The US East Coast has seen up to 2ft (60cm) of snow as the blizzard, known as Storm Jonas, sweeps across the country.
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Here’s what to expect – including expected snowfall amounts and flight cancellations- as the blizzard known as “Winter Storm Jonas” blows through the Northeast this weekend. More than 2ft of snow has been dumped in some places and the death toll is expected to rise as the storm worsens. Strong, potentially damaging winds, along with coastal storm surges, are expected from MA down to SC.
– Airlines have cancelled thousands of flights for January 23 and January 24.
Snow is predicted to bury Washington, D.C., in a blanket two feet deep, with Philadelphia bracing for 18 inches and NY up to a foot, according to estimates by the National Weather Service.
The same low pressure system, which has threatened to drop more than 100cm of snow in certain areas of the United States, is heading across the Atlantic, but will be extremely modified by the time it reaches British shores. The storm “fits the pattern of volatility that we often see in weather, really across the country, during an El Niño winter”, he said. President’s Day storm of 2003A major snowstorm hit eastern NY and western New England on February 14-19, 2003. We have the latest information about this East Coast blizzard right here!
A visible image from NOAA’s GOES-East satellite at 1830 UTC (1:30 p.m. EST) showed clouds associated with the winter storm stretching from Arkansas to the northeastern USA coast.
For more updates on the storm and weather conditions, the National Weather Service is providing round-the-clock updates as well as safety advisories during extreme winter conditions. Experts say close to 50 million people will be under a winter storm warning of one kind or another.
With the snow and ice will likely come blackouts.
Of course, the storm forecast this weekend is still just a prediction.
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