A huge storm covered some parts of the Northeast with up to seven inches of snow and forested areas to the south, heavy rain and deadly flooding, wind energy from Georgia to New England continued through Monday.
Blackouts, falling trees and dangerous road conditions can ruin daily life and disrupt travel plans.
Sunday’s wind race brought gusts or gusts beyond hurricane power, including 76 mph gusts at Camp David, about 1,841 feet in the Catoctin Range in Frederick County, northern Maryland, according to the Weather Bureau. Continuous hurricane winds start at 74 mph
According to the Weather Bureau, 71 mph winds were recorded at Atlantic City International Airport. At Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, wind records up to 65 mph, said Connor Belak, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
A woman died in Philadelphia after a tree fell on her car Sunday night, the Philadelphia Police Department said.
According to PowerOutage.us, strong winds caused a large number of power outages in most of the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, which tracked outages in real time.
At Kennedy International Airport in New York, Sunday’s winds will delay 200 flights, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The wind also caused delays at LaGuardia International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, as well as Ronald Reagan International Airport and Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., the FAA said.
In parts of the Allegheny Mountains, spanning Virginia and West Virginia and extending to Maryland and Pennsylvania, the snowstorm warning takes effect until 3 p.m. Monday.
In many parts of the Northeast, snow will turn into sleet and frozen rain until Sunday night, ice accumulates as much as a quarter of an inch.
Washington may record rainfall on Sunday, with thunderstorms, heavy rain and a top speed of 60 mph
“We’re also going to see a considerable temperature swing, from the mid-60s to the 30s to the whole night,” Barack said.
Snow fell Saturday night in parts of Connecticut, including Fairfield and Middlesex counties. Areas across Massachusetts and Rhode Island have two to five inches of snowfall through Sunday morning Up to seven inches landed in northern Massachusetts.
On Saturday, the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys and the lower Mississippi Valley were pouring in the warm, unusual surging of the water of spring water — triggering rumbling rainfall that turned the road into a river and made a mess, causing a mess.
Some of the worst floods occurred in northwestern Tennessee and central Kentucky. At least 10 people died in bad weather in the southern states.
By Monday morning, the storm is expected to be concentrated in Maine and Southeast Canada, before drifting the Northeast into the Atlantic Ocean.
The storm is dragging a lot of cold Arctic air from Canada into the Great Plains and pulling it into the southern and central United States. The Weather Forecast Center said some locations may record the lowest temperatures in winter so far.
The cold will set the stage for the next winter storm, which is expected to hit the central plains on Wednesday night to the Atlantic Ocean and Thursday northeast, although details remain uncertain.
Johnny Diaz,,,,, Nazaneen Ghaffar and Alexandra E. Petri Contribution report.
