Snow rolling from southern Appalachians to Boston- flights canceled
winter storm warnings were in effect Wednesday in the southern Appalachian mountains to the coast of Massachusetts and was to end Thursday morning, said CNN meteorologist Sean Morris.
The snow fell about an inch an hour in Washington, DC, who was scheduled to receive 4 to 6 inches on Wednesday night, he said.
Federal employees and most business schools in Washington ended Wednesday morning.
Boston is also expected to point 8 to 12 inches with the heaviest snowfall on the morning of Thursday, he said.
Nashville Tennessee and the center has received 2-4 inches of snow Wednesday, said Morris.
The snowfall has even prompted airlines to cancel flights prevention.
Among the larger Delta Airlines cancellations were 575 flights between Washington, DC, and Boston, said spokesman Anthony Black.
American Airlines / American Eagle spokesman Ed Mart She said the two airlines canceled 280 flights Wednesday and another 65 are canceled for Thursday between Washington, DC and Boston.
United canceled 276 flights canceled Wednesday and 71 more proactively on Thursday, and Continental canceled 322 flights Wednesday and 108 more Thursday, said David Christensen, a spokesman for the airlines.
Southwest Airlines canceled more than 100 flights Wednesday in the Northeast, said spokeswoman Brandy King.
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley wants people to stay away from roads.
"This is a serious traffic safety and endangering the challenge," O'Malley said in a press conference in the center of the state of Hanover.
Maryland officials said that 1,600 maintenance workers and 1,400 pieces of equipment would be on the roads all night dealing with the storm.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the region until Thursday morning. Snow accumulations could reach 10 inches.
A problem that could prevent the removal of snow is the lack of sand and chemical preparation for roads due to recent heavy rains.
"We were not able to pre-treat surfaces," O'Malley told reporters after a briefing with officials of the Maryland public safety and transportation.
Maryland has not activated the National Guard, but they are ready for deployment if needed, officials said.
In Florida, the National Weather Service has sent research teams to investigate the damage caused by storms that moved through the state Tuesday night. They found that a tornado near Boca Raton was broken and uprooted trees, a meteorologist for CNN, said Morris.
St. Petersburg, Florida, 90 mph constant wind damaged a gas station and injuring a person, said Morris.
A tornado near Alva, Florida, destroyed six houses and damaged mobile, and straight line winds 60 to 90 mph damaged several homes near Groveland, Florida, said Morris.
This snowstorm comes after many had just dug themselves in the snowstorm that walloped the Northeast earlier this month.
The storm that struck in early January, hundreds of schools closed, stopped rail system between New York and the north of the dates and grounding hundreds of flights.
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire have up to 30 inches, while most areas received 8-16 inches of snow.