The National Weather Service says high temperatures in the 80s later this week across Washington will melt mountain snow and threaten flooding on some rivers.
Another round of storms moved Tuesday into tornado-ravaged areas of Missouri, Arkansas and several other states where residents are still picking up from the weekend's killer twisters.
Heavy rain Sunday and Monday left tens of thousands without power, closed roads and schools, flooded basements, stranded motorists and even caused a roof fire in Anne Arundel.
More than 25 years ago, a rash of deaths among tornado victims trapped in cars in Wichita Falls, Texas prompted what is now a basic tenet of storm safety: When a twister is on the horizon, stay out of your car.
As authorities released the names Monday night of six people who died when a massive tornado hit a fading mining town in far northeastern Oklahoma, they said a seventh person died earlier in the day.
A wet, gusty storm that lashed the mid-Atlantic states Monday forced evacuations, flooded roads, fanned the flames of a deadly New Jersey fire and wrecked a research vessel off the Delaware coast, killing a crew member.