Overview
- The National Weather Service warned an explosively intensifying coastal low is delivering heavy snow, high winds and possible blizzard conditions across the Carolinas.
- Snow totals reached about 37 cm in North Carolina, 32 cm in Virginia and more than 23 cm in Tennessee, while Davis, West Virginia, fell to −33°C as freezing temperatures extended into Florida.
- Orlando dropped to −4°C on Sunday, the city’s lowest February reading in more than a century, as rare Southern cold accompanied the coastal snowfall.
- Air travel was heavily disrupted with more than 1,800 flights canceled at Charlotte across Saturday and Sunday and over 600 cancellations at Atlanta on Saturday, with additional early Sunday scrubs.
- Roughly 156,000 customers remained without electricity on Sunday in the South as officials opened shelters, deployed the National Guard in Mississippi and closed parts of North Carolina’s Outer Banks; North Carolina authorities logged about 750 crashes and the governor reported two fatalities.