- I'm Jason Samenow with the Capital Weather Gang
here with a briefing on the blockbuster winter storm
expected to move up the East Coast Friday night
into Saturday.
We have winter weather alerts in effect
for over 75 million people.
We have blizzard warnings all the way from coastal
Maryland and Delaware, up the coast to Atlantic City
and then into eastern Long Island,
into Providence, Boston, Eastern Maine.
Some of those areas in Eastern New England
could see two feet of snow along with wind gusts
over 50 miles per hour.
White-out conditions, extremely heavy snowfall
during the day on Saturday.
Farther south, even places like Ocean City, Maryland,
Atlantic City, they could see a foot of snow as well.
New York City, on the western edge of the heavy snow,
maybe about 6 inches there, but it will be windy
and they'll have some limited visibility
and difficult conditions as well there on Saturday morning.
Further north, again, in Boston, Providence,
Portland, those are the areas which will be hardest hit
with a serious blow of heavy snowfall and wind.
Also flooding along the coast
as the storm pushes water inland.
Maybe a storm surge of up to 2-3 feet
causing some coastal flooding.
Power outages also possible along the coast,
along Cape Cod, Eastern Massachusetts,
maybe Eastern Rhode Island as well.
With those fast wind gusts,
this storm will be rather fast-moving
so we do expect it to move out of the region
by sometime late Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Now, if you're further inland than places like Washington
and Baltimore, maybe just 2 or 3 inches there.
Also places like Virginia Beach, Richmond.
And then, as you get farther west into interior New England,
not as much snow there either.
But still several inches in many locations.
This could be a historic snow storm in Boston
with those amounts up to 2 feet.
Could rank in the top five of any snow storm on record there.
With the expected snowfall rates of 2,
3, 4 inches an hour, in some areas,
combined with those very strong winds and blizzard conditions,
travel will be difficult or impossible.
And officials are encouraging people to not travel
unless it's an emergency.
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