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The next in a series of disturbances from the Pacific Ocean will move into British Columbia on Monday, bringing another batch of wet and windy weather to the West. As the system moves inland, it will tighten pressure gradients across the Northwest, resulting in increasing southerly winds. High Wind Watches will continue for parts of northern California and the Pacific Northwest through the Northern Intermountain West and into the Northern Rockies through late Monday night as strong south winds of 30 to 45 mph with gusts of 50 to 65 mph are expected to sweep across the region. High winds and stronger wind gusts may cause power outages and downed tree damage through the day. In addition to wind, this storm will also bring heavy snow accumulations of 12 to 23 inches to the northern Cascades through Monday as snow levels rise from 3,000 to to 4,000 feet. Expect hazardous driving conditions with this storm at higher elevations as roads become icy and gusty winds and heavy snow lead to periods of blowing and drifting snow with reduced visibilities. Meanwhile, at the lower elevations and near the coast, this system will bring significantly heavy rain to coast and valleys of the Pacific Northwest through Monday with several inches of rain likely by Tuesday morning. The Pacific Northwest coast, coastal mountain range, and Cascades will see the heaviest amounts of precipitation with locally higher amounts of over 10 inches possible in some locations by Tuesday. Heavy rain totals from this storm will likely cause flooding issues especially in small drainage areas of the Pacific Northwest. To the south, scattered showers with relatively high snow levels are anticipated across northern California.
In the Plains, a few areas of showers will lift from the Southern Plains northeastward into the Upper Great Lakes as a trough of low pressure moves into the Central and Southern Plains.
In the East, a lingering low pressure system located off the Southeast coast in the western Atlantic will maintain showers in the Carolinas and chances of showers along the Georgia and eastern Florida coast. Moisture pooling along a frontal boundary stalling across the southern third of the Florida Peninsula may lead to a few showers and isolated thunderstorms in the southern tip of Florida.
SUNDAY'S WEATHER EXTREMES:
HIGHEST TEMPERATURE (DEGREES F).........................83 Miami, FL
HIGHEST HEAT INDEX (DEGREES F)........90 Barking Sands, Hawaii
LOWEST TEMPERATURE (DEGREES F)...........10 Saranac Lake, NY
LOWEST WIND CHILL (DEGREES F)......................-52 Eagle, Alaska
HIGHEST WIND GUST (MPH)..................58 Cape Romanzoff, Alaska
HIGHEST PRECIPITATION (INCHES)..................1.75 Wilmington, NC
ON THIS DATE
The Fujita scale's developer died on this date in 1998. Theodore Fujita developed the scale to classify the damage caused by tornadoes. He was also credited for the discovery of sudden, severe downdrafts called microbursts. He controversially blamed microbursts for the crash of a 1975 airliner. This assertion was ignored for years before it became accepted by meteorologists.

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