First winter storm of many strength rescue of water, knochetizes power and creates dangerous travel conditions

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TO Great Scope Storm It is forcing water rescues, eliminating power and creating dangerous travel conditions as the Ohio Valley, the Atlantic media and the northeast of Thursday.

It is a preview of the frantic activity of the winter storm this month with at least two other expected in the next week.

Very strong rains on the southern side, warmer to Thursday’s storm caused the first sudden flood emergencies of the year in parts of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. Sudden flood emergencies They are the most severe level of sudden flood warning and indicate that potentially mortal floods are produced.

“Numerous rescue of water” took place in parts of the counties of Kanawha and Cabell of Virginia Occidental, where Charleston and Huntington are located, according to warnings of the National Meteorological Service.

“We cannot stress enough not to drive through high water for any reason,” the first to respond in Kanawha County urged social networks On Thursday morning, after informing, the teams had left in “multiple water rescue calls.”

There were also multiple warnings of tornadoes as a line of severe electric storms in Kentucky and Western Virginia on Thursday morning. At least one Confirmed tornado Catted by these storms near Booneville, in the east of Kentucky County in Owsley County.

The storm’s ice power cuts and the serious thunderstorms were marking Thursday morning. More than 85,000 homes and companies were unimpossed in Ohio, Virginia Occidental, Virginia and Maryland from 8 am et.

An icy mixture extended from the center of Virginia to the state of New York and parts of New England on Thursday morning, even in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City.

Dangerous ice quantities will accumulate in parts of Pennsylvania, western Maryland and West Virginia. This amount can weigh the trees and electricity lines, causing power cuts, and make trips dangerous to the impossible limit.

The ongoing storm created dangerous travel conditions on Wednesday night until Thursday morning, since it spread a careless disorder of frozen precipitation in much of the west medium and parts of the northeast. Traffic accidents were reported in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The snow, the aguanieve, the icy rain and the rain will expand further to the north and will reach much of New England on Thursday afternoon, but the parts of the south of the northeast will gradually change from an icy mixture to rain as the warmer air.

The precipitation will come to an end at night for much of the northeast, but remains in the early hours of Friday morning in northern New England. It will remain slippery where air temperatures remain close or below freezing.

The ongoing storm is only the first of an incredibly active section of winter storms expected at the northern level of the United States during the next week or two.

The stream in jet, essentially an air river in the atmosphere that storm flows, is locked in an almost perfect line from west to this

The new storms will arrive every few days until the jet current changes, something that might not happen until the second half of February.

The next storm will take less than 72 hours to go from coast to coast. It will push to the west coast on Thursday night, monitor through the Rocky Mountains of the North and Northern Plains on Friday before strengthening on Saturday. On Saturday until Sunday it will quickly extend a mixture of snow, aguanieve, frozen rain and rain through an area almost identical to this week’s first storm in the west and northeast.

The exact moment, the type and amount of precipitation of the storm are still focusing, but another episode of disruptive ice for the west and northeast medium is possible. Some areas will only have a little more than 24 hours between the impacts from the first final of the storm and the problems of the second beginning.

Additional storms are possible next week for the eastern half of the country as the active pattern continues. The forecast models are hinting at another wide range storm next Tuesday and Wednesday, and another storm in the middle of the month.