Holiday travelers, be wary of these areas
If you’re traveling this week for the Christmas holiday, the main trouble spots for weather will be across portions of the South, the Northwest and Midwest.
The ArkLaTex region into the Tennessee Valley will see heavy rain Tuesday and Wednesday. As much as 3 to 4 inches of rain is possible, the National Weather Service predicted.
The weather service warned of a risk for flash flooding across this region. Cities where flooding is possible include Dallas, Little Rock, Memphis and Nashville. Severe thunderstorms could soak northern Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia on Wednesday.
Rain and snow are forecast for the Northwest and central USA this week. Winter storm watches and warnings have been posted from Northern Cali- fornia into the northern Cascades and across the northern Rockies.
Later in the week, the coldest air of the season is poised to roar into the central USA, all the way from the Rockies to the Great Lakes. The cold comes straight from the Arctic, weather.us meteorologist Ryan Maue said.
How cold? By Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, subzero low temperatures are likely along a broad swath from the Rockies and High Plains to the Upper Midwest and northern Great Lakes, the Weather Channel said.
The weather service predicts a high temperature around 0 degrees for Minneapolis for Christmas Day. In North Dakota, “dangerous,” well-below-zero wind chills are likely, the weather service warned.
“This cold blast may take until after Christmas to reach all of the Northeast,” AccuWeather meteorologist Brett Anderson said.