Severe weather forecast around US with high Southwest temperatures, Gulf rain and Rockies snow

PHOENIX – Heat and chilly extremes are anticipated this week within the U.S. Officials warned Southwest citizens to take precautions as a warmth wave strikes east, whilst heavy rains and flooding may drench the Gulf states and snow threatens portions of the Rockies and Northwest.

Extreme warmth unfold throughout Arizona, New Mexico and portions of Texas, Colorado and Kansas as severe weather swept throughout many portions of the U.S. on Sunday. There was once unseasonable chilly within the Pacific Northwest, snow headed to the northern Rocky Mountains and heavy rainfall forecast from the northern Plains to the Upper Midwest.

The National Weather Service estimated greater than 63 million other folks had been underneath warmth advisories on Sunday, stretching from the Southwest northward up via Denver and into Chicago.

Temperatures in Phoenix, which hit 112 levels Fahrenheit (44.4 Celsius) on Saturday, eased rather on Sunday to 110 levels Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius). Weather carrier forecasters say the primary two weeks of June in Phoenix have already got been a mean of five.6 levels Fahrenheit warmer than commonplace, making it the most up to date begin to June on document.

“We have already seen some pretty significantly high temperatures in our area,” stated Ted Whittock, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix. “We are recommending that everybody cut back their time open air between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., keep hydrated and put on mild, looser becoming clothes.”

The heat in metro Phoenix will ease a bit Monday through Wednesday, with the highs pushing back up as the week progresses, likely prompting another excessive heat warning, Whittock said.

The warmth has been particularly bad in recent times in metro Phoenix, the place 645 people died from heat-related reasons in 2023, which was once a document.

The city and Maricopa County have adopted additional measures this year in hopes of keeping people safer, including two new overnight cooling centers where people can rest in air conditioning after the sun goes down. There are more than 100 other cooling centers that have been open since May 1 where people can get cold water and sit in a cool space during daytime hours.

In neighboring New Mexico, a heat advisory was in effect over the weekend for the Chavez County plains including Roswell, where the high was forecast to hit 107 degrees F (41.6 degrees C) on Monday. The high for Albuquerque reached 99 degrees F (37 C) on Sunday and is forecast to cool slightly to 98 degrees F (36 C) on Monday. The high Sunday was 104 F (40 C) in El Paso, Texas, which opened five cooling centers.

Temperatures in Colorado ranged from near 90 degrees F (32.2 C) in areas of metropolitan Denver Sunday to 100 degrees F (37.7 C) in the southern city of Pueblo, with temperatures expected to surpass 100 degrees F Monday in the southern reaches of the state.

The heat wave was moving eastward Sunday into the Plains and the Great Lakes area and was expected to arrive in the Northeast by Tuesday. The threat of thunderstorms with potential high winds and heavy rainfall increased in the Chicago area, even as heat indices were forecast to reach near 100 degrees F (37.7 C) through the middle of the week.

As the heat wave spreads eastward, temperatures in Washington, D.C., and the rest of the mid-Atlantic, as well as New England, were likely to see highs in the mid- to upper-90s as the week progresses, with excessive humidity making it feel even more oppressive.

The U.S. remaining 12 months noticed the most heat waves, consisting of abnormally sizzling weather lasting greater than two days, since 1936.

While much of the country swelters, late season snow was forecast for the northern Rockies Monday and Tuesday. Parts of Montana and north-central Idaho were under a winter storm warning, with as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of heavy, wet snow expected in the mountains around Missoula, Montana. As much as 20 inches (51 centimeters) was predicted for higher elevations around Glacier National Park.

Meanwhile, a fresh batch of tropical moisture will bring an increasing threat of heavy rain and flash flooding to the central Gulf Coast late Sunday into Monday. Heavy rain is expected to start Monday morning, with the moisture shifting toward the Gulf Coast by Tuesday.

The intense flooding from heavy rains continued to dissipate in southern Florida, where some areas in and around Miami and Fort Lauderdale were left underwater in recent days as storms dumped up to 20 inches (50 centimeters).

That unnamed storm system coincided with the early get started of storm season, which this 12 months is forecast to be among the most active in fresh reminiscence.