After lashing the state and parts of the Southeast with rain and wind, power outages remained as the chief concerns.
Irma, now a tropical storm, is weakening, but dangers still remain as it tears a path through the Southeast with rain and lashing winds.
Much less is known about impacts of megafauna on Southeast Asian rain forests.
The red-fronted lemur inhabits a long stretch of western Madagascar's dry forest, as well as a much smaller portion of southeast Madagascar rain forest.
That warm water influences climate patterns around the world, increasing the likelihood of wet and cool weather in the Southeast, heavy rain in California, warm and dry conditions in the Pacific Northwest, and host of other global impacts.
FewsNet, which is funded by the United States government, has warned of continuing "food security emergency" in the country's southeast, where rains have failed for the last three years in a row and political conflict has displaced an estimated 200,000 people.
By midnight, the snow had changed to rain southeast of a line stretched across northern New Jersey and coastal Connecticut, but it was still snowing in the foothills of the Catskills, the weather service said.
(And, of course, there's the lasting impression from "The Wizard of Oz"). The Southeast often gets "rain-wrapped tornadoes," Carbin says, which are harder to see than dramatic funnel clouds roaring across the flatlands.
At least six deaths were blamed on Michael, the most powerful hurricane to hit the continental U.S. in over 50 years, and by early Friday it wasn't over yet: a tropical storm long after Wednesday's landfall, Michael stubbornly kept up its punch while barreling up the Southeast, dumping heavy rains and spreading flash flooding misery as far away as Virginia.
Severe thunderstorms with heavy rain struck southeast Texas and South Louisiana overnight, killing four people in Texas, flooding roads and shutting schools.
