A potentially historic snowstorm is about to bring the Northeast to a standstill.
Video Ad Feedbackis slamming the Northeast with heavy snow, and blizzard conditions are incoming. Two feet of snow is possible in the hardest-hit places, with more than a foot in Philadelphia, New York City and Boston — thewill go into effect Sunday evening as it stares down blizzard conditions and what could be its biggest snowstorm in years.
The city alsoHeavy snow bands , are sweeping inland across the Northeast. These narrow bursts of heavy snow can bring rapid accumulation and sudden whiteouts, making travel dangerous.Cars move through the snow as the city braces for a blizzard expected to linger through tomorrow, on Sunday in New York City.More than 40 million people are under blizzard warnings along the East Coast from the Delmarva Peninsula up to Maine. Snow will be particularly heavy overnight as dangerous winds whip to 70+ mph along the coast, creating whiteout conditions and making travel nearly impossible.Around 100,000 to 150,000 power outages are projected by the state’s power utility due to worsening winter weather conditions, said Providence Mayor Brett Smiley. “There’s only a million people in Rhode Island, and that’s 100,000 to 150,000 households. So that is a significant potential impact to the power grid here,” said Smiley to CNN’s Polo Sandoval. Providence could get more than 24 inches of snow on top of winds clocking in at 50 to 60 miles per hour, which could cause whiteout conditions, according to the National Weather Service.ban starting at 7 p.m. Sunday and continuing until further notice. The city has ticketed and removed a couple hundred cars off the roads to allow snowplows to operate in their narrow streets, he said. “We’ve had to get pretty aggressive. And I don’t like being punitive like that, but it’s the only way that we can fairly deliver services for all of our residents,” said Smiley.Temperatures in many spots across the mid-Atlantic have been hovering around freezing, allowing snowflakes to partially melt and pack together, creating wet, dense snow. This “heart attack snow” is twice as heavy as the typical white stuff — brutal to shovel. It places an incredible amount of weight on power lines and can also collapse roofs, carports and trees. Shoveling it can spike your heart rate and blood pressure, like a stress test at the doctor’s office, and the cold stresses the heart on its own. Dozens of people die each year from cardiac-related snow-shoveling incidents, a study in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine found.CNN’s Gloria Pazmino talks to New Yorkers outside Central Park who say they have had enough of the snow. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued a travel ban beginning at 9 p.m. Sunday, and schools will be closed Monday.Travel for active FEMA disaster response will continue amid a partial government shutdown ensnaring the Department of Homeland Security and a significant winter storm slamming the Northeast, the agency said Sunday evening. “Despite the current funding lapse of DHS, FEMA travel related to active disasters is not cancelled,” DHS said in a statement. “FEMA continues mission-essential operations for active disasters, including immediate response and critical survivor assistance.”The governors of New York and Massachusetts have activated National Guard troops in their respective states to help support residents amid blizzard conditions. “We have over 100 members – more if necessary – staged across Long Island, New York City, and Lower Hudson Valley,”Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey also declared a state of emergency ahead of tonight’s storm. “First of all, I’m declaring a state of emergency effectively in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” Healey said earlier Sunday during a news conference at the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency bunker. “This enables us to respond to conditions,” Healey said. “It helps us to deploy necessary resources and to support our residents’ safety.”A plow starts removing snow from a residential street during the beginning of an intense winter storm, on Sunday, in Fort Lee, New Jersey.Power outages are mounting in New Jersey, where winds are gusting up to 40 mph near the state’s coast as aSnow reports are rolling in across the Mid-Atlantic. Hover over or tap the dots to see exactly how much has been reported in each location.Snow will fall steadily and heavily across New York City and parts of southern New England tonight into Monday morning, warned the Storm Prediction Center in a special discussion issued today. Some of the heaviest bands are capable of producing blizzard conditions, dumping one to two inches of snow per hour, especially after midnight.There have been “a few accidents in the last hour” on New York City streets due to the winter storm, said Christina Farrell, commissioner of the city’s Emergency Management Department. As the evening progresses and heavy snow bands continue to move onshore, road travel is quickly becoming difficult to impossible in many areas, including NYC. The city is forecasted to accumulate at least 12 inches of snow.that takes effect at 9 p.m. and lasts until noon Monday. The ban is “first and foremost” about public safety, but it will also help the city clear the roads, Farrell said. “The less cars on the road, the easier it is for to get the roads clear,” she told CNN’s Jessica Dean this evening. The city’s sanitation, transportation and parks departments are all working, Farrell said. There are 2,600 sanitation workers on rotating 12-hour shifts, she said, and paid contractors are expected to start clearing bus shelters, sidewalks and other pedestrian areas tonight.A Republican source told CNN on Sunday afternoon that the House would postpone votes from Monday to Tuesday. Senate Republican Whip John Barrasso’s office said Sunday night the chamber would also postpone its first vote series.Philadelphians brave heavy wind and snow in center city as a winter storm delivered rain turning into heavy snow on Sunday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Light to moderate snowfall will continue for a few more hours in the DC region, becoming more scattered in nature by midnight.Moderate to heavy snow will continue to fall in and around the city through midnight, with blizzard conditions possible at times as the winds pick up out of the northeast.Moderate to heavy snow will continue to fall in and around the city through midnight, with blizzard conditions likely at times. Winds will strengthen out of the northeast, gusting to 40 mph or higher as the storm intensifies off the coast.Snow is expected to develop and quickly become moderate to heavy between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. in the Providence area. Road conditions will rapidly deteriorate once the snow begins to fall.Boston can expect to see the first flakes fly between 9 p.m. and midnight, and the snow will quickly become moderate to heavy at times. A state of emergency has been declared in Maryland ahead of the blizzard, Gov. Wes Moore announced Sunday.“The safety of Marylanders comes first and this storm has the potential to produce life-threatening conditions across large parts of the state,” Moore said in a news release. “Stay off the roads, check on your neighbors, and listen to local authorities. Please be vigilant and take this storm seriously to protect yourself and your loved ones.”After hours of light snow in some locales, this storm is really starting to show what it’s capable of. A band of heavier snow has started to make its way onto land.dropping temperaturesCNN’s Gloria Pazmino talks to New Yorkers outside Central Park who say they have had enough of the snow. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued a travel ban beginning at 9 p.m. Sunday, and schools will be closed Monday.New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill told CNN the state will implement a travel ban for all motorists beginning at 9 p.m. tonight as blizzard conditions intensify. The combination of powerful wind gusts, whiteout conditions and heavy, wet snow will make driving “incredibly dangerous” across the state, Sherrill said. Strong winds could bring down trees and branches, creating additional roadway hazards and increasing the risk of blocked or impassable roads.Heavy rail operations will also halt, with NJ Transit suspending service at 9 p.m. Light rail access, including buses, will stop service at 6 p.m.In a candid moment, Sherrill acknowledged the fatigue many residents are feeling after a brutal stretch of winter weather. “We were all just finally starting to see grass, starting to see the ground again,” she said, noting the last storm brought heavy snow followed by an intense cold snap that iced everything over. “We were just starting to feel like maybe we were getting past that, and now this next snow comes in.”“Employees should plan to arrive for work no more than 2 hours later than they would normally be expected to arrive,” the office said in an alert.
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