accumulate on the roadways there right within this popular tourist destination. pe people milling about, taking photos. we haven t seen snow in quite sometime. there have been reports of 1 to 2 inches of snow per hour, and that is pretty significant considering you ve got one of the busiest corridors here, i-95, stretching from d.c. through philadelphia to new york city all the way to boston, and that is where the heaviest of snowfall is setting up as we speak. let s zoom right into new york city, take you in, and you can see, of course, the shades of blue indicating our heaviest snow bands moving through. that is impacting portions of western long island into the coastal areas of new jersey, stretching towards connecticut and into rhode island and eventually into massachusetts as well. that that s where we anticipate the heaviest snowfall. in and around boston that is where the snow will hang around longest. the limiting factor today will be the quick-moving nature of this particular
ashley baylor is a meteorologist for wtnh in connecticut, earlier she pinpointed what state the blizzard is currently in. we are still dealing with this storm. we have been tracking some bands of very heavy snow for several hours, especially in eastern sections of our state and since we are talking about that fine snow, it piles up very easily but when you factor in these heavy snow bands with winds that are blowing between 50 and 80 kilometres per hour, it causes blowing and drifting snow, so that contributes to poor visibility, poor conditions on the roads, so we have seen roads that are absolutely snow covered. it is a tough task for our clean up crews, our ploughs to actually keep up with this storm because this has been going on since about nine o clock last night. so this is almost a solid 24 hour storm force. it s very difficult to keep up with mother nature in these conditions. the report by civil servant sue gray into lockdown parties
the cold air is in place. it won t transition to snow which we see sometimes. it will stay all snow and that s why we think the snowfall totals will teeter. 75 million americans from alabama to maine under a winter weather alert being impacted but focussing in on the blizzard warnings along the coastal area of massachusetts, maine into connecticut, long island, too, by the way. not including new york city you re under a winter storm warning but coastal new jersey and the delmar peninsula we could have reduced visibility, whiteout conditions for three hours or greater with the peak intensity. look at the snow band starting to over spread new york city, long island, connecticut and rhode island. you can see the i-95 corridor already starting to get into some of the heaviest snow bands. flakes flying in boston. this is just the beginning. the snow will pick up in intensity overnight and start to maximize that strong part of the storm through the middle part of the day tomorrow and again,
cold air, that is going to play a role later on as well. light snow with this. this is all you are going to get in areas of del mar. the sleet and freezing rain will not fall with this storm on the coast. that is all out to sea. that means, anderson, this is all snowfall. so overnight tonight, it moves north and starts to crank. tomorrow, it really feeds off these warm waters in the gulf stream. warmer than they should be so it is going to create this bombing effect. have that pressure drop almost like a hurricane. in fact, it will drop to category 2 hurricane pressure. with that, it is all snowfall and again a one-day event but we are going to see bands of snowfall that are more than 1 to 2 inch ans hour, we are talking possibly 5 inches an hour. that is staggering. so it really depends where these snow bands kind of form. and they are convective snow bands. that means you are going to see lightning, hear thunder, thundersnow. it s these ten states with blizzard warnings. winds up to
could have reduced visibility, whiteout conditions for three hours or greater with the peak intensity. look at the snow band starting to over spread new york city, long island, connecticut and rhode island. you can see the i-95 corridor already starting to get into some of the heaviest snow bands. flakes flying in boston. this is just the beginning. the snow will pick up in intensity overnight and start to maximize that strong part of the storm through the middle part of the day tomorrow and again, we re talking about the potential of some historic numbers here, don. oh, boy, derrick. thank you. [ laughter ] i guess. thanks, derrick. 75 million people, that s a lot of folks. we ll check back in with derrick, as needed. i want to turn to the other top headlines tonight with kirsten powers and mark mckinnon, the former advisor to george w. bush and john mccain and director of the circus. see if you can top that, 75 million people in the path of a bomb cyclone. you guys are the bomb