The federal government in Washington, DC, was closed Monday, and weather-related disruptions are being felt across the country. Many schools have canceled classes, and the hundreds of thousands of …
January 3, 2022 at 6:04 p.m.The nation’s capital and surrounding regions received record-breaking snow Monday as a strong storm system works its way across the eastern US.
The Federal Aviation Administration extended a ground stop for Reagan National Airport to 5 p.m., but the FAA has since lifted the ground stop. A ground stop earlier placed on Baltimore/Washington International Airport was lifted early Monday afternoon.New York City began salting streets Sunday evening in anticipation of 1 to 3 inches of snow during the morning commute, mayor Eric Adams said.
Southwestern New Jersey received between 1 and 4 inches of snow, while the southeastern part of the state got somewhere between 6 to 11 inches, Murphy said. State officials said that as of 4:30 p.m. Monday, there were a little over 3,300 outages in the state, but approximately 1,800 of those originated from a car crash.
Interstate 95 near Fredericksburg, just north of Richmond, was stopped northbound and southbound due to tractor trailer crashes, according to CNN affiliate WTVR-TV, which cited the Virginia Department of Transportation . The National Weather Service expects snow to taper off and the entire storm system to move offshore by early evening.“There are trees down all over the county, particularly here in Townsend, because we are right at the foothills of the Great Smoky National Park,” Blount County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Marian O’Briant said. “There are a lot of trees; it was kind of a wet heavy snow, so trees are still falling right now.
The snow should taper off from the west. Slippery roads and black ice conditions could persist or redevelop well into Tuesday morning.
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