A serious ice storm created treacherous driving situations throughout Iowa and jap Nebraska this weekend and prompted short-term closures of Interstate 80 after quite a few automobiles and vans slid off the highway.
Many occasions have been canceled throughout the area when the storm hit Friday night, and companies introduced plans to open late Saturday as officers urged individuals to remain dwelling if doable. Temperatures rose excessive sufficient within the afternoon to soften the ice in most locations, nevertheless.
“Luckily some hotter air is shifting in behind this to make it short-term,” stated Dave Cousins, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s workplace in Davenport, Iowa.
At least one individual died in a crash brought on by the icy roads in jap Nebraska. The Washington County Sheriff’s workplace stated a 57-year-old lady died after she misplaced management of her pickup on Highway 30 close to Arlington and hit an oncoming truck. The different driver sustained minor accidents.
Elsewhere a storm and wind gusts of as much as 60 mph (96 kph) prompted the primary twister warning in San Francisco and triggered some harm. Parts of neighboring San Mateo County have been additionally included within the warning, which went out at 5:51 a.m. to about 1 million individuals within the space and was lifted about 20 minutes later.
Later Saturday a twister touched down close to a shopping center in Scotts Valley, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of San Francisco, overturning automobiles and toppling bushes and utility poles, the National Weather Service stated.
“Based on video, pictures, firsthand accounts, and radar signatures a twister occurred (at) 1:40 PM,” the service stated, including {that a} group will examine and supply a rating.
Images uploaded to social media confirmed a minimum of two autos on their facet or hood and bushes and energy strains on the bottom.
Witnesses reported that the landing occurred close to a Target retailer and “threw a number of automobiles off the highway,” the Scotts Valley Police Department stated in a press release. It requested individuals to keep away from the realm.
The storm toppled some bushes onto automobiles and streets and broken some roofs in San Francisco, which has not seen a twister since 2005, in line with the Weather Service. The harm was being assessed to find out if town was certainly hit by a twister.
“This was the primary ever warning for a doable twister in San Francisco. I’d guess there wasn’t a transparent signature on radar for a warning in 2005,” stated Roger Gass, a meteorologist within the Weather Service’s Monterey, California. He stated he was not there in 2005.
The fast-moving storm prompted warnings for residents to take shelter, however few individuals have basements within the space.
“The largest factor that we inform individuals within the metropolis is to place as many partitions between you and the skin as doable,” Meteorologist Dalton Behringer stated.
In upstate New York, individuals have been digging out after heavy snow fell. More than 33 inches (84 centimeters) was reported close to Orchard Park, the place residents are used to coping with lake-effect snow this time of yr.
And in Nevada, as much as 3 toes (91 centimeters) of snow was forecast for Sierra Nevada mountaintops, with a winter storm warning in impact by way of 10 p.m. More than a foot (30 cm) fell at some Lake Tahoe ski resorts, and a 112-mph (181-kph) gust of wind was recorded on the Mammoth Mountain resort south of Yosemite National Park, in line with the National Weather Service’s Reno workplace.
Interstate 80 was closed alongside an 80-mile (130-kilometer) stretch from Applegate, California, to the Nevada line simply west of Reno, the place rain was falling and a winter climate advisory was in impact by way of the afternoon. The California Highway Patrol reopened the highway within the afternoon for passenger autos with chains or four-wheel drive and snow tires, although it remained closed to semitrailer vans.
In western Washington, tens of hundreds of individuals misplaced electrical energy Saturday, native information shops reported, amid a system that introduced rain and gusty winds.
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