By STEVE LeBLANC and SCOTT SONNER
BOSTON (AP) — Winter weathercondition damaged both U.S. coasts Saturday as New Englanders braced for an even more powerful mix of snow and freezing rain through the weekend and a Sierra Nevada storm packaging heavy snow shut down a stretch of interstate and briefly knocked out power to 10s of thousands in Reno, Nevada.
Winter storm cautions and enjoys were in result throughout the Northeast, and icy roadways made for harmful travel as far south as North Carolina.
The National Weather Service stated it was a “major winterseason storm” that would continue into Sunday night, with up to a foot (30 centimeters) of snow in parts of New England and pockets of rain/freezing rain in the main Appalacians.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stated she anticipated two-thirds of her state to get 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow or more, “fortunately missingouton some of our more inhabited locations downstate, the Long Island and New York City.”
“If they get anything beyond rain, it’ll be simply a wintry mix of 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters), however truly for our Southern Tier … it’s going to be the veryfirst significant snowstorm of the year and we’re allset for it,” she informed Spectrum News.
In the West, a winterseason storm caution was in result through Saturday night in the Sierra Nevada from south of Yosemite National Park to north of Reno, where the weathercondition service stated as much as 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow might fall in the mountains around Lake Tahoe with winds gusting up to 100 milesperhour (160 kph) over ridgetops.
The California Highway Patrol stated various spinouts and crashes required the short-term closure of I-80 for anumberof hours from west of Truckee, California, to the state line west of Reno, where more than 27,000 homes briefly lost power in high winds at midday.
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