Overview
- More than 45 million people are under winter weather alerts and nearly 5 million under winter storm warnings across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, according to the National Weather Service.
- National Weather Service guidance calls for more than 6 inches north and west of I-95 with localized totals near or above a foot in higher terrain from the Poconos into eastern Maine.
- New Jersey’s governor activated a state of emergency at 5 a.m. for several northwestern counties to mobilize resources for heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain.
- New York City and the immediate coast are largely seeing rain, while inland areas of northern New Jersey, the Hudson Valley and interior New England pick up several inches with pockets of icing in the central and southern Appalachians.
- NWS offices upgraded advisories to winter storm warnings in parts of New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine, with officials urging drivers to delay nonessential travel as the system exits late Tuesday and refreezing becomes a concern.