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A almighty wintertime tempest strategy that has lasted for implicit a week has now spawned a nor'easter threatening parts of Maine with up to 2 feet of snowfall Saturday.
Winter weather warnings are successful effect done Saturday successful parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York with gusty winds and dense snow, according to the National Weather Service. The portion whitethorn spot snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour, unsafe question conditions and scattered powerfulness outages Saturday, the upwind work said.
Friday, implicit 5 million radical successful the Northeast United States faced winter tempest warnings while blizzard conditions slammed the precocious Midwest.
Forecasters predicted dense snowfall would impact parts of the Northeast into the weekend, and well-below-average temperatures could participate the north-central U.S. by Sunday.
Meanwhile, the South continued to measure harm aft dozens of tornadoes killed astatine slightest 3 people.
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Up to 48 inches of snowfall recorded successful Dakotas
In Cheyenne Crossing, South Dakota, 48-hour snowfall amounts reached 48 inches by Friday, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Alex DaSilva, who said the storm produced between 8 to 16 inches of snowfall crossed the Dakotas and Minnesota. AccuWeather experts expected snowfall to go progressively scattered passim Friday.
While conditions implicit the Dakotas and Northern Plains are expected to amended drastically into Saturday, the wintertime tempest could origin concerns for lake-effect snowfall into the play arsenic it pushes eastward into the Great Lakes, according to DaSilva.
Ice, snowfall deed Northeast
Snow and icy conditions pounded the Northeast Friday, erstwhile wintertime tempest warnings extended from northeastern Pennsylvania done upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and a portion of occidental Massachusetts.
The storm, which brought freezing rainfall to confederate Pennsylvania and Maryland, besides deed the Virginias with up to a fractional an inch of crystal successful immoderate areas and triggered question disruptions successful the area, DaSilva said. The Virginia Department of Transportation warned drivers to drive with caution Friday arsenic debased temperatures could refreeze bedewed roads.
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"Freezing rainfall did debar the large metropolis areas, but it's going to beryllium an all-snow lawsuit chiefly up crossed bluish New England from the Green and White mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire and the Adirondacks successful New York," DaSilva said.
South assesses damage after 40 confirmed tornadoes successful 3 days
While frigid conditions impacted the bluish U.S., cleanup crossed the South continued Friday aft dozens of tornadoes near a way of demolition from Texas to Florida and killed 3 radical successful Louisiana – including an 8-year-old lad and his mother.
"Those tornadoes that roared across the South were associated with a acold beforehand that was attached to the the blizzard up successful the Midwest," DaSilva said.
At slightest 40 confirmed tornadoes touched down betwixt Dec. 13-15, The Weather Channel reported, including 16 tornadoes rated arsenic EF2 connected the Enhanced Fujita scale.
EF2s tin scope upwind speeds of 135 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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