Risky winter storm threatens the Southeast with tornadoes and floods while pummeling the Midwest with blizzard-like conditions.
By Elizabeth Wolfe, Joe Sutton,
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As it moves from the Midwest through the Northeast this week, a broad winter storm is still battering a large portion of the eastern half of the nation, causing power outages in multiple states and forcing the closure of roads, government buildings, and schools. The most recent is this:
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● There is a serious storm threat for about 40 million people: The Storm Prediction Center reports that there are weather alerts for more than 2,000 miles on Tuesday, spanning from New Mexico to Maine.
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• More than 40 million people are under severe storm warning: the Storm Prediction Center reports that weather advisories for Tuesday cover a distance of more than 2,000 miles, from New Mexico to Maine.
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• Southeast threatened by tornadoes: In Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, the Storm Prediction Center has issued a tornado watch affecting over 9 million people. On Tuesday morning, twelve tornadoes were recorded in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia; they caused considerable damage and necessitated rescue operations on the Florida panhandle.
• Rain could cause harmful floods: In locations where heavy rainfall is soaking already-saturated soils, flooding is a serious worry.
Atlanta, Washington, DC, and New York City are among the major East Coast cities that may experience flooding due to the possibility of 2 to 4 inches of rain.
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Robust winds cause extensive blackouts of power:
On Tuesday, there are significant power disruptions due to wind alerts that affect over half of the US population. According to tracker poweroutage.us, some 400,000 residences and businesses in many states were already facing power outages on Tuesday morning, primarily in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
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Severe blizzard conditions move eastward:
Wednesday morning saw the shift in the threat from the Plains to the Midwest, with blizzard warnings extending from New Mexico to Nebraska.
There might be another two to six inches of snowfall in the area, and winds as high as seventy miles per hour.
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There might be up to a foot of snow from the central to northeast US: There are winter storm warnings in force for parts of eastern Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Kansas, as
