Nor’easter Could Bring Wind, Heavy Snow, Power Failures, and Travel Chaos in 7 States

A late-winter nor’easter is barreling towards the upper I-95 corridor and could bring heavy snow, strong winds, power failures, and travel chaos to seven states, forecasters say.
New York City will be spared the worst of the storm, they added.
Elsewhere, the wet, heavy snow, combined with wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour (96.5 km/h) will bring with it flight delays and cancellations and could bring down tree branches and power lines, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses before the storm moves offshore on Wednesday, the authorities said.
A coastal storm is expected to develop in the region Monday night and become a nor’easter overnight, the National Weather Service said.
“A coastal low pressure will strengthen rapidly into a major Nor’easter that significantly impacts the Northeast this evening through Wednesday with areas of heavy snow, strong winds, coastal flooding, and beach erosion,” the NWS added.
Several governors, including New York’s Kathy Hochul, declared a state of emergency ahead of the nor’easter.
The storm could bring over a foot (30 cm) of the white stuff to the Catskills and southern Adirondacks in New York, the Berkshires and Worcester hills in Massachusetts, the Monadnocks and White Mountains in New Hampshire, and the southern Green Mountains in Vermont, the agency said.
In some areas of Maine, northwestern Connecticut, and northeastern Pennsylvania as well as Sussex County in New Jersey, up to two feet (60 cm) of snow is possible.
Forecasters said that New York City won’t see more than an inch (2.5 cm) of snow, although that is subject to change based on the trajectory of the storm.
.Meanwhile, another major winter storm is set to move across California late today through Wednesday bringing “areas of heavy rain and snowmelt producing flooding, high winds, and mountain snow,” the NWS announced.
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