turning from a cat 1 or tropical storm to a cat 4 in a short period of time was what i think spooked a lot of people to get out of here because corpus christi at this hour is a ghost town quite frankly, nobody stuck around to see how this was going to go. we haven t seen anybody here. our hotel is filled with media members, and you drive down the streets and it s vacant. people knew not to toy with a cat 3, cat 4, they knew it was a big storm. i think people might say they re due because you live in the gulf, this is part of the life. this is living here. you re going to have hurricanes, big storms. the last big one was ike, and this is the biggest storm to hit the continental united states since 2005. a solid 12 years since we had a nasty storm, that was a bad summer and bad fall in 2005. wrapping thing up here from corpus christi. i would say that the storm is
over three quarters of an inch of rain. relays there. parts of the northeast, that is not a big problem. we have winter storm advisories including this right here. that is for christmas day when we re watching a secondary storm. here is the first storm. more rain moving into southern california. this is a much colder storm though, more rain and snow in the mountains of l.a. by the time we get into sunday, the energy moves in across the far northern plains. nothing that will be too problematic, saturday not that bad, but the west is more accurate. big storms, southern planes. siesing and snow, but hopefully
and so hot in much of the east coast. the humidity is gone after the front moved through and down southeast where it is baking this week. there will be relief. southwest, the heat is focused. northern california and all the way through washington and parts of idaho. there will be a heatwave that is difficult to deal with. 101 for portland oregon 94 in spokane. the heat gets the monsoonal activity going in the southwest. big storms in arizona. big storms in to california which you don t so all that often, but we are getting that and that is good news. temperature wise for today.
indiana. it was an ugly night last night. severe weather all over the plains. [ tornado sirens ] tornado sirens sounding in minneapolis. severe weather pommeled parts of the midwest overnight. damaging winds, large hail and thunderstorms ripping through minnesota to illinois into this morning. drivers scouring to find safety under a bridge as southern minnesota gets slammed with winds up to 80 miles per hour. in kentucky firefighters rescue stranded drivers in louisville as up to 5 inches of rain triggers massive flash flooding over the weekend. cars half way submerged under water. and the severe weather is not over. tornados damaging winds, and large hail expected today throughout the midwest and severe storms swooping into the south by tuesday. carol, big storms already this morning is slowing down chicago s airports. both of them there.
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