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“This is going to be a big one, historic,” Moore said. “There could be paralyzing, crippling blizzard conditions.”
New York City area was placed under a 35-hour blizzard warning beginning Monday afternoon, with as much as 3 feet of snow expected to create “paralyzing, crippling” conditions, forecasters said Sunday. It’s part of a storm system that meteorologists said will pummel the Northeast from Philadelphia all the way to northern New England with potentially “historic” snow accumulations well into Tuesday night.
The worst of it will be late Monday through Tuesday night, with blizzard conditions, possible airport closings and major flight delays, damaging wind gusts and possible coastal flooding, the National Weather Service warned. The nation’s largest city was put under an extraordinarily long blizzard warning stretching from 1 p.m. Monday to midnight Tuesday.
“Very highly populated areas of the Northeast are going to get crushed with snow,” said Tom Moore, coordinating meteorologist for The Weather Channel. “Everywhere … you’re going to get get hit very hard by this storm.”
“This could be the biggest snowstorm in the history of this city,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters Sunday. “My message for New Yorkers is prepare for something worse than we have ever seen before.”
“This is going to be a big one, historic,” Moore said. “There could be paralyzing, crippling blizzard conditions.”
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., were already set for a messy Monday morning commute with up to 6 inches of snow expected overnight Sunday.
Moore said New England was “going to take a big hit, for sure” in Monday’s storm. He said the storm was going to intensify “into a monster” as it moved northeastward during Monday. “The combination of the slow movement and the snowfall could create blizzard-like or blizzard conditions,” Moore added.
New York City could see a foot of snow overnight Monday into Tuesday, while parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine will likely get double that, according to The Weather Channel. During the peak of the slow-moving system, snow could fall at 2 inches per hour and won’t stop until Wednesday in New England.
Massachusetts was also bracing for winds that could reach 70 mph in coastal areas, which, paired with the falling snow, will create whiteout conditions. “Travel may become impossible & life threatening,” the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency warned in a tweet.
The forecast came after millions of Americans across the Northeast awoke Saturday to a blanket of snow that was later doused with rain, leaving New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in a sloppy mess.
New Jersey State Police reported 126 traffic accidents, and a parking garage in Secaucus collapsed under the weight of the snow and a plow, police said. The plow’s driver suffered minor injuries in the accident, which created a hole that was 50 feet by 50 feet, NBC New York said.
A Nor’easter delivered more than 5 inches of snow in New York City, while residents of northern New York were digging out of as much as 9 inches, NBC New York reported. Saturday’s storm was the first significant snowfall in the New York area this winter. Scott Flath, general manager of Long Island Hardware in Bohemia, New York, said his store is well-stocked but that many of his customers are making their first winter supply runs of the season. He said they’re telling him, “I have no idea where my shovel for last year is.”
Courtesy of NBC News
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