'Kitchen Sink' Weather Pattern Delivering Winter Storms, Severe Weather, Flooding, Arctic Air And Record Heat

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11-02-2025

We've all probably heard the phrase "everything but the kitchen sink" at some point in our lives, and sometimes the atmosphere does its rendition of this expression like we are seeing right now in the U.S.
In the meteorological world, it means we are checking the box of multiple major conditions within several days, except for a hurricane in this case.
Let's briefly step through everything we are watching, from multiple winter storms to severe weather, flooding rain, a debris flow threat, arctic cold and even record warmth.
-The first storm, named Harlow by The Weather Channel, is spreading snow and ice from the Ohio Valley into the mid-Atlantic through Tuesday night. It will exit the East Coast by Wednesday morning.
-On its heels is Winter Storm Iliana's snowfall from the Plains to the Great Lakes and Northeast Tuesday night-Thursday.
-Finally, a third winter storm entering California Thursday will bring more snow to parts of the Midwest and Northeast this weekend, but details are still a bit uncertain for those regions.
-The warm side of those winter storms will produce severe weather in a first-round Wednesday, especially from eastern Louisiana to central and southern Mississippi and Alabama. Wind damage and a couple of tornadoes are possible.
-A second round of severe weather could materialize Saturday and Saturday night from eastern Texas to western Georgia and southern and middle Tennessee. Damaging winds could accompany those storms, and a tornado threat is possible.
-Heavy rain could produce localized flooding in the South through Wednesday, from eastern Texas to the southern Appalachians.
-This weekend, the flood threat might encompass parts of the South, Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic. Some of those northern areas will see rainfall on top of saturated ground from melting snowpack, which is a setup that can worsen flooding.
-This is the beginning stages of the third winter storm mentioned earlier, but it stands on its own as a major event.
-Lighter rain enters the picture Wednesday, but then a bigger soaking packing gusty winds takes shape in the Golden State Thursday into Thursday night. This brings up the concern for flooding and debris flows in Southern California's fire-ravaged burn areas. Recently saturated areas in Northern California might see renewed localized flooding too, including around the Bay Area.
-On top of that, the Sierra Nevada will see feet of wind-driven, heavy snowfall, likely severely impacting travel through passes.
-Piling onto this active weather pattern is a pair of arctic air intrusions.
-The worst of the first bout has already engulfed the central U.S. and will keep temperatures there as much as 20 to 40 degrees colder than average through Thursday morning. Some of that cold air will spread into the South and East in a more muted form late week.
-Right behind it is another bout of arctic air nosediving into the central states over the weekend. That batch of chilly air will then spread to the South and East early next week.
-Yep, you read that right. Amid the shivering temperatures in the central states, Florida is threatening daily record highs this week.
-Orlando was forecast to approach its daily record highs of 88 degrees and 89 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. Fort Myers, Daytona Beach and Tampa could flirt with daily record highs on at least one day from Wednesday through Saturday.
Chris Dolce has been a senior digital meteorologist with weather.com for nearly 15 years after beginning his career with The Weather Channel in the early 2000s.