two of to three inches of snow an hour and the heavy snow bands are pushing up central connecticut over long island, up toward boston and the cape and that s where we are expecting the possibility some will get two, two and a half feet of snow. in all notice in the white an advisory, where you get into the reddish color, the pinkish color is winter storm warning and along the coast, blizzard warnings, about 55 million people included. how much additional snow will you get? i said some reports of a foot on the jersey shore, another three to six inches long island and another 6 to 12 on top of the 12 inches you already have on the ground so areas like islip are 10 to 12 inches, probably end up close to 15 to 20. the highest totals will be the providence up toward boston. the national weather service in boston is calling for 24 to 30 inches of snow in boston. that would make it a top five all-time snowstorm and by the
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. borisjohnson is to speak to the russian president vladimir putin and visit eastern europe in the coming days, in an effort to resolve tensions over ukraine. russia has gathered 100,000 troops, tanks and missiles at the border with ukraine, but denies plans to invade. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet has more from kyiv. ukrainians have long lived with war. dozens of british soldiers here since 2015, not long after russia first invaded.
in areas. the sleet and freezing rain will not fall with this storm on the coast. that s all out to sea. that means this is all snowfall. so overnight tonight it moves north and it starts to crank. tomorrow it really feeds off these warm waters in the gulfstream, so it s going to create a bombing effect, almost like a hurricane. it will drop to a category 2 hurricane pressure. with that it s all snowfall. it s a one-day event, but we re going to see bands of snowfall that are more than 1 or 2 inches per hour, possibly 5 inches per hour. that s staggering. depends on where the snow bands form. you re going to see lightning, hear thundersnow. warning is in effect, but it s the ten states with the blizzard warnings. for a blizzard, you need winds of at least 35 miles per hour. they ll be stronger than that. that s going to cause a lot of issues, anderson. tom sater, thank you very much. breaking news to report in the u.s. response to a threat of
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. lots more on our website. borisjohnson is to speak to the russian president vladimir putin and visit eastern europe in the coming days, in an effort to resolve tensions over ukraine. russia has gathered 100,000 troops, tanks and missiles at the border with ukraine, but denies plans to invade. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet has more from kyiv.
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