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Wild weather continues across the US, as two more major storms roll across the country this week.

The first system threatens to bring heavy rain and damaging winds across the eastern US, including New York City and Washington starting Tuesday. High wind warnings and advisories stretch from Texas to Maine where gusts between 30 miles to 50 miles (48 to 80 kilometers) per hour are possible. While flooding rains and tropical-storm-strength gusts batter the eastern US, the Great Plains and Midwest could get as much as 8 inches to 12 inches (30 centimeters) of snow. Chicago will likely get only 2 to 5 inches.

“It’s one huge storm and often in winter you can have a lot of different characteristics with a storm and this one has them all,’’ said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster with the US Weather Prediction Center. “It’s a pretty impactful week.”

Meanwhile winter storm and blizzard warnings are up across the Pacific Northeast, where gusts up to 50 miles per hour could batter Seattle.

Tuesday’s storm arrives after a weekend system dumped heavy snow across the Hudson River Valley in New York across much of central and northern New England. The new storm will arrive with higher temperatures in most places, bringing rain to help melt the snowpack and cause flooding in many areas. Across the South from Tallahassee to Wilmington, North Carolina there is an enhanced risk of tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and hail.

“It looks like a real mess,” Oravec said.

Across the US on Tuesday, more than 500 flights were cancelled with the majority of them in Chicago, Houston, and Seattle, according to FlightAware, an airline tracking company. Dozens of flights have also been scrubbed in Newark.

More than 337,000 customers were without power in 11 states, according to PowerOutage.us. The hardest hit areas were along the US Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida.In New York City and Long Island flood watches are posted until Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service. There could be flooding from the Gulf Coast up the East Coast as well. Oravec said there are already reports of up to 6 inches of rain in Louisiana and Mississippi.The storm will wind down Wednesday and then the next system will come east Friday potentially bringing blizzard conditions to Chicago and another round of heavy rain along the East Coast. While temperatures will be mild to start, they will plunge as the storm passes.

In other weather news:

Canada: Rain and snow will make traveling difficult in Ottawa and Toronto, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Europe: The continent is forecast to get some weekend respite from the Arctic weather that’s taken hold, before the freeze intensifies again.

Australia: Heavy rains and flooding across Australia’s southern state of Victoria has damaged crops and stranded cattle as a months-long run of wild weather on the nation’s east coast leaves a trail of destruction.

Japan:  The country’s spot electricity price rose on colder temperatures and with cloudy weather likely to curb some solar output.

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