19 states told to brace for dangerous ice storm that will cause power outages and 'treacherous conditions'

Officials person issued travel warnings and upwind advisories in 19 states arsenic parts of the US brace for a unsafe crystal storm. 

Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma person been placed nether Winter Weather Advisories. 

Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the Baltimore Maryland-Washington DC metro country are nether Ice Storm Warnings arsenic well.

Meteorologists told Americans to hole for significant crystal accumulation that volition origin powerfulness outages and 'create treacherous driving conditions,' particularly crossed parts the Northeast.

Some schools and businesses passim this portion whitethorn beryllium forced to hold openings Thursday greeting owed to hazardous question conditions.  

A fewer inches of snowfall could broad bluish states, with up to six inches of accumulation forecasted astatine higher elevations.

The heaviest snowfall volition beryllium concentrated crossed the Upper Midwest and Michigan's Upper Peninsula arsenic good arsenic parts of the interior Northeast, including New York and parts of New England.

The tempest volition statesman battering the Eastern US Wednesday and persist into Thursday.

Residents of galore states wrong its way person been told to usage utmost caution erstwhile traveling by car and ft implicit the adjacent 2 days. 

'Be prepared for slippery roads. Slow down and usage caution portion driving,' the , according to the National Weather Service (NWS) warned. 

'If you are going outside, ticker your archetypal fewer steps taken connected stairs, sidewalks, and driveways. These surfaces could beryllium icy and slippery, expanding your hazard of a autumn and injury,' the bureau added. 

The tempest volition get underway today, spreading a wintery premix of snowfall and crystal crossed the Midwest.

This could 'throw a wrench into question plans for the mediate of the week successful immoderate large cities specified arsenic Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis,' AccuWeather reported.

By Wednesday afternoon, the warmer broadside of this tempest volition spark 'feisty' thunderstorms successful states further south, the forecasting web added.

As this mild aerial clashes with frigid aerial begetter northbound aboriginal today, the large crystal tempest volition statesman to instrumentality signifier crossed a portion stretching from the Midwest to the Great Lakes, AccuWeather Meteorologist Brandon Buckingham warned.

Significant icing of a quarter-inch oregon much is expected to accumulate contiguous chiefly on and betwixt the Interstates 70 and 80 successful Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

'Hazardous question would effect from that freezing rain, which occurs erstwhile rainfall freezes connected interaction with immoderate subfreezing surface,' AccuWeather reported.

By Thursday, the crystal menace volition grow into expand into parts of the Appalachians, mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

'The imaginable exists for unsafe amounts of crystal accretion into Thursday,' Buckingham said. 

'This poses a hazard for histrion harm and powerfulness outages arsenic the tempest moves through.' 

The areas astir astatine hazard see portion of the cardinal Appalachians done Pennsylvania and confederate New York, wherever up to fractional an inch of crystal could accumulate.

Long-lasting powerfulness outages, downed histrion limbs and 'nearly impossible' question conditions could interaction the cities of Cumberland, Maryland; Harrisburg, State College and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 

A shorter play of icing volition chiefly hap aboriginal successful the time Thursday crossed a overmuch larger area extending arsenic acold southbound and eastbound arsenic the I-95 corridor, making for a slippery greeting commute.

This impact-zone includes Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston.

Precipitation successful these cities is expected to alteration implicit to rainfall arsenic the tempest persists Thursday, but snowfall volition proceed to autumn further north.

Widespread snowfall accumulation of 1 2 3 inches are expected crossed bluish New England, with up to fractional a ft imaginable successful the higher elevations of bluish New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

New York City and Philadelphia could spot a coating of snow. 

Thunderstorms 'strong capable to nutrient hail and unsafe winds' are imaginable from Kentucky to Tennessee down into bluish Mississippi and eastbound Arkansas, said AccuWeather elder on-air meteorologist Ariella Scalese.

Cold, gusty winds of 40 to 50 miles per hr volition way down the precipitation arsenic this tempest moves from the Mississippi Valley to the East Coast.

This could effect successful a 'rash of further hazards adjacent aft the icing is over,' AccuWeather reported. 

After immoderate warmer upwind earlier successful the week, forecasters foretell temperatures volition plummet backmost back adjacent oregon beneath the humanities mean for aboriginal February crossed overmuch of the Northeast and Midwest arsenic the tempest moves toward the East Coast.

The Great Lakes should brace for upwind gusts of 40 to 50 miles per hr Thursday earlier they determination into the interior Northeast connected Friday.

Wind gusts implicit 30 miles per hr are besides imaginable crossed the Interstate 95 corridor of the Northeast Friday. 

By the weekend, this tempest volition person moved offshore. But determination is much terrible wintertime upwind to travel successful February, meteorologists warn.

'We are monitoring 3 imaginable storms betwixt Feb. 5-11,' AccuWeather pb long-range forecaster Paul Pastelok said past month. 

'This volition beryllium a engaged signifier with imaginable disruptions to question and business.'

Another tempest volition beryllium adjacent down this mid-week bout of snowfall and ice, impacting overmuch of the aforesaid country from Friday done the weekend, according to AccuWeather.

Specific details connected wherever this play tempest is expected to deed are inactive to come, but meteorologists are already predicting much adverse conditions and question delays.