Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. The cross-country storm had already affected swaths of the country, including New Mexico and parts of Texas, ABC News reported. Intense weather conditions triggered a tornado warning for parts of south-eastern Texas on Friday morning, but ended at 6.15am central time, the National Weather Service reported. Georgia, Mississippi and other states along the Gulf coast were expected to receive heavy rainfall and thunderstorms starting on Friday and into the weekend, AccuWeather reported. Washington DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia could see a dusting, while most substantial snowfall will be inland up the eastern seaboard. New York state’s Hudson valley area could get 2-4in of snow this weekend, CNN reported. The climate crisis is bringing milder, wetter winters to many parts amid global heating. It had been 690 days since the Big Apple picked up an inch or more of snow, local Fox 5 reported – a record stretch. New York City is expected to receive less than an inch of snow, after a snowless winter last year. Major east coast cities will probably face more rain than flurries.

Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut could see 6-12in of snow, the National Weather Service Boston reported.Ī winter storm watch was also in effect in parts of New Hampshire, where the incoming storm could bring 6in of snow, the Boston Globe reported, and more than 25 million Americans are under storm watches from the Carolinas up the east coast to Maine. The latest extreme weather comes as a major storm is predicted to bring heavy snow to northern states and intense rainfall along the Gulf coast.įorecasters have warned that the storm could deliver heavy snowfall to north-eastern and New England states, where some cities have not had substantial snow in recent times. Parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are also at risk of flooding from severe thunderstorms, with up to 5in of rain expected in some areas.

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