Another week and another powerful storm system has blasted through the mid-section of the country and into the northeast. This storm was not atypical for this time of year and not record setting, but it was potent and had a variety of ways of causing mayhem across the country.
When I began talking about this system a week ago, it looked like heavy snow was going to be the big story. It turns out that I was wrong. We had some good snow totals, but really just a normal snowstorm. The really big impacts came in other packages.
Rain was a large story as many places were seeing rainfall amounts in excess of 3 inches. Flash flooding and small creeks and streams overflowing were seen from Indiana to the gulf coast and from west of the Mississippi to the Appalachians.
Severe storms and tornadoes threatened the southern states. There were a few confirmed tornadoes, but many of the storms packed winds in excess of 70mph and cause quite a bit of damage. Downed trees helped knock out power lines all through the south. Reed Timmer Tornado Chase
This storm also had an ice component that has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands in Canada and the northeast USA. Lesser amounts caused numerous small accidents throughout the Midwest and great lakes regions.
The weather looks to be quieting down for the week ahead with no major systems across the country. There will be a little clipper system that will bring some Christmas eve and day snows across the upper Midwest into the Great Lakes region, but that is about it for the next week ahead. Temperatures should remain mostly in a seasonal range, maybe a little under average most locations.
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