WINDSOR, Calif. (AP) — U.S. forecasters have issued warnings that a new round of winter weather could complicate travel through the Thanksgiving holiday as California and Washington state continue to recover storm damage and power outages.

In California, where one person was found dead in a vehicle submerged by floodwaters on Saturday, authorities are bracing for more rainfall while dealing with flooding and small landslides of a previous storm.

The National Weather Service office in Sacramento, California, issued a winter storm warning for the Sierra Nevada from Saturday through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at higher elevations and wind gusts up to 55 mph ( 88 km/h). Snowfall totals of about 4 feet (1.2 meters) were forecast, with the heaviest accumulations expected Monday and Tuesday.

The Midwest and Great Lakes regions will see rain and snow Monday and the East Coast will be hardest hit over Thanksgiving and Black Friday, forecasters said.

A low pressure system is expected to bring rain to the Southeast early Thursday before moving northeast. Areas from Boston to New York could see rain and breezes, with snow possible in parts of northern New Hampshire, northern Maine and the Adirondacks. If the system moves further inland, there could be less snow and more rain in the mountains, forecasters said.

“The system doesn’t look like a power plant at the moment,” Hayden Frank, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Massachusetts, said Sunday. “Basically this is going to bring rain to the I-95 corridor, so travelers should prepare for wet weather. Unless the system is much colder, it looks like rain.

Frank said he doesn’t see any major storm systems arriving this weekend in the country, so travelers returning home Sunday can expect good driving conditions. However, temperatures will drop in the East while they will warm up in the West.

Deadly ‘bomb cyclone’ hits West Coast

Earlier this week, two people died when the storm arrived in the Pacific Northwest. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, mostly in the Seattle area, before strong winds swept through Northern California. Rapid intensification bomb cyclone » which hit the West Coast on Tuesday brought strong winds this resulted in damage to the house and vehicle.

Rescue crews in Guerneville, Calif., found a body inside a vehicle floating in floodwaters around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Rob Dillion said, noting that the deceased was presumed to be a victim of the storm but an autopsy had not yet been carried out. conducted.

Santa Rosa, California, experienced its wettest three-day stretch on record with about 12 inches of rain Friday night, the Bay Area National Weather Service reported. Vineyards in nearby Windsor, California, were flooded on Saturday.

Tens of thousands of people without power in the Seattle area

About 36,000 people in the Seattle area were still without power after the largest surge this season. atmospheric rivera long plume of moisture that forms over an ocean and flows over land.

The northeast receives the necessary precipitation

Another storm brought rain to New York and New Jersey, where rare wildfires have raged in recent weeks, and heavy snow to northeastern Pennsylvania. Precipitation should help alleviate drought conditions after an exceptionally dry autumn.

“It’s not going to combat the drought, but it’s certainly going to help when all this melts away,” said Bryan Greenblatt, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Binghamton, New York.

Heavy snow fell in northeastern Pennsylvania, including the Pocono Mountains. Higher elevations were reported up to 17 inches (43 centimeters), with lower accumulations in Valley cities including Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. About 35,000 customers in 10 counties are still without power, down from 80,000 a day ago.

In New York’s Catskills region, nearly 10,000 people were still without power Sunday morning, two days after a storm dumped heavy snow on parts of the region.

Rainfall in West Virginia helped stem the state’s worst drought in at least two decades and boosted ski resorts preparing to open their slopes in the coming weeks.

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Associated Press writer Claire Rush in Portland, Oregon, contributed to this report.

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