- Forecast models for the week of April 1 show a severe weather system moving from the west across the country.
- The system, which will hit the East Coast on Tuesday, forecasters say, will bring freezing rain, snow, hail and strong winds.
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A powerful Easter storm system issued flash flood warnings across much of Los Angeles County and heavy rain across the rest of California and the heartland, affecting about 50 million Americans.
Forecast models show widespread severe weather will affect the center of the county on Monday before heading east into Tennessee and Ohio.
Storms can cause dangerously strong gusts of wind, as well as lightning and tornadoes.
FOX Weather Meteorologist Jane Minar said: ‘What begins in the West must eventually come to the East. “All that energy, as it moves over the Four Corners over the weekend, takes on a second life as it unfolds in the middle of America.”
NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center said that on Monday, states like Oklahoma could experience hail 2 inches wide.
Forecast models for the week of April 1 show a severe weather system moving from the west across the country, bringing with it freezing rain, snow, hail, and very, very strong winds.
Some of the tornadoes, the organization warns, could occur during Monday night. Nighttime tornadoes are more than twice as likely to cause fatalities.
In the north-central Plains, the storm system will likely deposit snow and freezing rain Sunday night. Those cold weather storm qualities could extend as far north as the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region on Monday.
Later in the week, showers and thunderstorms will cover Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, extending into northern Mississippi and Alabama.
Louisville, Kentucky is also in the path of the storm.
Although the threat level will not be as high as Monday, those areas are still advised to prepare for all modes of severe weather.
Minar said: “The key message here is that as we follow what happens with the rain over the weekend in the west, let’s not lose sight of the start of the new week, the start of the new month.”
Weather alerts, he said, are a necessity in April, a month that typically comes with an increase in severe weather as air masses collide in the east.
California is ending its second consecutive winter of heavy snow.
Over the Easter weekend, the state’s mountain region received a significant amount of snow and the weather pattern extended east to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and Wyoming, where more than 12 inches of snow could fall.
This week’s thunderstorms may end up bringing dangerously strong wind gusts, as well as lightning and tornadoes (pictured)
According to meteorologists, weather alerts are necessary in April, a month that is often accompanied by an increase in severe weather conditions as air masses collide in the east.
Strong winds are affecting major sections of the country, with some southwestern states expecting gusts of up to 55 mph.
The Southwest is under a high wind warning, and nearly all of Arizona is under a warning that winds could reach speeds of up to 55 mph.
The severe weather that will continue through midweek will also extend as far south as Texas and as far northeast as Baltimore, Maryland, where crews tasked with investigating and cleaning up the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse will need to pay close attention to the weather. from the West.