Big Winter Storm Moves Toward Mid-Atlantic, Northeast
Much of the mid-Atlantic region was put under a winter storm warning Friday as officials predicted up that up to 18 inches of snow would fall in some places this weekend.
The National Weather Service predicted that snow would affect travel along Interstates 81 and 95 in the mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast, Bloomberg reported.
The storm dumped more than a foot of rain in Florida overnight, where water reached knee-level in Miami and more than a foot in Hollywood Thursday night, the Associated Press reported.
As the storm makes its way up the coast, the weather service predicted 2 to 3 inches of rain in parts of Georgia. The system will turn to snow by the time it reaches the northeast corner of Tennessee, AP said.
Western and central Virginia will get as much as 18 inches of snow during the weekend, NWS predicted. Baltimore and Washington could see up to a foot of snow.
The storm is likely reach New England before the weekend ends, and could dump 6 inches of snow in New York City.
