The storm will also cause near-hurricane force wind gusts and major coastal flooding.
The storm that slammed California with up to 15 inches of rain and more than 100 inches of snow before a foot of snow on the Midwest is now hitting the Northeast. And, as it did in California, the system will stall out, burying cities of the Northeast under their biggest snowfall in years. The storm was impacting just shy of 80 million people Monday morning, with advisories and warnings posted from Tennessee to Maine, CBS weather producer David Parkinson reports. Officials in Philadelphia issued a “snow emergency” while New York City and New Jersey have declared a state of emergency on Sunday night. It had dropped over a foot of snow outside Chicago and 3-4 inches on Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Parkinson said. The bulk of the storm will take through the afternoon into the evening, Parkinson forecast, with occasional snowfall rates of 2 inches per hour. When all is said and done, Philadelphia will likely have just short of a foot of snow, with 14-16 inches in New York and up to two feet in nearby regions of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and upstate New York, such as the Poconos, Lehigh Valley, Orange County, New York and the Catskills. Blizzard conditions seemed highly unlikely, Parkinson added, but visibility will be extremely poor at times as winds gust above 30 mph.
