this. all right. senator ben cardin, always a pleasure. thanks so much. thank you. a brutal blast of icy weather is spreading eastward, and by tonight, philadelphia, boston, and even new york could see icy snow on the ground. officials in virginia preparing for what they call an historic ice event. yikes. the weather channel s mike seidel is in leesburg, virginia. mike, it s really coming down. it looks bad out there. reporter: yes, it s really nice though, alex. good to be with you this afternoon. it s a dry, powdery snow. getting it off the car is no work at all. this is easy because the temperature is at 27 degrees. look at the roadway here. they did treat this earlier. when we got out here at 7:00, there wasn t a flake on the ground. it s just been dumping over the past couple of hours. they treated it, but with this kind of snowfall rate at this temperature, it sticks. it s being packed down by cars. here s the issue. temperatures up in the clouds where this stuff starts a
one-day event and it s really just tomorrow. in washington you can see the heaviest, which is white. in roanoke to richmond, i had much i-81 may see the heaviest accumulation. ov overnight tomorrow night into monday may see snow. that s the biggest difference between this ice event and yesterday s, temperatures have been holding so cold. that will not be the case along the eastern sea board. by monday everybody will be in the 40s so whatever ice there is will melt. the watch starts in the morning by 11:00 or 12. snow and sleet to start. by the afternoon and evening, changing over to freezing rain and sleet. on the haul maybe one to two inches of snow, a quarter of
to come up from the south. we always fight that battle, but the ice event starts right through here, in missouri, arkansas, oklahoma, and yes, dallas, dallas 80 today, ice storm tomorrow. it was 80 degrees today when the dallas metro national weather service issued a winter storm warning. it was 80 when they made that call to issue is the warning. millions of people through this pink area, including memphis and paducah, all without power. millions without power by late tomorrow night, even into wednesday. yes, wolf, there s another system behind this one that, in fact because of the jet stream stays really in the same place. it s a big dip down through here, back up through here. another storm could on sunday. with ice for you. bad news that it s d.c. you and i lived in buffalo. we know how to deal with snow
oklahoma. now it s in the east and the south. when and where do you expect the worst? it is doing exactly what we thought. and very few storms ever do that. it is getting colder as the sun sets and now our map is filling in with this pink which is essentially an icestorm. it is sleet, rain, 31 degrees. it is ugly out there. we re talking, that s catskills. this is binghamton. that s almost bergen county, new jersey. and all of central pennsylvania getting covered with ice and it is only 7:00. we have hours to go before the sun rises and it warms back up again. this entire area will be an icy mess by morning. so buffalo, pittsburgh, central pennsylvania, down into west virginia, even here toward hagerstown picking up some ice. that is where it will be the worst tonight. now tomorrow, the winds start to blow and airports, this will be an ice event for planes on the ground. we can see cancellations because
sets, and now our map is filling in with this pink, which is essentially an ice storm. it s sleet, it s rain, it s 31 degrees. it s ugly out there. we re talking that s catskills binghamton and all of central pennsylvania getting covered with ice at this hour. it s only 7:00. we have hours to go before the sun rises and it warms back up again. this entire area will be an icy mess by morning. so buffalo, central pennsylvania into west virginia, even here toward hagers town picking up ice at this point. that s where it s going to be the worst tonight. tomorrow the winds start to blow and airports are going to be this is going to be an ice event for planes already on the ground. we could see cancellations because of this, erin. we re already seeing this is what the flight board looks like right now from laguardia. a shuttle going to indianapolis delayed. american airlines to cleveland delayed. supposed to go out at 9:17. express jet to montreal delayed.