Meteorologist Mike Masco has identified what he says could be a very active storm pattern for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic from around New Year's Day into mid-January.
"I've been deconstructing the pattern this morning, and there are three key features that support an active stretch across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, including the potential for at least two sizable snow events, plus several smaller ones," Masco wrote on X.
Masco is a meteorologist for New York City-based PIX11 News and focuses on the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
He explained what the active post-New Year pattern could bring on a region-by-region basis:
A 70-year-old man was found dead inside a car submerged in floodwaters at Normanton, as extreme rainfall continues to inundate large parts Queensland.
Police were called to Gulf Development Road shortly after 3pm on Tuesday, where the man was discovered dead.
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli announced the death on Wednesday morning, saying the loss had deeply affected the local community in the north-west where the man lived.
"In the end, property can be replaced. People can't," Mr Crisafulli told Sunrise from Mount Isa, where he was inspecting flood damage.
The Premier said two weather systems had dumped extraordinary rainfall across the region, with some isolated areas recording totals exceeding those seen during the devastating 2019 floods.
"This is certainly not as widespread as that, but there are isolated pockets where people have had some really, really significant damage and some significant loss," he said.
As mentioned, three Queensland weather stations have now received more than a metre (1000mm) of rain from the ongoing monsoonal deluge, as of 9am Wednesday. They are:
- Bingil Bay 1114.2mm (last four days 405.6mm, 344.6mm, 245.2mm, 118.8mm)
- South Mission Beach1048 mm (last four days 252mm, 312mm, 369mm, 115mm)
- Cowley Beach1037mm (last four days 413.2mm, 362.4mm, 221mm, 40.4mm)
Heavy snowfall in Poland caused tailbacks stretching as far as 20 km (12.43 miles) on a motorway between the capital Warsaw and the Baltic port city of Gdansk during the night, police said on Wednesday. While the situation left hundreds of people trapped in their cars in freezing conditions, by the early hours of Wednesday morning traffic was moving again, according to police.
"The difficult situation began yesterday after 4 pm, when the first trucks on the S7 route... began having trouble approaching the slopes," said Tomasz Markowski, a spokesperson for police in the northern city of Olsztyn.
"This led to a traffic jam stretching approximately 20 kilometres overnight." Deputy Infrastructure Minister Stanislaw Bukowiec told a press conference that nobody had been hurt as a result of the difficult situation on the roads. Anna Karczewska, a spokesperson for police in Ostroda, said officers had tried to help drivers who found themselves stuck. Ostroda lies on the highway about 40 km west of Olsztyn.
"We helped as much as we could, and we had coffee and hot tea for the drivers, which the Ostroda City Hall had prepared for us," she said.
State news agency PAP reported that there had also been some disruption to railways and airports, but that services were returning to normal.
Some areas in the northern tier of the Upper Peninsula saw close to 30 feet of snow between Sunday and Monday.Graphic provided by the National Weather Service
The inch-counts have been tallied and the bragging rights have been secured after the latest Upper Peninsula blizzard. The National Weather Service team in Marquette today released the two-day snow totals from the severe winter storm that started on Sunday and lasted through Monday.
It brought feet of snow to parts of the U.P., and that snow was whipped around by wind gusts topping 70 mph in some areas.
"The most recent blizzard hit the U.P. hard, with much of the U.P. seeing a foot or more of snow and some locations in Marquette County seeing over 2 feet of snow!" the NWS meteorologists in Marquette said today.
The area where the NWS office is located clocked 28.6 inches of snow. "At our office in Negaunee Township, this reached the Top 10 of two-day snow totals since 1961."
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Security forces have rescued passengers from a bus after it was swept away by floodwaters in Shindand district of western Herat province on Tuesday.
In a statement, the 207 Al-Farouq Army Corps in western Afghanistan said that at around 3:00 a.m. today, a 580-model passenger bus in the Azizabad area of Shindand district was hit by flash floods, causing it to veer off the road and overturn into a water basin.
A sinkhole swallowed up a parked car in Turkey and all people could do was watch.
Turkish media says it happened in a parking area not far from a stream. The soil seemed to shift open under the vehicle, creating a large enough opening to take the whole car.
It was a sight to watch, especially because the car was unoccupied.
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Floods and blizzard left at least four people dead and nine others missing across Iran over the past two days, the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said on Monday, reported Xinhua.
In a statement published on its website, the IRCS said the victims were from the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan and the southwestern province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad.
It said that of those missing, eight were in the southwestern province of Khuzestan and one in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, adding that its rescuers were using all available capacities to find them.
Heavy rainfall and snow have swept through more than 20 Iranian provinces since Sunday, causing floods and the blockage of intercity roads.
Torrential rain and stormy weather caused flooding and uprooted trees across northern and central Israel on Monday, with intense downpours recorded from Haifa to the Sea of Galilee and strong winds buffeting much of the country.
In the coastal city of Haifa, water surged in streets, turning some into rushing streams, and in Herzliya a tree fell onto a passing car. The driver was unhurt and did not require medical attention, said Magen David Adom paramedic Nir Keisar. "We arrived to find the vehicle in the middle of the road with the tree on top," he said. "The driver said it fell as he was driving. It was a miracle he was not injured."
Trees also came down in the northern city of Acre and in the moshav Matzliah. In the northern city of Karmiel, residents reported heavy hail.
A man in his 60s was seriously injured in Tel Aviv on Monday after a balcony collapsed on top of him. Magen David Adom paramedic Simcha Simanduyev and EMT Shimon Peresh said: "He was lying on the sidewalk near the building, semi-conscious and surrounded by rubble. He suffered multi-system trauma." The man was evacuated to the city's Sourasky Medical Center.
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