United States: California declared emergency in 13 counties due to winter storm

The winter storms continue to cause great concern among the millions of people in the United States. Local authorities have issued alerts for citizens to take their precautions due to the cold and snowy season. Thus, several California counties have also declared an emergency. Find out what they are below.

USA lives one of the more difficult winters in recent years due to the presence of winter storms that have been recorded in different locations such as California, NY and other states.

According to La Opinión, winter storms that caused enormous amounts of snow to fall travel east from the Wednesday March 1 and a snow storm will be visualized.

Precisely, Storm Prediction Center has pointed out that one of the regions with a great threat of winter storms with snow is ArkLaTex which is classified as a level 4 of 5 threat with severe storms.

THE DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY IN CALIFORNIA

On March 1 Gavin Newsomgovernor of Californiadecided to declare an emergency 13 counties due to damage caused by the passage of winter storms. On the list are:

• The Angels
• Saint Bernardine
• amador
• kern
• Wood
• Butterfly
• Bun
• Snowfall
• San Luis Bishop
• Saint Barbara
• Mountain range
• sonoma
• Tulare

THE WORK OF THE AUTHORITIES

In such a situation the authorities from each county announced that they will be in communication with contractors so that the work of clearing the roads due to snow is faster.

In addition, snowplow machinery has been used and it was agreed to create temporary shelters so that people can stay if they are prevented from returning to their homes.

WHAT OTHER LOCATIONS WILL BE AFFECTED?

He Storm Prediction Center reported that there are certain localities where this type of phenomenon would also be recorded. Some of them are:

• Shreveport, Louisiana
• Tyler (Texas)
• Dallas (Texas)
• ArkLaTex (Arkansas)
• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Memphis (Teenessee)
• mississippi

WHAT ARE THESE THREATS?

He National Weather Service (NWS) He assured, according to La Opinion, that these cities would face a great threat of strong and cold winds of up to 80 mph during the next few hours. To this is added the hail and tornadoes that will be recorded.

It also points out that these tornadoes could be greater than EF-2 in strength by March 2.