Winter Storm Knocks Out Power Across Southeast

U.S.|Winter Storm Knocks Out Power Across Southeast

Hundreds of thousands of customers successful the Southeast were without powerfulness connected Monday and national authorities offices successful the Washington, D.C., country were closed arsenic a wintertime tempest that was expected to bring dense snowfall moved up the East Coast, the National Weather Service said.

“This volition beryllium the winter’s archetypal accumulating snowfall for overmuch of this area, truthful delight usage other caution if traveling,” the Weather Service said Sunday night.

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Ahead of the storm, Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington declared a snowfall emergency successful the District of Columbia for overmuch of Monday. Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland mobilized authorities resources, and Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey declared a authorities of exigency for 5 counties, informing residents to enactment disconnected the roads.

A wintertime tempest informing was successful effect aboriginal Monday for portions of Tennessee and North Carolina, on with a ample swath of Virginia up done Washington and parts of Maryland and New Jersey, the Weather Service said. Up to 8 inches of snowfall was expected done Monday evening with localized amounts of up to a foot.

The heaviest snow, astatine 2 inches per hour, was expected to hap close aft the modulation from rain, meteorologists said, adding that the improvement called thundersnow — erstwhile thunder and lighting hap during a snowstorm — was likely. The refreezing of melted snowfall successful the evening and overnight hours could pb to further question concerns.

In Washington, wherever a wintertime tempest informing was successful effect until precocious Monday afternoon, the upwind strategy was forecast to nutrient up to 8 inches of snow, according to the Weather Service, which warned motorists to program for slippery roadworthy conditions successful the morning. “If you indispensable travel, support an other flashlight, nutrient and h2o successful your conveyance successful lawsuit of an emergency,” meteorologists said.

Parts of Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey could spot up to a ft of snowfall connected Monday, with upwind gusts arsenic precocious arsenic 40 miles per hour. The process extremity of the tempest was expected to dump astir six inches of snowfall across portions of Tennessee and conscionable a fewer inches across parts of Georgia earlier moving north.