A winter storm is causing heavy to moderate snow across the East Coast, making travel hazardous and resulting in widespread power outages. Millions are under winter alerts, with areas like the central Plains expecting up to 15 inches of snow. Eastern Seaboard cities, including Washington, D.C., could see 6 to 12 inches, while ice and freezing rain are also impacting parts of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic. Schools and flights are canceled in many areas.
is moving east today from the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic, producing heavy to moderate snow across states in the East and making travel hazardous.
Ice and freezing rain will develop over parts of the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic, ending by this evening over the mid-Atlantic. Dangerous travel conditions will develop over the region.It's havoc on the roads and many flights are canceled — but not everyone is upset at the Winter blast affecting much of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.
All Philadelphia School District Schools are also closed today, the city previously said. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Archdiocesan high schools will have a “flexible instruction day” and elementary schools will be closed, theHeavy snow in Wichita, Kansas, meant low visibility and treacherous conditions this morning, as captured by one resident in the south of the city.
NBC’s Al Roker said the storm is heading to the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast today impacting people from Champaign, Illinois, and Paducah, Kentucky, all the way to the East Coast, including Philadelphia and Washington. He said more snow is on the way, with another 6 to 8 inches of snow in lower New Jersey, Delaware and eastern Maryland.
FlightAware's real-time"Misery Map" showed at 5.30 a.m. ET that the worst affected airport was Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, with 72 flights canceled.While the central Plains and the mid-Atlantic are blasted with ice and snow, the Southeast could see some strong to severe thunderstorms today, the National Weather Service warned.
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