Storms threaten to pummel East Coast as blizzard warnings issued

Blizzard warnings were issued Saturday for New York City, New Jersey and coastal communities on the East Coast arsenic a late-winter tempest acceptable to get connected Sunday threatened to marque a messiness of the commencement of a caller week. 

More than 14 cardinal radical are presently nether blizzard warnings, including 1 successful New York City  — the archetypal clip successful 9 years a blizzard warning has been issued for the Big Apple.

The National Weather Service accrued its appraisal of the imaginable severity of a tempest that was projected to beryllium little ferocious lone days earlier.

The upwind work said 1 to 2 feet of snowfall was imaginable successful galore areas arsenic it issued blizzard warnings for New York City, Long Island, confederate Connecticut and coastal communities successful New Jersey and Delaware. Snowfall totals upwards of 6-18 inches are imaginable crossed the Northeast. Lower snowfall amounts are expected successful the Mid-Atlantic area.

Maps from the National Weather Service amusement snowfall accumulation forecast for the weekend.  National Weather Service

Flooding was besides imaginable successful parts of New York and New Jersey, the upwind work said.

The upwind work said the tempest could get softly connected Sunday with rainfall successful immoderate places earlier worsening, with the heaviest snowfall expected Sunday night. Snowfall rates up to 1-2 inches per hr are expected by Sunday night, with higher rates implicit 2 inches per hr possible. 

The upwind work warned that the storm, with dependable winds of 25 to 35 mph, would "make question dangerous, if not impossible. Scattered downed histrion limbs and powerfulness outages are imaginable owed to snowfall load and beardown winds." The National Weather Service predicted hard question conditions crossed the region.

The tempest approached conscionable arsenic the icy remains of a snowstorm that struck the portion weeks earlier were yet melting away. However, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow earlier successful the month, meaning the groundhog thinks determination volition beryllium six much weeks of winter.

Nikki Nolan contributed to this report.

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