FOX Weather Storm Specialist Mike Seidel shows you the snow scenes unfolding in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, as a winter storm blankets parts of the Northeast with the first snow of the season.
NEW YORK – As Thanksgiving travelers hit the road, a powerful early-season snowstorm moves through the Northeast caused travel delays and disruptions.
More than a foot of snow fell in parts of the Upstate New York and northeast PennsylvaniaThis is reported by the FOX Forecast Center. High Point, New Jersey reported 8 inches of snow, while 19 inches of snow fell in Cortez, Pennsylvania and 17.1 inches on the ground in Franklin, New York.
Interstate 84 near Dunmore, Pennsylvania, is currently experiencing severe traffic delays due to heavy snowfall Friday. The affected area is approximately 2 miles northeast of Scranton. FOX Weather Storm Tracker Brandon Copic is on scene reporting nearly three feet of snow accumulation in the northeast and northwest regions of Dunmore.
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Traffic along Interstate 84 near Scranton, Pennsylvania, came to a standstill Friday morning as heavy snow blanketed the roads and reduced visibility.
Winter weather suspending air traffic at Greater Binghamton Airport in Johnson City, New York. Delays and cancellations were also reported at other major airport hubs in New York, Boston and Washington.
Weather observation sites in both Wilkes Barre and Binghamton reported some of the heaviest snowfall rates on record in November, causing extensive power outages.
A three-hour radar loop showing where snow (blue), rain (green) and mixed precipitation (magenta) are falling.
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In New York and Pennsylvania, more than 125,000 power outages were reported due to falling trees.
Local utilities promised that the majority of outages would be restored by the end of the weekend.
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Winter weather warnings remain in effect for areas in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee and North Carolina, while some places along the Appalachians even issued blizzard warnings.
Snow levels were expected to remain high enough that only the highest terrain will receive significant snow. Cities like Boston and Portland, Maine, will remain all rain.
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This graph shows active winter weather warnings in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
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The Federal Aviation Administration reported plane delays of between 1 and 2 hours in many Northeast cities, including at Boston’s Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport, New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport and nearby Newark International Airport.
Delays were expected to improve on Saturday; However, the gusty winds and remaining precipitation would likely still cause some travel delays.
The precipitation is expected to help alleviate some of the record-breaking drought conditions and reduce drought wildfire threat plaguing the region. More than 12 inches of snow has been reported in the area surrounding the fatal accident Jennings Creek Fire that is smoldering along the New Jersey-New York border, according to the FOX Forecast Center.
Behind this storm system, the coldest air of the season will move south from Canada in the days after Thanksgiving and early December. Much of the country will experience below-average temperatures as travelers head home, according to the FOX Forecast Center.
This graph shows forecast rain totals in the Northeast.
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