Overview
- Roughly 35 million people from Maryland to New Hampshire are under blizzard warnings, including New York City, Long Island, southern Connecticut, and coastal New Jersey and Delaware, with 1 to 2 feet of snow forecast.
- Snow began filtering into parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday morning, with the heaviest, wind-driven bands expected Sunday night into Monday morning before tapering by Monday afternoon.
- National Weather Service guidance warns of 25 to 35 mph winds with higher gusts that could drop visibility to near zero, make travel dangerous or impossible, and bring scattered power outages.
- Coastal flooding alerts are in effect for vulnerable shoreline communities, with forecasters cautioning about high tides, onshore winds, and inundation risks from New Jersey to New England.
- Air travel is already severely disrupted with more than 3,000 flight cancellations and widespread delays, while New York and New Jersey have declared emergencies and New York City leaders urge residents to stay off roads.