Holiday weekend, more than 70 Million People are under a Severe Weather threat as intense tornadoes baseball hail add Near Hurricane Force Winds hit the Central Plains and parts of the midwest. Lets bring in now cnn meteorologist, at elisa rafah. So at least so what areas are you watching most closely . We are really bullseye in parts of oklahoma and kansas today. Again. And whats been a very active Severe Weather season. We have a moderate risk level four out of five there you can see in the red from its your todd down towards Oklahoma City where we could find baseballsized hail intense, strong, long live, violent tornadoes possible, and damaging wind gusts. Notice is if youre Weather Threat though, does stretch down across the deep south, including places like atlanta. And then theres another little portion of it up in the northeast as well. But where we could find these ef2 or greater tornadoes with the intense winds that could pack up to 100 or more miles per hour. Thats in the bul
reporter: in chicago, it came close to the warmest christmas in 147 years buddy hall says it s one of the strangest things she s seen. i haven t seen a christmas like this and i m 60. reporter: most of the region is blanketed with unseasonable heat with some of the highest christmas temperatures in years from kansas city to st. louis to louisville at or near 70 degrees. a far cry from southern california, where many are bracing for the worst with heavy rain across the region, all a few days after the area was pounded. as the holiday weekend, the california storms will clear out barreling east, hitting the planes from minnesota to texas bringing temperatures back down to reality for the midwest, potential headaches for travelers heading home and the biggest concern for the storm is that expected to strike in just the next few hours now is exactly what you see behind me these areas so badly scarred and burned from the recent wildfires
We don t have permission for that video yet but it is on my twitter feed. areas of kentucky, illinois and indiana, a rainy morning for you from st. louis to louisville. it s been raining all morning long and all night long in atlanta. flood watch has been dropped so that s good. from athens to greenville to asheville and boone we are expecting a wet day, possibility of minor flooding concerns. this is a slow moving storm. it s not going to arrive until late tuesday night, early wednesday morning. for today, 7:00 p.m., we take the rain. we bring it to charlotte. raleigh, you stay dry. the clouds will increase. raleigh, you ll have to wait until your tuesday morning. charlotte will be a rainy afternoon today and into tomorrow. washington, d.c., you are dry until 8:00 p.m. tuesday and then the rain moves in. by the time we get to about wednesday about 2:00 a.m. or
Transition to politics. yes. we ll see how it plays out. here s your tuesday forecast now. stormy in southern california from san francisco to san diego. snow around the mountains of l.a. a mix of snow from omaha to des moines. showers from kansas city and st. louis to louisville. and cincinnati. rain in florida. near 80 in orlando. 61 in atlanta. 51 in d.c. 27 in minneapolis. 33 in omaha. and 36 in chicago. phoenix gets all the way up to 72. salt lake city 43. and seattle 55. and next we have a very close brush with disaster. all of it caught on tape. the camera on a snowmobiler s helmet recorded these beautiful pictures of course of a snowy mountain on the border between idaho and wyoming. but it also captured the moment when he reached the top and the mountain gave way under him. believe it or not, he didn t shout expletives, although he was breathing very hard. he just slowly got off his snowmobile and pulled it back
Right now. for those folks cleaning up, more storms headed that way in st. louis? there s a little bit of light rain. nothing too bad. we are watching for the most part some severe storms to the south of st. louis but i think tomorrow is when st. louis will get more heavy rain and bad storms making it more difficult cleaning up at the airport. there s st. louis in the middle of your screen. bright red are the thunderstorms confined down in the ozarks now. as we go throughout the day, we will see coverage increasing. there s a closer view of the storms that went through fayetteville, arkansas, mostly into rural areas. no more tornadoes. i m concerned about flash flooding in the days ahead than i am about severe weather. we ll see a ton of rain. some of our computers estimate another 10 inches is possible in this green colored area where we have flash flood watches and flood watches in effect. that s the area of concern. computers pinpoint another two to three inches st. louis to louis