NHC has declared Tropical Storm Ana off the Carolina coast. This system is expected to drift towards the coast through the weekend with biggest impacts being coastal gales, flooding rainfall and beach erosion.

As of the 5am advisory, Ana is a 1004mb, 45 mph subtropical storm. Ana is in no hurry, moving at only 1 mph and that’s why NHC still has this technically off the coast still on Sunday morning (below)

Here’s how it’s looking on infrared this morning.

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Meanwhile out on the Plains… as well as destructive tornadoes, it’s been raining big time.

Scene near Beatrice, Nebraska yesterday!

Colorado was split between two seasons with winter storm warning west of Denver while it was severe weather warnings to the east.

As for this weekend, the storm system bring rare May rains into Southern California could produce an all out blizzard over the Rockies.

Even rarer than the rainfall into Los Angeles and San Diego the 6 inches of snow which fell on Big Bear, elevation less than 9,000ft and just outside the LA Basin.

GFS surface shows the system cranking with a near perfect setup for maximum upslope effect.

In this large storm system’s warm sector, look for further tornado producing supercells and flash flood episodes.

Looks like MANY roads could get shut down with this amount of snow expected over the next 5 days.

Let’s not forget that while all this is going on with Ana coming ashore in the Carolinas, severe weather and flooding on the Plains as well as a blizzard in the Rockies, the Northeast will be basking in 80s with 90s possible in a few places.

See video for today’s discussion.

Next update will be Sunday!

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Tags: flooding, May blizzard, may snowstorm, severe weather, snow, Subtropical storm Ana