Tornados in South, snow, sleet in East; record heat in West

Tornados in South, snow, sleet in East; record heat in West, Suspected tornados angry to a all-inclusive winter storm arrangement that formed abundant of the East Coast with snow and barrage accept angry homes to bits and damaged a academy in the South.

There were no actual letters of any deaths or austere injuries from the credible twisters admitting assemblage said one 94-year-old woman had to be pulled from beneath the storm bits in one Florida Panhandle association on Monday. State Police in Virginia appear at atomic three cartage fatalities on anchorage slickened by snow and sleet.

The doubtable tornadoes affected down in the northwest bend of Florida's Panhandle and in Mississippi on Monday, antibacterial added than a dozen homes, damaging a academy while it was in affair and accoutrement the aged woman, authorities and assemblage said.

Those storms spun off of a all-inclusive arrangement that clobbered ample areas of the East Coast with added barrage and snow, coast abounding in the Northeast into a abysmal freeze. In the West, it was a actual altered story: Both Arizona and California basked in record-high temperatures in the top 80s and low 90s at the alpha of the week.

Officials in Florida and Mississippi were investigating letters of at atomic three accessible tornadoes. One of the credible twisters swept through Century, a rural boondocks in the northwest Florida's Panhandle, antibacterial or decidedly damaging about 10 homes, Escambia County backer Joy Tsubooka said.

Donald Pugh was at home in Century, Florida, if the carry tore through his adjacency of baby wood-frame houses and adaptable homes, downing copse and ability lines. Pugh told The Associated Press that just afterwards the storm he and added neighbors acclimated a alternation saw to chargeless a 94-year-old woman from the bits of her home.

"It took us absolutely a while," he said, abacus she was trapped for a time beneath a askance metal door. The woman talked to the men as they formed to chargeless her. "She was cogent us breadth she was and that she was OK," Pugh said.

She appeared to accept accessory injuries, but was taken to a hospital as a anticipation because of her age, authorities said.

Escambia County Administrator Jack Brown said seek crews arrested for hours as a anticipation after through the bits but there were no after letters of any others trapped in rubble.

In Mississippi, windows were destroyed out of cars and two gymnasiums and a library were damaged at a K-12 academy in Wesson breadth accouchement were in appearance if abundant thunderstorms and a accessible tornado beyond at atomic 19 counties. There were no letters of any acceptance injured, said Mississippi Department of Education backer Patrice Guilfoyle. Mississippi's emergency administration admiral appear at atomic 15 barrio and homes damaged or destroyed.

Elsewhere in the South, Virginia remained beneath a winter storm admonishing until 10 a.m. with authorities admonishing humans to break off the roads. Virginia State Police said there were at atomic three baleful crashes and added that two troopers and a firefighter were addled at blast scenes in the Richmond breadth Monday night. No added advice about their altitude was anon available.

In North Carolina, ablaze freezing rain, barrage and snow acquired wrecks and bankrupt schools and businesses.

Further up the heavily busy East Coast, National Weather Service astrologer Bruce Sullivan said there could be 4 to 8 inches of snow in eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and western New York.

Many aswell were algidity through absinthian cold. In several Northeastern cities — including New York, Boston and Hartford, Connecticut — temperatures on Sunday biconcave beneath zero, falling to bare 40 on Mount Washington in New Hampshire.

In the West, Arizona and California were baking in the heat: It was 89 in city Los Angeles, breaking 1977's almanac of 88. The National Weather Service forecasts Phoenix will accept highs of 89 on Tuesday and 92 on Wednesday, aloft the antecedent annal of 84 and 88 degrees, respectively.

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