A sprawling winter storm ripping across the country is expected to slam the Northeast today. Power outages so far this morning: • 131k in Tennessee, mainly in Memphis • 85k in Ohio • 29k in West Virginia • 33k in Pennsylvania • 39k in New York
The storm will bring with it temperatures ranging between 15 to 30 degrees below average from the Southern Plains to the Ohio Valley, per NWS.
Over 6 inches of snow is expected in eastern Maine on Friday, while parts of central Massachusetts could see a quarter inch of ice. The NWS said even the northern Mid-Atlantic could receive as much as a tenth of an inch of ice accumulation. A tweet previously embedded here has been deleted or was tweeted from an account that has been suspended or deleted.More than 85,000 others in Ohio, nearly 29,000 in West Virginia, 33,000 in Pennsylvania and 39,000 in New York had no electricity.
Traffic on I-10 near Kerrville, Texas, was backed up for miles for multiple hours in below-freezing temperatures Friday morning because of icy road conditions and a wrecked 18-wheeler blocking a section of the interstate, according toThursday was one of the worst days for air travel this year, with some 4,700 U.S. flights canceled.
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