Forecasters through the US issued warnings that another round of winter weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, while California and Washington state continue to recover from storm damage and power outages.
In California, where a person was found dead in a vehicle submerged in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more precipitation while grappling with flooding and small landslides from a previous storm.
The national weather service office in Sacramento, California, issued a winter storm warning for the state’s Sierra Nevada for Saturday through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at higher elevations and wind gusts potentially reaching 55mph (88kph). Total snowfall of roughly 4ft (1.2 meters) was forecast, with the heaviest accumulations expected on Monday and Tuesday.
The midwest and Great Lakes regions will see rain and snow on Monday and the east coast will be the most affected on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, forecasters said.
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