‘Whiteout’: Potentially historic winter storm closes in on Northeast
Not too long ago the North East experienced superstorm Sandy, which was the joining of more than one storm. It looks like it’s about to happen again, but this time as a Whiteout.
The story was released on NBC with frequent updates…
The National Weather Service put a swath of the country from New Jersey to Maine under a blizzard warning.
For Boston, the storm threatened to be the worst since records were established in the 19th century. The biggest snowstorm to hit that city dumped 27.5 inches in 2003, and forecasters said this blizzard could beat that.
The Weather Channel called for as much as 2 feet of snow in Hartford, Conn., and as much as 15 inches in New York.
New Jersey readied 2,000 plows and salt trucks, Rhode Island police asked people for loaner snowmobiles, and out-of-state utility crews headed for Connecticut to help.
TODAY’s Al Roker says that a clipper system coming off the Great Lakes coupled with a storm system making its way up the East Coast will collide, causing historic and potentially dangerous weather conditions for the Northeast.
View the full story here for updates and video.
What is a whiteout?
A bit of trivia for you if you don’t know what a whiteout is.
A Whiteout is a loss of visibility: an atmospheric condition in which low clouds merge with a snow-covered landscape, greatly restricting visibility, so that only darker objects are discernible; blizzard: a blizzard that is so severe it reduces visibility almost to zero.
To those of you in the path of this winter storm, stock up, keep warm, and always be careful.
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