At least two people have died and hundreds of thousands of homes across the United States are without power Tuesday, as swaths of the nation continue to deal with snow, rain and, in some cases, tornadoes.
Severe storms charged across the Gulf Coast Tuesday morning and 52 million people from northern Texas to Michigan and parts of New England are under winter alerts.
More than 417,000 customers had no power as of 1 p.m. ET, according to the PowerOutage.us website, including more than 178,000 in Louisiana, Georgia and Florida combined.
Several tornadoes were reported early Tuesday in Florida. In total, 180 million people from Texas to Florida and all of the East Coast are under wind alerts. A tornado watch is in effect through 9 p.m. for several coastal locations in Florida and through 7 a.m. Wednesday in the southwestern part of Alabama.
A woman died Tuesday morning when a tornado hit southern Houston County, Alabama, sources told local station WTVY of Dothan. Meanwhile, one person in suburban Atlanta died after a tree fell on a car in Clayton County on Tuesday morning. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene and the death is being investigated as a weather-related fatality, police said.
"Reports of flooding are coming in from all across the area," the National Weather Service in Atlanta said in a post on X.
The thunderstorms will continue moving east, while snow and wind continues across the Midwest and Great Lakes and heavy rain and high wind moves into the Northeast by the afternoon.
In Chicago, peak winter and wind impacts will be felt Tuesday through 3 a.m. Wednesday morning. In Atlanta, strong storms, gusty winds and flood risk will last through the afternoon.
The nation's capital will see peak flood and wind impacts until 11 p.m. Tuesday; New York, from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. Wednesday; and Boston, from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Schools were shut in several states and parts of two interstate highways closed as more than a foot of snow landed on a huge area from southeastern Colorado to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
The weather service said heavy rain would make flooding a risk all the way from the Florida Panhandle to southern Maine.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Tuesday for 49 counties due to the severe weather. Emergency services in Florida shared images of damaged buildings and broken power lines, after a tornado made its way across Calhoun County and into Panama City.
The weather service in Seattle issued a rare blizzard warning for western Washington on Monday night, its first for the area since 2012, before whiteout conditions descended.
The state Transportation Department ordered all cars to have chains on their tires on deteriorating mountain roads, adding that "there’s no shame in asking yourself if you and/or your vehicle are prepared for blizzard conditions on a mountain pass."
For some, the extreme weather is set to continue. The weather service said in an advisory early Tuesday that a major storm system would hammer the eastern U.S. “with widespread heavy rain, strong winds, and severe thunderstorms on Tuesday into early Wednesday.”
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency across the state to begin at 5 p.m. Tuesday in preparation for storms expected to cause heavy rain, high winds and flash flooding.
The state could get "one to four inches of heavy rain, strong winds, and potential inland and coastal flooding" Tuesday through Wednesday morning, he said in a statement Monday.
"As always, I urge all New Jerseyans — including residents in our coastal and riverine communities — to follow all safety protocols and remain off the roads unless absolutely necessary," Murphy added.
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