April 30, 2014
13.30.20z
The flooding is enormous under the current southern end of the east coast system. Something like 12 inches in the past 24 hours. Infrastructure doesn't hold up to this. In lower elevations there is going to be isolation of communities and emergency routes will be cut off. It's dangerous.
The departure from low temperatures along this east coast system is higher than yesterday. It's the tropical air from the equator. The majority of the country is experiencing double digit lower than normal temperatures because of the arctic air. The east and west coasts are experiencing higher than normal temperatures. The coastal temperatures reveal what the country would look like once the arctic air mass resolves.
The offshore vortex is moving easterly, but, the movement is still slow. There is no ocean system taking shape at this point.
Complete and breaking coverage of the destructive weather hammering states from Iowa to the Carolinas, decimating homes, towns and families. (click here)
This is more than weather. At this point states and emergency services have to anticipate infrastructure failure and consider evacuations. People have to realize they can become isolated in areas flooding with continuing storms.
Tornado alerts were issued for parts of Georgia, Alabama, Florida and North Carolina early Wednesday as the deadly slow-moving storm system brought more extreme weather to the Deep South.
The Weather Channel's
Kevin Roth said the risk of tornadoes Wednesday appeared higher than on
Tuesday with the threat appearing highest from South Carolina into
central Virginia, south of Washington, D.C....
15 inches of water in 12 hours.
15 inches of water in 12 hours.
