El Nino continues its winter of madness: East Coast braces for its first cold spell of the season while west coast will see unprecedented WEEK of rain
Temperatures in East will be 5-20 degrees lower after record warm December
California to expect six inches of rain and 1-2 feet of snow on higher ground
Mayor Eric Garcetti warned Californians to prepare as ‘the storm is coming’
NASA warned that extreme El Nino could cause yet more madness this year
By JAMES DUNN
DailyMail.com
4 January 2016
Record high temperatures will plunge in the East and the West will see unprecedented rainfall as El Nino continues to cause bizarre weather across the US.
After one of the warmest Decembers on record, the East Coast is expecting its first cold snap, with temperatures expected to be 5-20 degrees colder than average this January.
On the West Coast, up to six inches of rain are expected to hit California this week as storms batter the state, and could even bring up to two feet of rain to higher ground tomorrow.
Warnings come after the Mississippi River and most other waterways in Missouri and Illinois flooded last week, when 10-14 inches of rain fell over a wide swath of the two states.
The water receded in most places Sunday but continued to rise in others, as the clean up and damage assessments had only just begun.
Twenty-five deaths in the two states were blamed on flooding, nearly all of them the result of vehicles driving over flooded roadways.
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