I am Chris Mckinnon we made it to the end of the week but a state of emergency in five states and washington, d. C. As the weekend storm noreaster gets going. Thousands of flights are canceled and mass transit is set to shut down tonight. The federal government closing offices at noon and nonemergency workers are being told to stay home. Danielle has been tracking this for us all week long including the impact here at home in massachusetts. Hey danielle. You guys as a meteorologist looking at this satellite and radar picture, you geek out a little bit because look at the snow expanding on the northern side of the storm. This is an oppressive shot. We have thunderstorms down across the florida panhandle. We have got snow and ice expanding across North Carolina and now coming into virginia and this is our storm. Its going redevelop off the carolina coastline. And move in our direction by the time we get to tomorrow. What does it mean is in the mid atlantic will get blasted. Major travel
Expected to be hundreds more. Many airline trying to give travellers a chance to reschedule and some are allowing customers to do without change fees. Those are all over the country including philadelphia. Raleigh, durham and atlanta. American airlines has cancelled all flights in charlotte and will cancel all flights in washington and baltimore saturday. United will start suspending in d. C. This afternoon. For more on this heres meteorologist chris lambert. Snow. Expecting at least two feet of baltimore. Atlantic. Right here in southern new england were on the Northern Edge of that storm from saturday morning into early sunday morning. Winter storm posted for the cape and island. To the south coast of southern new england here. Here. Tomorrow afternoon through sunday morning through the island. Nantucket and the vineyard. Right here taking shape. Lit work toward the coast lane and become a formidable storm and throw moisture into the mid atlantic. Right on that Northern Edge very sha
Released. Let s get a breakdown on any changes from chief meteorologist mike haddad. Mike what are getting closer and closer to where the storm exit closest run at New Hampshire about 48 hour s now. Now the computer models are split. The majority of them drive just about all the snow south of New Hampshire. Having said that, a couple of higher resolution models and the data is coming entrenched in these models, are bringing some of the snow a little farther to the north so it does bear watching. We never lock in the track and say it is 100 resent guaranteed, but it continues to drill heavy rain over the deep south. Snow here is the snow cast into saturday afternoon, two feet plus in parts of the midatlantic region. When you have a storm that massive, it only takes a wobble of about 50100 miles and you get into that heavier snow. Not calling for that right now but we could see light accumulation. We will break downwind, how much and the weekend forecast in a few minutes. Tom the Nationa
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The afc championship game in about 90 minutes. Airlines already canceling flights into the winter storm bearing down on the midatlantic. We begin this new with cindy and re still kind of right on the edge. ; cindy more than 20 states of the storm. We are just on the Northern Edge of this. We do, however, have a winter storm watch for the extreme south coast of new england including coastal connecticut, rhode island, and also massachusetts, including the cape and massachusetts. This goes in Effect Tomorrow and is in effect through sunday re just on the Northern Edge of this no. The heaviest targeting the north Atlantic States where they will heaviest targeting new york are just writing the edge ridng the edge riding the it s not quite into washington, d. C. , yet, but it will be as we go through the next few hours. The storm is going to work its way through the coast and start to develop. It shore with strong wind, blizzard conditions from new york city, still that down to d. C. , and t