Nov. 16 (UPI) — Heavy snow will blanket New England Friday as it marches north from New York City, where it dumped six inches a day earlier, forecasters said.
More than 89 million people are under a winter weather advisory — and about 175,000 are without power in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.
Newark, N.J., saw its snowiest November day on record since 1931. Forecasters said the weather pattern is more typical of late December or early January than mid-November.
Friday, New England will get the majority of the snow, and lake-effect snow could fall around Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Northern Maine and far northern New Hampshire could get 6 inches or more.
The Washington, D.C., area and Philadelphia have already received between 1 and 3 inches of snow, and St. Louis saw 2 to 5 inches. Isolated areas of Missouri were hit by 6 to 9 inches.
The winter storm already dumped snow from the Gulf region to the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic. In New York City, snow fell at rush hour Thursday, creating a nightmare for commuters. For some, it took several hours to get home.
The storm has created slick roads across multiple states and has been blamed for eight deaths so far.
A chain reaction crash killed an Ohio man Thursday; a Maryland woman died on icy roads; in Indiana, a tractor trailer slammed into a minivan; three people died in separate crashes in Arkansas; in Mississippi, a tour bus overturned on an icy bridge, killing two and injuring 44.
