Tens of millions of Americans are getting hit in the face by brutal winter weather. On Monday, several East Coast cities were buried under more snow than they've seen in a single day in decades.
The frigid blast blanketed large swathes of the central United States with snow and ice, traveling from Kansas through Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, before reaching the East Coast on Sunday night.
More than 5.5 inches of snow fell in the Washington, D.C., area and continued to fall into Monday.
Maryland was particularly hard hit, with about 7 inches of snow falling in Annapolis as of Monday afternoon. It was the most snow the city has seen in a single day since 2000, when 16 inches of snow fell, according to Fox Weather.
Of course, snowfall in Maryland would be considered heavy snowfall in some areas, such as Oneida County in upstate New York. The town of Lee Center has been hit with more than 6 feet of white snow since the weekend. According to Utica Lifeguard Dispatch..
But cities in Delaware and southern New Jersey followed Annapolis with the highest daily accumulations in years, exceeding 9 inches in some places.
New York City and the rest of the tri-state area were spared the brunt of the storm, with only about a half-inch of snow falling in Central Park by midday, with no further accumulation expected after that.
Widespread storm conditions placed more than 60 million Americans under winter weather warnings across 2,100 miles, brought blizzard conditions with high winds and left about 300,000 people without power.
Road conditions remained hazardous throughout much of the storm's path.
Over the weekend, 600 cars were stuck in the snow in Missouri, and hundreds of accidents were reported in Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Virginia.
Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency on Monday, closing some interstates in Kansas that had received more than 14 inches of snow due to dangerous conditions.
“For people who don't need to be out on the streets, we're seeing too many shipwrecks, so I'm just saying, I'm asking you to stay indoors,” Beshear said.
More than 1,400 flights were canceled across the country on Monday, and nearly 1,000 were delayed due to the snow.
At Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., nearly two-thirds of all departures and half of all arrivals were canceled.
And more snow is possible this weekend, Fox Weather meteorologists told the Post.
The storm system is expected to develop over Texas around Thursday and then move northeast across the United States, although it is still unclear whether it will cross southern states or move further north toward the New York area. be.
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