the snow s and winter weather millions of folks in the eastern part of the country under winter weather a lurch. powerful storm is a barreling up the coast dumping rain, ice, snow in places like maryland, pennsylvania as you can see feeling the effects. add up with the very latest on where it is going and what we can expect free. finally some ski weather but a lot of folks good news about this it has been so long at some these errors since we have seen a really good snow. the temperatures play a really major story in all of this part if you live right up along the coast from boston, ultimately that will get cooler but new york, down to d.c. as you can tell the temperatures above freezing this has been a rain event so far for you it takes areas in the winter weather advisories are. just off the coast of the west of the i-95 corridor. will receive ultimately the heavy snow.
also with me, meteorologist angie lassman. talk about this snow is it nice, light fluffy snow or just really heavy, wet and miserable? heavy, wet and emphasis on the miserable, lindsey we re seeing this nor easter bulldoze through more than a dozen states today dumping rain, snow, wind gusts, some coastal regions could see wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour in albany, we saw the snow coming down at 2 inches an hour. it is really piled up. i want to show you the consistency of the snow because it is really quite notable this is heavy, wet snow. that s because the temperatures are hovering around freezing what happens when we get heavy snow, it can break tree branches, it can topple power lines. we re seeing widespread outages already. just in the last couple of hours we have seen the number of people without power more than triple now, more than 240,000
hurricane ian was. it came into florida as a category 4 storm. bringing with it, destructive winds, record rainfall, and storm surges. when you have a hurricane it is a massive hurricane coming in at 155 miles an hour, producing this type of storm surge, dumping rain, causing flooding. if you can make it through that, the probably did it pretty good. this is a 24/7 effort to stabilize and to restore. that was from a both above and below. very quickly, we got people out of the icu. the problem then was that the water went down the stairwell. saw scenes of flooding all over central order. residents say they had never seen the water ride so fast the rain was unrelenting for hours.
this is don lemon tonight, you re watching our coverage of in, making its way up the florida peninsula. we have all the news coverage this evening, it is dumping rain on this entire area. lots of water. but also the wind, pushing the wind all across the state of florida. our crews are out in the field, we re covering it all for you. we ve got bill weir, bill is joining us from punta gorda florida, also brian todd is in is in derek van damme is in breaking tin for us. i want to other meteorologist, our expert, mr. tom seders in the weather center. tom, i am getting so much rain, lots of rain that have been dumped on me for the last hour. and it seemed to come in on cue, we re watching the radar, the rain came right in. it s just sitting on top of us, not going anywhere. in fact that northern periphery of the storm system
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