About 55 million Americans are expected to experience severe weather through Monday with blizzards, heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain. A state of emergency has been declared in some states.
Millions of Americans on the East Coast are threatened with blizzards, heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain through Monday, the National Weather Service said Saturday. The governors of Kentucky and Virginia declared states of emergency ahead of this winter storm.
« The storm is still taking shape said meteorologist Rich Bann of the NWS Weather Prediction Center Saturday evening. “But this storm presents multiple dangers, from heavy snowfall in the plains to icy conditions covering the roads further south.“. He added that more than 60 million people in the United States were affected by alerts this weekend.
A band extending east from Nebraska and Kansas through Ohio, Indiana, southwest Pennsylvania, and northwest Virginia could receive 1 inch to 30 cm of snow. Southern Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee will be hit with freezing rain and ice on Sunday that will make roads dangerous and bring down power lines, according to Rich Bann. “It will be almost impossible to drive in some areas“, he estimated.
The Kansas City International Airport in Missouri temporarily closed Saturday afternoon due to rapid accumulation of ice, local authorities said.
According to the meteorologist, the storm is expected to pass the east coast and reach the Atlantic Ocean late Monday.
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