We have already seen impactful weather for the west coast the past few weeks, and of course the nor easter took us until march to receive that. let s start there where we have heavy snow draped across much of the area, and boston dealing with heavy rain right now but that will transition over to heavy snow we are going to be talking about a couple inches there. 20 million people included in the winter alerts in the northeast. can you see why. the wind gusts, 40 to 50 miles per hour causing coastal erosion and coastal flooding when you mention the heavy wet snow, downed power lines and branches and trees are all on the table as we go through the next day or so as far as snow is concerned, it will be heavy and wet and we will see snowfall rates anywhere from two to three inches throughout the day and more impressive amounts for
Cold, wet, miserable rain this morning, but now that it s transitioned over we re getting about 2 to 3 inches an hour and it s picking up in intensity. you can literally squeeze the rain drops out of this. i want to give you a perspective of where we ve been at all morning. the crews here at the salt barn for worcester county are working overtime filling up the salt trucks as well as the roadway clearing machines that just doing their best efforts to try to keep up with these impressive snowfall rates, but as heavy as this snow is, we re going to start seeing the winds pick up. remember, some of the trees starting to bud here, so we re going to get that snow load that is going to make the potential for the combination of wind and snow to bring down tree limbs, power outages are going to spike, you ve mentioned over 200,000 customers without power. i want you to get to the radar quickly because i want to show you how hair pin precision the forecast for this is. right along the coastline
How much snow are we talking about? we re looking 259 feet of snow in the higher terrains where you see the pinks and purples. those are the highest amounts. we could see snowfall rates of 1 to 3 inches per hour we have a lot of moisture and cold air in place and winds whipping intense gusts. strongest story on the day on tuesday. we ll see the strong winds still throughout new england on wednesday. these are the snowfall totals. we re looking at 1-inch in new york city. 12 to 14 inches in syracuse. thank you very much we ll keep an eye on the storm as it arrives. still ahead on way too early, the little fissures emerging we ll have more on the countries slowly cracking apart. that s when we come right back like here. and here. and here.
Like a winter wonderland here. two feet of snow building behind me and we re expecting so much for as you see how quickly that snow is falling here. you re seeing and hearing the plows trying to make a dent, but the snowfall rates are definitely challenging things here creating travel headaches across the region. more than 115,000 customers in the golden state, across the golden state without power. meanwhile, major freeways like i-5 and the grapevine remain closed. snowy conditions there, no word on when that will reopen and other issues, lower elevation levels. l.a. seeing major flooding there. some people had to be rescued. one man last lost his life driving into a flood canal. this is definitely something impacting much of california for the last several days. the blizzard warning remains in effect through this afternoon. aishah: all right, nicole valdez live for us. thank you, nicole, stay warm.