Weather in America: February 26, 2024
FOX Weather has you coated with the breaking forecasts and climate information headlines in your Weather in America on Monday, February 26, 2024. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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Cross-country storm begins assault in Western mountains
The FOX Forecast Center is monitoring a strong cross-country storm that’s impacting the West to begin the workweek. It’s anticipated to dump toes of snow throughout the assorted mountain ranges within the area and will even produce blizzard situations in a few of the increased elevations.
The Cascades in Washington and Oregon are anticipated to be hit particularly arduous by winter climate, as this would be the most impactful storm since early January. The FOX Forecast Center mentioned there’s a excessive likelihood of greater than 2 toes of snow by way of Tuesday at elevations above 1,500 toes.
However, increased mountain passes in Washington, together with Snoqualmie Pass, and Oregon might see regionally as a lot as 4 toes of snow because the storm blasts by way of the West on its strategy to the Midwest later this week.
Lowering snow ranges may even deliver some mild snowfall right down to the valley flooring from Monday evening into Tuesday morning, probably together with parts of the Interstate 5 hall between Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
Severe climate threatens practically 45 million in Midwest by Tuesday
As the cross-country storm advances off to the east, it is going to deliver the danger of extreme climate to main cities within the Midwest like St. Louis, Chicago and Indianapolis by Tuesday.
Severe thunderstorms threaten practically 45 million folks from components of the mid-Mississippi Valley by way of the southwestern Great Lakes from late Tuesday afternoon into the night and in a single day hours.
Strong to extreme storms that develop can be able to producing massive hail, damaging wind gusts and some tornadoes.
Soaring temps might shatter over 300 temperature data this week
An unseasonable warmup will proceed to unfold all through a lot of the U.S. this week, with excessive temperatures from Texas to the Midwest feeling extra like May than the tip of meteorological winter.
Hundreds of temperature data are anticipated to fall by way of midweek, with Monday and Tuesday forecast to be the warmest days throughout the Plains and Midwest. On Monday, greater than 250 million Americans will expertise above-average temperatures.
When combining the anticipated variety of report highs and record-warm lows, greater than 300 temperature data may very well be matched or damaged between Monday and Wednesday.
Watch this
A waterfall illuminated by the solar on the precise proper time created the phantasm of lava from a volcano flowing down the aspect of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park in California, and the spectacular and common occasion on the nationwide park was captured in a mesmerizing time-lapse video final week.
Watch: Spectacular time-lapse video exhibits Firefall in all its glory
Time-lapse video exhibits the mesmerizing Firefall at Horsetail Fall, a seasonal waterfall inside Yosemite National Park. Firefall happens when the solar is setting and sends beams of sunshine shining down to provide the phantasm {that a} river of molten lava is flowing off El Capitan.
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