A powerful winter storm is moving from the Central Plains to the East Coast, bringing heavy snow, ice, and freezing rain. Blizzard conditions are expected in parts of Missouri and Kansas, while significant snowfall and icing are anticipated across the mid-Atlantic region. The storm is causing hazardous travel conditions and power outages.
A major winter storm is bringing ice, snow and freezing rain from the Plains to the East Coast through Tuesday. The storm moves from the Central Plains into the mid-Atlantic, where parts of the Washington, D.C., area could receive up to a foot of snow through Tuesday morning.Heavy snowfall and wind gusts more than 40 miles per hour will lead to blizzard conditions across parts of Missouri and Kansas, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
The snow will significantly reduce visibilities, and snowfall amounts will surpass 15 inches (the heaviest in a decade), which will make travel extremely hazardous, with impassable roads, the NWS says. Additionally, a band of 8-14 inches of snow is expected to extend from northeast Missouri through the Central Appalachians, with a few inches of sleet likely in southern Illinois and Indiana. The storm will also bring a quarter to a half inch of freezing rain over states in the middle Mississippi/Ohio Valley region such as Illinois, Indiana and Missouri starting Sunday. Through Monday, there will also be significant icing/freezing rain across central Kansas through parts of the Central Appalachians that will lead to dangerous travel conditions, widespread tree damage, and prolonged power outages, the NWS says. Snow, sometimes moderate to heavy, on Monday will move from southern Illinois into the mid-Atlantic region where areas surrounding Washington, D.C., and Baltimore could receive up to 12 inches of snow and ice accumulations up to two tenths of an inch. The storm is also disrupting travel and leading to impassable roads and car crashes because of deteriorating conditions. Across Kansas there have been at least 212 calls of service where troopers were responding somewhere to help someone between 6:00 a.m. Saturday and midnight Sunday morning, according to Trooper Ben Gardner, public information officer for the Kansas Highway Patrol, who goes by Trooper Ben
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