![]() ![]() A major winter storm is set to impact millions this week from coast to coast. are expected to set records for the coldest high temperatures over the same time period, with a high of 49 degrees expected in Burbank, a high of 48 degrees in San Francisco, a high of 32 degrees in Portland and zero degrees in Billings, Montana. ![]() ![]() "Heavy snow is expected across several states with strong winds leading to blizzard conditions across parts of the Northern Plains and Midwest."Ĭonversely, cities along the West Coast of the U.S. "There will be all types of winter weather," Warren noted. While large coast-to-coast storms, even powerful ones, "are fairly common," Warren noted, "What makes this more unique is the extreme nature of all the possible threats across such a large portion of the United States." "It will be a long-lasting winter storm with extreme impacts stretching more or less from the West Coast to the East Coast," Chris Warren, a meteorologist and co-host at The Weather Channel, told CBS News in an email. This week's coast-to-coast storm system "will bring numerous weather hazards and significantly anomalous temperatures" stretching from Washington to Maine. Mitch slogged across the Glades and left the state near Jupiter, flooding homes from Boynton Beach to Boca Raton with relentless rain.The upper-level pattern will intensify in the coming days as millions of people, from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast, brace for an oncoming blanket of snow, frozen rain, strong winds and potential flash flooding that prompted winter weather alerts in 29 states, with six states under blizzard warnings. It grew to a monster Category 5 storm before hitting Honduras, then hooked around and cut across the Gulf of Mexico to make landfall near Naples as a tropical storm on Nov. 4 as a Category 2 hurricane.Īnother notable November storm was 1998's Hurricane Mitch, which formed in late October in the western Caribbean. It was born near Bermuda, rode the underbelly of the Bermuda High toward the coast of the Carolinas, but was then picked up by the clockwise swoop of another high-pressure system that pushed it into Miami on Nov. The other November hurricane to hit Florida was the 1935 storm nicknamed the Yankee because of its unusual approach from the north. Probably more memorable was 1985's Hurricane Kate, which hit near Mexico Beach four days before Thanksgiving as a Category 2 storm. It did a loop in the Gulf of Mexico and made a second Florida landfall four days later near Cedar Key. 8, 2020, as a tropical storm on Lower Matecumbe Key. The most recent tropical cyclone to reach Florida in November was Eta, which made landfall Nov. “Wind gusts can be expected as soon as Tuesday along Florida's East Coast.”īut it is rare for a November storm to reach Florida. “Regardless of intensity or exact path of the system, Floridians are reminded to prepare for an increased risk of coastal flooding, heavy winds, rain, rip currents and beach erosion,” emergency management officials said. “It is critical for Floridians to review their disaster preparedness plans and follow all directions from local officials in anticipation of potential impacts.” "As the Division continues to support communities in their recovery from Hurricane Ian, we are now closely monitoring 98L," said Guthrie in a statement. Ron DeSantis directed the Florida Division of Emergency Management on Sunday to monitor the Atlantic weather disturbance and to warn Florida residents on the east coast of its potential impact on the state, according to the governor’s office.įDEM Director Kevin Guthrie said his office is keeping close contact with the National Hurricane Center, the National Weather Service and all 67 county emergency management directors throughout the state for what federal weather forecasters call “98L.”
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