Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Cross-country storm brings final act of flooding, snow to Northeast
Top weather news for Friday, Jan. 31, 2025: The FOX Forecast Center is tracking a sprawling coast-to-coast storm as it finishes its journey across the country. The powerful storm is blasting millions of people from the Southwest to the Northeast with a trio of threats, including heavy snow, severe weather and flooding rain.
Weather in America: January 31, 2025
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Friday, January 31, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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Northeast faces icy roads as coast-to-coast storm arrives
The FOX Forecast Center is tracking a sprawling coast-to-coast storm as it finishes its journey across the country.
The storm, which began in Southern California last weekend, is producing widespread rain and some wintry weather across the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Northeast. To the south, thunderstorms are rumbling across the northern Gulf Coast. The precipitation will continue into Friday night before ending early Saturday morning as the system moves off into the Atlantic.
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'Pineapple Express' among atmospheric river events heading towards California
A series of atmospheric river events promises to deliver heavy precipitation in the form of valley rain and mountain snow across Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, with the potential for significant impacts around the San Francisco Bay Area.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, the first round of significant precipitation will begin on Friday, with additional waves of moisture through the weekend and into the upcoming workweek.
Forecast models show more than 6 inches of rainfall could occur in the highest rainfall accumulation zones, while feet of snow look likely from the extreme northern Sierra Nevada into the Cascades.
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Drone video shows wildfires burning Helene-ravaged town in North Carolina
Wildfires erupted in western North Carolina, burning through the now-dry Appalachian mountainsides that were drenched by Helene months ago.
Drone video shot Wednesday night shows one of those wildfires ablaze near the town of Old Fort in McDowell County. It creates a line of neon orange running down the mountainside, eerily resembling lava pouring down a volcano.
Drone video shows western North Carolina wildfire as area continues to recover from Helene
Nighttime drone footage shows a wildfire glowing in neon orange as it burned on a mountainside near Old Fort, North Carolina, on Wednesday,
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