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The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings for all 21 New Jersey counties through Monday with widespread travel disruptions expected.
Several emergency declarations have already been issued as a massive winter storm barrels toward more than 35 states, putting more than 200 million people in its path and threatening “considerable disruption” to New York with up to a foot of snow.
Gov. Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency to prepare South Carolina for a winter storm expected to bring a mix of sleet, ice and snow.
Over 3,600 flights were canceled and 714 were delayed as of early Monday, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware, following more than 11,000 cancellations reported on Sunday. The number of cancellations and delays was expected to rise as the day progressed.
A major winter storm covering most of the U.S. knocked out power to more than one million people, cancelled tens of thousands of flights and left at least three people dead.
Many alerts remain in place with power outages in some regions
The impending arrival of a major winter storm has much of the U.S. playing the waiting game – waiting for snow, ice, frigid temperatures and possible power outages. Heavy snow was expected from the southern Rockies and Plains to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast,
Snow and dangerous ice spanned hundreds of miles from Texas to the Northeast. • Thunder ice: Power outages increased from ice across the South. Thunder and lightning were observed in areas of heavy freezing rain and sleet as the storm intensified overnight.