STORM JONAS: 76 MILLION told to be home by 3pm as MONSTER SNOW STORM hits USA

Friday, January 22, 2016
By Paul Martin

A MASSIVE winter snow storm is making its way towards the East Coast of America ready to dump up to 29 inches of snow causing more than $1BILLION in damage.

By KATIE MANSFIELD
Express.co.uk
Fri, Jan 22, 2016

Blizzards are expected across the area as the National Weather Service described the storm as “potentially crippling” for a huge swathe of the country, with near-record snowfall in the Baltimore and Washington DC metro areas.

The National Weather Service predicted the nation’s capital, Washington DC could get as much as 29 inches of snow by the time the storm ends Sunday beating the famous January 1922 Knickerbocker blizzard.

A blizzard watch was issued for New York City and parts of Long Island and New Jersey starting on Saturday. Forecasters said up to 16 inches of snow would be expected.

The director of the National Weather Service Louis Uccellini said all the ingredients have come together to create blizzards with brutally high winds, dangerous inland flooding, white-out conditions and even the possibility of thunder snow, when lightning strikes through a snowstorm.

He said the storm could easily cause more than $1billion in damage and paralyse the East Coast.

Mr Uccellini said: “It does have the potential to be an extremely dangerous storm that can affect more than 50 million people.

“Washington looks like the bull’s-eye of the blizzard, and New York City is just inside the slow-moving storm’s sharp northern edge, which means it is likely to see heavy accumulations.”

Yesterday, thousands of flights were cancelled or delayed and residents stocked up on food and supplies as five states declared emergencies braced for the storm.

Millions of residents in the storm’s path in Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania scrambled to prepare for the storm, clearing shop shelves of bread, milk and bottled water, food and other supplies.

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