you hear thunder and hear the burst of snow. these winter advisory will expire in an hour or so. watch out for icy roads and into the overnight hours. look how cold it is right now in tennessee and alabama. the temperatures drop down to below freezing and even colder in the mountains of north carolina where they had substantial snow about 16 degrees at this hour. it's icy and very, very treacherous. the totals are incredible. up to 18 inches, maybe 20 inches-plus on our legend, and that's for parts of new jersey into maryland. overnight tonight, and the warnings in the northeast in new england go straight through tomorrow. we'll talk about this nor'easter tomorrow, too. >> that threatening to compete with the big storm last year when washington, d.c. and philadelphia experienced upwards of two feet of snow. winters are getting brulgttal earlier than usual.