What We Know: Key takeaways on ‘potentially crippling’ storm

It forecast up to 2 feet (61 cm) of snow in Washington, and as much as 30 inches (75 cm) in western suburbs, with winds gusting to 50 miles per hour (80 kph). Blizzard watches have been issued from Arkansas through Virginia and up the East Coast. “You have heavy snow and rain, very strong winds, and significant flooding”, Sussex County Emergency Operations Center Director Joseph L. Thomas said.

Snow could be dry and fluffy when it starts, but as the storm intensifies it will become wetter and heavier, increasing the risk of downed trees and power lines, the weather service said.

Virginia state police tweeted that troopers responded to “767 crashes & 392 calls for disabled vehicles Wednesday, majority in #NOVA”, an abbreviation for Northern Virginia.

With more winter weather approaching, people throughout the region readied themselves for blocked roads, power outages and cancelled flights.

Heavy rain and snow will fall across the south on Friday.

“We’re preparing for a blizzard“, Bowser said.

The National Weather Service put Washington and Baltimore under blizzard warnings from 3 p.m. Eastern (2000 GMT) Friday through Sunday morning.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a state of emergency and was coordinating with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Predictions show accumulations of 5 to 9 inches and travel is expected to be extremely hazardous. The strongest winds and potentially life-threatening conditions are expected on Friday night through Saturday night.

The National Weather Service has issued winter weather alerts across the state of Pennsylvania as well as for areas in West Virginia ahead of the winter storm.

A colossal winter storm forecast to bring heavy snow to at least 15 states over the weekend was taking shape over the Plains early Thursday. The airports included vary by airline but include some cities in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia all the way up the coast to New Hampshire and MA. “We chose to walk and it’s pretty icy on the roads too when you’re walking”, one woman said. He says folks who say the hype surrounding the storm is overblown need to rethink.

The NWS is forecasting that there is a possibility of snow accumulations of 4 to 8 inches.

The storm is expected to cause havoc for travelers. Roanoke, Virginia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, could get more than 2 feet, The Weather Channel said. Thousands of abortion opponents gather to listen to speeches before marching to the Supreme Court.

According to the weather service, Washington has received only five snow events totaling more than 17 inches of snowfall over a maximum three-day period since record keeping began in 1884.

He said more than 575 salt spreaders would be pre-deployed on Friday evening and that the city had 303,000 tons of rock salt on hand.

“We live right around corner so it’s no problem getting here, no matter how bad it gets”, Cohen said.