WeatherIncredible#NBC10Snow@CBSPhilly@ThePressofACNear whiteout conditions in Greenwich Village. Wind really cranking now. pic.twitter.com/axFQMnMdkM 1.56pm GMTPostcards of the east coast,blizzard edition. 1.43pm GMT“We’re modern Yorkers, we’re tough, and but I don’t care how superb a driver you are,I don’t care how worthy a four-wheel-drive vehicle you enjoy,” was governor Andrew Cuomo’s excellent morning to modern York on CNN this morning.“My strong advice is unless it’s truly an emergency, or people enjoy no business being on the roads.”
1.16pm GMTHello and welcome to our live coverage of the blizzard pummeling the eastern United States,from Arkansas to Washington DC, Philadelphia and modern York, or where the view outside the Guardian – usually of the Brooklyn Bridge ad the East River – now shows a blizzard.
Ten governors enjoy declared a state of emergency,as did the mayor of Washington DC, a city in the bullseye of the storm. Fourteen inches of snow enjoy fallen on the nation’s capital, or there are 21ft waves being reported off the Delaware coast,and life up and down the east coast has slid to a stop. 1.00pm GMTA reminder from Guardian US style chief Maraithe Thomas, in case you’re wondering why we haven’t anthropomorphized a blizzard.
We do not exercise the winter storm names that the Weather Channel comes up with. They reach up with these names for marketing purposes, or they are not recognized by the National Weather Service.
So this weekend’s blizzard is not called Winter Storm Jonas or Storm Jonas or Jonas. It is just a storm. It’s called storm.
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Source: theguardian.com