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Subscribe to RSSThe storm that blanketed Chicago is now heading Northeast, and the South is also experiencing severe weather. Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Seidel reports.
Updated at 2:45 p.m. ET: A winter storm that storm that swept across the Midwest on Friday has affected air travelers. Delays averaged 45 minutes into and out of O’Hare International Airport, and more than 200 flights had been canceled because of weather, The Chicago Department of Aviation reports. Forty flights were canceled at Midway Airport.
“This system is going to continue to move northeastward and the primary snow threat should begin to move in towards some of the northeast, and particularly (the) New England area, with time," Steven Weiss, chief of the science support branch at the National Weather Service’s storm prediction center, told msnbc.com.
Updated at 7:23 a.m. ET: A winter storm left a "stripe of snow" across the Midwest before heading toward upstate New York and northern New England on Friday morning, weather.com reported.
Meteorologist Tim Ballisty predicted that Chicago could receive "a half foot or more" of snow.
"On Thursday into Friday, look for a stripe of snow to lay down from the Dakotas into Iowa, northern Illinois, far northern Indiana and lower Michigan," he added. "The bulk of the heaviest snow will fall south of Milwaukee -- closer to the Wisconsin/Illinois border."
Appearing on NBC's TODAY on Friday, weather.com's Mike Seidel reported that at least 130 flights had been delayed at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. He added that prior to Thursday, Chicago had received only 16 inches of snow all winter.
The storm also dropped several inches of snow over parts of North and South Dakota on Thursday with some places getting more than a foot of snow.
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"Look for areas north and west of Detroit, such as Flint, to pick up some of the heaviest snow across lower Michigan," Ballisty said. "It's here where we anticipate snowfall amounts to surpass 6 inches. Still, a decent snowfall will make its way into the Motor City on Thursday night with the heaviest snowfall rates occurring during the overnight hours."
Ballisty predicted that the storm would march into upstate New York and northern New England on Friday morning.
"Look for the heaviest snow to fall over the higher terrain of northern New York and Vermont," he said. "This includes Burlington, Vermont where snow totals could exceed half a foot."
Boston was also expected to be hit with a "slushy inch or two," Ballisty added.
Weather.com's Tim Ballisty, NBC News and msnbc.com's Miranda Leitsinger contributed to this report.
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Ooohhh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, but since we've no where to go; let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Betst regards to the folks who have to pull out the snow shovels again, our hearts are with you.
Thumbs Up for model rockets, metal fishing wire, storms and lightning, Ben Franklin style!
I don't know what snow they are talking about, here in Southern New England we have gotten squat in the line of snow all year with the exception of the Halloween storm. Every doomsday snow storm they clamor about has been a bust for us, not that Im complaining( I hate snow)but it gets old. I feel as if they blow every thing out of proportion this winter at least for us. Its been so mild my tulips are starting to emerge early!
Yeah, I'm reading the 11:50AM update that says it will be moving into New England...uh...it ended before we woke up this morning.
Seems like this happens every year.
What a over-kill with the weather
WOW 3-6 inches let's get 5 weather people on and talk about it all day WOOD-TV8
"Ballisty predicted that the storm would march into upstate New York and northern New England on Friday morning." And probably will using the old nazi goose-step approach chanting "schnow faul, schnow faul...".
I was thinking the same think. Sounds like the mid-west really got "slammed".
WHAT????
snow in the northern hemisphere in the middle of february??????
what is this world coming to?????
It's that global climate change thingy people are talking about. It's all the rage.
One inch of snow and all the schools are closed. Since when do we allow the weather people to hype the schools closed? Predict 4-8 inches and receive 1 inch of snow. GOOD job, guys.
WOW - A half foot of snow! WOW - That's like 6 whole inches!!! WOW!! It won't even be noticed in these areas where it snows in the winter. Jeez, talk about over dramatizing things.
6"?! Really?! That would be considered just a normal snowfall in any other winter. I live in Lake Placid, NY...6" isn't a storm by any means. Send 10"-12" and then we start talking. It will be business as usual...
Most be a real slow day for news and you all have nothing to do but write this crap.
If all of you got together, you could form your on sarcasam club. To some people, this information just might be interesting. It's better than reading about all the violent crime and terrorism going on in todays world. At least its not as nerve racking.
If they did form that club, I wonder if they would misspell 'sarcasm' just to be sarcastic.
To everyone who has thought that we would go straight from fall to spring.....Surprise! Winter isn't officially over until six weeks after the groundhog does/doesn't see his shadow on or around March 21st, and for those of us northern folks, it can linger around to Easter and beyond. Much ado about nothing!
Winters a long time going this far up
Trouble...ahh...What trouble
Here in Wisconsin a few years ago we got a blizzard on April 1,followed by a ground blizzard on April 2. So, folks it is a long time until spring. (I remember because I spent a good part of the day in the ditch. Along with several other people in the same ditch)
Nothing here so far in Boston. Im assuming it will be north and west of Boston.
I live in Worcester, and we had some flurries this morning, and I drove through some snow in the Franklin/Bellingham area on my way to work... but it was nothing. It was accumulating a tiny bit on the grass, but nothing on the street.
I live in Springfield. And nothing other than slight frost.
I'm south of you in Hartford-- we had about an inch of snow early this morning, and then it rained.
Nice they got snow. We haven't had hardly squat up here in the Northwest. Ski season has been awful this year.
Great bunch of comments! Over dramatizing the snowfall in the northeast AGAIN; oh well, since we're way under total this year, they have to be excited about SOMETHING!
When did six inches of snow in February in Chicago become "being slammed"?? When I was growing up, that wouldn't even delay school for an hour.
Somebody please stop the weather hype. Weather happens, pretty much every year.
Well this is a change for this winter. I can't remember a winter where we have had so much green and 40 degree weather in NY. Only put 200 miles on my snowmobile before the snow turned to crap.
So far this storm is turning into another embarrassing moment for NOAA and the weather channel for Northern New England.
Freeways have been salted, and winter storm precautionary signs have been placed on the freeways since yesterday afternoon, Plow Drivers are standing by., Ski resorts were supposed to receive between 2" to 8" so I am sure some people are ready for a weekend of great skiing.
6 hours later after the storm was supposed to hit I just seen a lone flake of snow come down on the Grass.
I suspect we will see a huge dump of snow in April, or May as we did in October for the Northeast.
Certainly the use of "slam" in the article's title shows the hyperbole-droids working extra hard again.
Unethical practically, considerining "slam" is used in titles during war reports, hurricanes or tornadoes actually obliterating things. Oh yeah, or some loud-mouthed politician or party "slamming" someone else's ideas.
HYPERBOLE.
I'm in Iowa. Only 2 inches of snow here, warm mild day, no wind. I wonder who got SLAMMED with this WINTER STORM?
In my online discussion group, folks reporting from Minnesota and Ohio and Wisconsin didn't have snow, while S. Dakota
said they actually got some, and somebody said it snowed in Chicago. Since when is the fact that it snows a bit alarming?
When did that become a SLAMMING weather incident. When did it become a WINTER STORM?
Poor weather journalists... such a mild winter in most places, and not able to write that exciting word up in an article. LOL
I guess this was their opportunity. Laughable again, as usual.
I live in Western NY, south of Buffalo. The past 2 days we've gotten about 3 inches of snow each day. And places are actually closing because of this amount elsewhere? Since when is everybody so pussified that a couple of inches of snow falls and you want a Federal Disaster Declaration enacted? It's winter people. Drive slower( you know....somewhere under 80 mph), leave a little more room between your vehicle and the one in front of you( versus being so close you can't put a piece of paper in between the bumpers of both vehicles), and leave a little earlier to get to your destination( instead of leaving 31 mins before you have to be someplace in 30). You might actually survive without having to sue someone.
ISN'T this WINTER ?
what's the BIG DEAL?
a few WHITE FLAKES and the weathermen GO NUT'S since they've had nothing to talk about!
OH NO !! Not more SNOW in the wintertime in Chicago ! A HALF A FOOT !! OH NO !! Really ?
When was the last time a 6 inch snow was a problem ?
Karl from south of Buffalo has it right. Thank you Karl. ( I think this is what we get when people like liberals ......ummm.......are allowed into government positions with authority over money for "disasters" like a 6 inch snow!)
Oh yea, I live in the Pacific Northwest now, and I lived through my high school years in Illinois. And yes, we are trying very hard now to replace the current "leaders" (lib dems) these next two years.
eff the snow !love the lack of it this year
OMG! 6 inches of snow in VT!?!?!? Those poor people!
Seriously, thats a dusting to them....I lived there for 15 years! People would hardly blick at any storm under a foot of snow.
this Massachusetts area will cry for federal funding if they get 2",
and it will be considered a disaster area if a tree branch falls on a power line,
they can't trim the trees away from the power lines because it will take away from the aesthetics of the trees, and that was a quote form a spokesperson for the power company here.
I live in the Armpit of mass now, I miss having snow!
you call this Massachusetts the armpit,
but i have a much lower opinion of this place, picture some where around the waist line at the rear ;-)
Far from a winter storm
Actually, no, it's the definition of a winter storm...snow fell on the ground and accumulated.
It's just not as bad as they're hyping it up to be.