A powerful winter storm is impacting the Eastern US with heavy snow, making travel dangerous. Millions are under winter alerts from the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic.
A winter storm 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. This morning 62 million people are under winter alerts stretching from Illinois to southern New Jersey. In the central Plains, 15 inches of snow could fall, the highest in a decade or more, with roads becoming impassable. Eastern Seaboard cities including Washington, D.C.
, could get 6 to 12 inches of snow, making things tough for commuters, with 2 to 4 inches expected across parts of the Ohio Valley and the central Appalachians. Ice and freezing rain will develop over parts of the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic, ending by this evening. Dangerous travel conditions will develop over the region. There is still high uncertainty regarding where the heaviest snow could fall, but trends show wintry precipitation could hit areas from Texas to the Mid-Atlantic. The storm will develop over the southern Plains on Thursday, with rain, snow and ice in Oklahoma City, Dallas and Little Rock overnight into Friday. On Friday, the storm will move east, bringing rain and storms to the Gulf Coast/Southeast and snow to the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, and on Saturday snow could fall in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Snow is tapering off across portions of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio but still falling heavily across Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. A mix of freezing rain and sleet is also falling across southern Virginia and northern North Carolina.The winter storm will continue east today, with snow off the Atlantic coast by midnight tonight. Washington, D.C., will see snow until about 10 a.m., a lull of no snow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., followed by another burst of light snow through 10 p.m., with an additional 2 to 4 inches of snow possible. Philadelphia will see light snow wind down by around 3 to 4 p.m. and is forecast to see an additional 2 inches of snow
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