CHICAGO, April 3 (UPI) — Strong winds, snow, rain and thunder slammed the Midwest and Northeast, leaving more than 300,000 without power.
A powerful clipper system was moving through the Northeast Sunday morning, with the system bringing strong winds, snow, thunderstorms and hail from the Midwest to the Northeast, ABC News reported.
As the Pittssburgh Pirates take on the St. Louis Cardinals today for the season’s first pitch, wind chill temperatures will only reach the 20s and 30s.
And there is more bad weather to come. This is the first of two clippers expected in the Northeast.
Already, trees have been knocked down by the strong winds since Saturday, including in parts of Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, weather.com reported. In addition to the power outages, several people were reported injured from the high winds.
Two people in College Park, Md., were injured when strong winds sent a large tree crashing onto their car Saturday night, trapping one of the passengers inside temporarily.
The most significant power outages were reported in Pennsylvania, where about 84,000 customers were without power. About 62,000 more were without power in Virginia, 40,000 in New Jersey, 34,000 in Indiana and 23,000 in New York, NBC News reported.
High wind warnings and wind advisories remained in effect Sunday for portions of the Appalachians, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast through Sunday, with wind gusts up to 60 mph possible in the areas under high wind warnings. This could result in more downed trees and scattered power outages.
Eight inches of snow was recorded near Negaunee in northwestern Michigan, more than 7 inches fell in Wisconsin near Twin Lakes, and 5.5 inches of snow came down in Minnesota near Leonidas Saturday as the storm swept through. Parts of Western Pennsylvania could see 8 to 10 inches.
Another 4 to 6 inches of snow could fall in parts of upstate New York to parts of Massachusetts near Boston, and Connecticut could receive 1 to 3 inches, forecasters said.
“Getting snow in April in the Northeast is not that unusual — the unusual part is not the amount of snow, but more of the cold and the wind that’s coming along with it tonight and tomorrow,” Weather Channel forecaster Michael Palmer said.
