NEW YORK
A powerful nor’easter is barreling toward the East Coast, prompting cities and towns from Maryland to Massachusetts to scramble Sunday as forecasters upgraded alerts to blizzard warnings and warned the storm could be significantly more severe than initially projected.
The National Weather Service said 1 to 2 feet of snow is possible in many areas, with blizzard warnings now in effect for New York City, Long Island, Boston, and coastal communities across New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
Flooding is also possible in parts of New York and New Jersey.
“While we do get plenty of these nor’easters that produce heavy snow and strong impacts, it’s been several years since we saw one of this magnitude across this large of a region in this very populated part of the country,” said Cody Snell, a meteorologist at the service’s Weather Prediction Center.
The storm is expected to arrive Sunday morning in areas around Washington, D.C., before stretching toward Philadelphia and New York City, and reaching Boston by evening.
By James Kisoo
