U.S. post-holiday travelers can expect a mix of stormy weather this weekend, with blizzard conditions in New Mexico and western Texas, while flooding rain hits the southern plains from south Texas through Indiana, forecasters said on Saturday.
The wet and snowy conditions come after a Christmas Day of unseasonable warmth on the East Coast, with record high temperatures set or tied in several cities including New York, while a tornado hit Alabama late on Friday afternoon, damaging several homes.
"It's going to be a pretty active weekend as far as winter weather," said Evan Duffey, meteorologist for AccuWeather. "It looks like it's going to be pretty bad across the southwest into the southern plains."
Southern states were still cleaning up from tornadoes earlier this week that killed at least 15 people in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said on Friday that two people were still missing.
The twister in Birmingham, Alabama, late on Friday afternoon damaged several homes, uprooted trees and caused a handful of minor injuries, police and weather officials reported.
The tornado-hit areas of Alabama and Mississippi will get another round of rain on Monday night, Duffey said.
Duffey said that given the blizzard conditions expected for Saturday, anyone hoping to travel in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas "should try to get going as soon as you can" to beat the storm.
Those with flights through Dallas, St. Louis, Indianapolis and New Orleans should expect delays, according to AccuWeather.
Heavy snow is possible this weekend for parts of the High Plains to the Upper Midwest, with accumulations of as much as 15 inches (38 cm) in northern Michigan, and up to 10 inches (25 cm) in central and northern Maine, according to the National Weather Service.
Duffey said it was already snowing across the Dakotas and northern Nebraska and that storm system will continue to move north and east.
Unseasonable warm temperatures will continue in the northeast until January, Duffey said.
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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