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Delays are concerned, primarily in texas where you might expect lengthy delays when the thunderstorms kick up once again. dallas and houston, the rainfall could be heavy at times. minneapolis, low clouds and rain first. denver, windy weather conditions and low clouds because area of low pressure that is moving across the interior west will move into the northern tier on the back side of this enough cold air that all the way from sawtooth to the river mountains and front rain and gunnison and was...

Towards the coast, the rain has been relentless. i will mention they have been in moderate to severe drought. but they dont need the rainfall all at once because you can see it has devastating effects. austin, texas, one of the reporting places there saw over 12 inches of rainfall. thats not a storm total. that is just from yesterday. austin typically for the entire month would see something less than 4 inches. so we have already seen four times their normal average for the month. in this region...

A lot of areas across texas have been doing without. not just this particular year, but in years past. we go from the panhandle all the way towards the hill country down towards brownsville and then the state park that are in drought conditions but this will do very little to alleviate that because the rain is coming down so heavy, so fast that there is runoff. so it doesnt really soak into the ground. a lot of agriculture regions around this area but from san antonio to corpus christi. for this...

Agriculture areas, business areas and you can imagine how devastating a hurricane would be that would make land fall. the equivalent of that, a category 4 hurricane. well, across the united states it would be devastating. in this low lying area, its very vulnerable. in the united states, were looking at a taste of winter. all the way from billings, montana, down towards yellowstone park and into the front range of colorado. on the backside of this system, cold enough air that in those higher pea...

Of the state. cnn spoke with one woman who was trapped in her car there for 20 hours. many roads are still closed. the cold front is heading east. its expected to drop a lot of rain across the great lakes. lets bring in alexandra steele. >> heavy rain, cincinnati, an inch of rain already. this is the cold front on the backside was all that snow. we saw the pictures of rapid city downtown, 23 inches, two feet of snow, the number two greatest snowfall they have ever seen. an incredible amount. n...

Alexandra steele, very busy in the cnn severe weather center. so some states hit by the tornadic activity, and then were also talking about snow in others. >> yes. you know, fred, its really the weather trifecta playing around the country. of course the snow weve been talking about. another 15 to 20 inches potentially. of course the tornados that we saw. again 18 potentially. six thus far have been confirmed in three states. and also a fire threat thats pretty dramatic in southern california. so...

Never got bigger, thats the great news. and then the storm will travel right like this and stay offshore most of the way. and 35-mile-per-hour storm in the gulf of mexico and it will kind of ruin your beach day, thats all its going to do right now, don. >> can you talk about this, there is also snowfall in the country, so early, october 5th. >> unbelievable. theres 30 to 40 inches of snowfall in parts of wyoming into south dakota. we showed you pictures earlier, people digging out. it looked lik...

Pictures is on the phone with me now. terry anderson joins me in sturgis, south dakota, so, te y terry, you are used to harsh winters in south dakota. in the plains. but this is crazy. when have you ever seen something like this, this early on in the season? >> you know, don, its just pretty unusual for this early in the season. we usually get snowstorms in early october, but you might see a couple inches. and this was 30-plus inches. and id say its going to be probably by tomorrow before we can...

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