
Rare snow is falling in northern California, forcing Interstate 80 east toward Donner Summit to be closed for hours on Friday as cars crossed icy roads, causing a spinout.
The California Department of Transportation, or CalTrans, announced that I-80 was reopened Friday around 8 p.m., but required all vehicles to travel with chains on their tires, as long as the car was in snow. Do not have four-wheel drive with tyres.
Meanwhile, Southern California is facing deadly flooding that has already killed two people.
San Mateo County Sheriff’s Detective Javier Acosta said rescuers could not reach them after two people died in a submerged car under an underpass near San Francisco on Thursday as flooding was dangerous.
The National Weather Service reported: ‘In Christmas-speak, this means that the snow measure has control over the west, while the heat measure in Southtown has complete control over the weather, with no agreement on snow in Southtown this Christmas,’ Because the South is breaking records because of the heat waves this holiday
Rescuers were able to assist the car in front of them, where passengers were able to stand on their roof as they pulled through the treacherous waters.
Southern California has issued voluntary evacuations in Orange County, Yucaipa and Little Creek, all areas burned by wildfires earlier this year. Evacuations have been ordered due to landslides and debris flows as well as flooding.
Power lines are down, leaving many without power, and heavy rain is ravaging backyards and leaving a San Bernardino man with ‘three or four feet of mud’ against his house.
As far west as the Mississippi Valley, temperatures can be 30 degrees above normal in the 70s and 80s. Temperatures will also be around 25 to 35 degrees higher in the Ohio Valley
Unlike the heavy snowfall in Nevada and the treacherous flooding of California, most Americans will experience a green Christmas.
The National Weather Service reported, “In Christmas-speak, this means that the snow measure has control over the west, while the heat measure in Southtown has complete control over the weather, with no agreement on snow in Southtown this Christmas.”
The Mississippi Valley to west Texas could experience record-high heat, with temperatures expected to reach 30 degrees above average, with temperatures expected to reach 70 to 80 degrees. CBS,
Temperatures are also expected to increase in the Ohio Valley, with an increase of 25 to 35 degrees above normal temperatures.
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