Fern Lays Down Ice, Snow
Winter Storm Fern swept across much of the nation Saturday but weather watchers say we haven’t seen the worst of the storm yet. That’s because roads had become icy Saturday, causing an increase in traffic accidents, but the ice hadn’t reached the point where it was causing trees and power lines to snap.
That’s much more likely to happen in the early hours Sunday, and continuing to spread through the day. We’ll see the damage from these widespread outages as the weekend winds down, particularly in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and the Piedmont region of North Carolina.
We’ll also see the heaviest snowfall on Sunday. A band along the Ohio River, from Louisville through the Cincinnati area, is expected to pick up about a foot of snow. Heavier totals will fall from Pennsylvania into New York and points farther east. The Mid Atlantic and New England states could see 12 to 18 inches of snow.
So far, air traffic has been more impacted than ground travel. Some 16,000 flights have been canceled over the next three days. Here’s more from meteorologist Max Velocity.
