Winter storm warnings had been in place for a big swath of the Japanese United States on Sunday, from northwestern North Carolina to New York, with as a lot as two ft of snow and harmful journey situations anticipated in some locations into Tuesday, forecasters mentioned.
The storm introduced snow and rain to California final week earlier than transferring via the Midwest, leaving about eight inches of snow in Chicago, the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned.
“It’s pushing eastward and it’s beginning to snow into the Mid-Atlantic up into the Northeast, and we do anticipate a reasonably broad space of probably heavy snows,” mentioned Bob Oravec, a lead forecaster with the Nationwide Climate Service who is predicated in Baltimore.
Snow was anticipated in main metropolitan areas, from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia, New York Metropolis and Boston, as effectively inland throughout northeastern Pennsylvania, upstate New York and most of New England, Mr. Oravec mentioned.
The heaviest snow would seemingly fall in northeastern Pennsylvania and northwestern New Jersey.
“Anytime you’ve gotten a storm that strikes throughout these areas you sometimes have your standard excessive impacts particularly with journey, each automotive and airline,” he mentioned.
Heavy snow was anticipated to develop northward from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts on Sunday night into Monday and proceed via Maine on Tuesday.
Journey alongside and west of the Interstate 95 hall from Pennsylvania to Maine would seemingly be affected, the National Weather Service said.
It’s a “comparatively slow-moving storm,” Mr. Oravec mentioned, however the anticipated snowfall is common for a winter storm this time of 12 months.
In New York, 12 to 18 inches of snow had been anticipated for a lot of the Tristate area, the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned, with as much as 24 inches potential in some locations. Close to blizzard-like situations had been potential alongside the coast on Monday.
In New York Metropolis, Mayor Invoice de Blasio mentioned in-person faculties can be closed on Monday due to the snowstorm.
A warning issued for the Washington metropolitan space and Baltimore predicted as much as 9 inches of snow in some locations. The anticipated snowfall would break 709 days with out greater than an inch of snow recorded at Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport, Mr. Oravec mentioned.
In Pennsylvania, forecasters mentioned journey may very well be not possible and predicted 11 to fifteen inches of snow in locations. Some areas in central, northern and northwestern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania may obtain as much as 18 inches of snow, with winds of as much as 35 m.p.h.
Freezing rain was additionally seemingly in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned.