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New York City Weather

December 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on New York City Weather 

New York City Weather, (AP) – A band of icy cold winds to the east coast, on Sunday threatened to bring blizzards and a foot of snow in New York and New England, while several southern states have made declarations of emergency as the storm caused crashes on slippery roads.

Airlines grounded hundreds of flights Sunday along the northeast corridor in anticipation of the storm, affecting major airports, including JFK and Newark in New York. Airlines said more cancellations were likely as the storm progressed. Travel misery began a day earlier in some southern regions, where a rare white Christmas has come with reports of dozens of car accidents.

Transportation officials in Washington roads pretreated and prepared than 200 salt trucks, plows and other equipment to fight against the 6 inches or more expected to decline in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The North is expected to get the brunt of the storm. Forecasters issued a blizzard warning for New York Sunday and Monday with a forecast of 11 to 16 centimeters of snow and strong winds that will reduce visibility to near zero at times. A blizzard warning was also in effect for Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts including Boston, with forecasters predicting 15 to 20 inches of snow. A blizzard warning is issued when snow is accompanied by sustained winds or gusts over 35 mph.

As much as 18 inches could fall on the shore of New Jersey, with gusts over 40 mph.

Baltimore and Washington were to get 6 or more inches of snow, with surrounding areas that will experience the largest number of 9, the weather service.

By Sunday morning, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina declared states of emergency. Amtrak has canceled several of its trains in Virginia.

“Winds gusting to 45 mph will cause blowing snow and that will cause the worst,” said Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell the Weather Channel on Saturday night. “We urge extreme caution in travel. Try to go early and if you do not have to travel do not go.”

Major airlines have been canceling flights in the path of the storm Sunday. Continental Airlines canceled 250 departures from Newark Liberty International Airport outside New York City. United Airlines canceled dozens of departures on Sundays from Newark, Philadelphia, New York LaGuardia and JFK, Boston and other airports. AirTran and Southwest Airlines also canceled flights, mostly in or out of Washington Dulles, Baltimore and Newark.

Most carriers have been the abolition of fees for time change in the affected areas and urging passengers to make changes on their websites.

The monster storm is the result of a low pressure system, which will develop off the coast of North Carolina on Sunday morning and strengthen into a storm as it moves northeast, according to the National Weather Service .

Delaware and Philadelphia is preparing for up to a foot of snow expected to fall from Sunday until Monday, and authorities urged people to avoid traveling if possible.

Sunday morning, winter storm warnings extending from Georgia to New England.

White Christmas in the South was one for the record books. Columbia, SC, held its first Christmas snow significantly since meteorological records were first kept in 1887. Atlanta was a little over an inch of snow – the first measurable accumulation on Christmas Day since 1880.

North Carolina Highway Patrol said Saturday night that most roads in and around Asheville have been covered or partially covered with snow and ice. Emergency management spokeswoman Julia Jarema said soldiers in the two counties west dozen 350 calls answered in 18 hours on Saturday. Most were wrecks.

Lance Cpl. Bill Rhyne, spokeswoman for the patrol of the South Carolina Highway, said Saturday night that the snow began to cover the roads, but there were fewer accidents than there would be a normal night.

“Everyone at home,” he said. “It’s Christmas. They are heeding the warnings and stay off the roads.”

However, transportation officials in the state had deployed more than 200 plows, salt trucks and other equipment.

In Nashville, some travelers who are planning a trip to a sweet Christmas surprises.

“We hoped that this would be a good day to travel,” said Heather Bansmer, 36, of Bellingham, Washington

She and her husband, Shawn Breeding, 40, had planned to go home on separate flights after a visit to the family of reproduction in Bowling Green, Ky. But flight reproduction thanks to Atlanta was canceled.

The couple was expecting to spend much of Christmas Day in different airports.

“A white Christmas is not so welcoming,” said Breeding, the couple stood in the lobby of the Nashville airport with their luggage in a cart.

In Pensacola, Florida, Jena Passuti faces a dilemma. The magazine editor, 36, was driving with her husband and two children in Fairfax, Virginia to visit relatives. Saturday afternoon, she worried about how to return home amid the snow.

“Should we leave on Christmas Eve? My children are travelers normally, but if it will take us twice as long, it will be hell,” she said. “Like a white Christmas just like everyone else but I do not want to drive.”

Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Kristin M. Hall in Nashville, Page Ivey in Columbia, Karen Hawkins in Chicago and Verena Dobnik Warren Levinson in New York, David Goodman in Detroit, Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Samantha Bomkamp; Michelle Price in Phoenix; Dylan Lovan in Louisville; Pallat Leonard and Greg Bluestein in Atlanta and Mark Pratt in Boston.

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Philadelphia Weather

December 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Philadelphia Weather 

Philadelphia Weather, (AP) – The beautiful weather contributed to party stay an experience not so bad in much of the country Thursday, with even more people are moving than last year, but the chance to travel could be short.

A storm would bring snow and ice to parts of the heart Friday to offer a rare white Christmas in Nashville on Saturday and perhaps sock swaths of the Northeast on Sunday.

“People who go to grandma’s house,” said Bobby Boyd, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Nashville, “need to go.”

Eric and Tatiana Chodkowski, of Boston, were conducted Thursday with their children, aged 2 and 4, to see relatives in New York. They said forecasts for snow on Sunday was whether they were doing at the time, as expected.

They found the roads congested, but manageable Thursday, and most people find the country’s airports to be in the same way.

Planes took off in the wind, but the sky to welcome New York LaGuardia Airport as Steve Kent ready to fly to Denver for a ski trip with family, scoffing at the puny lines.

“I do not find it so difficult,” he said. “I think Thanksgiving is more difficult.”

At airports, security lines long feared over Thanksgiving, when almost everyone is on the same day, never materialized, and we do not expect that day. Spread nature of year-end holidays means things will not be quite so cramped.

Travelers may notice that the airport controllers take closer insulated beverage containers such as empty thermos, because the airlines were warned of a potential terror tactics by involving an administration official said.

The official, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues of security, said there is no information about an active terror plot. The Homeland Security Department regularly alerts law enforcement on the changing tactics of terror.

The Air Transport Association expects 44.3 million people on U.S. flights between December 16 and January 5 – up 3 percent over the same period a year ago but still below the volume of travel ‘before the recession. The average ticket price and is 421, up 5 percent.

Vino Volo Wine Room at Detroit Metropolitan Airport receives more passengers, manager Mark Del Duco, said Thursday.

“The atmosphere of Christmas is gone this year than last year, he said, estimating that sales are up this 10 percent this season compared to last year as travelers spend more freely financially confident.

Mike Lukosavich, Harrison Township, Mich., was surprised the first leg of his trip was moving so smoothly when he stopped at the rest area on Highway in Elmore, Ohio, Ohio, near Toledo.

He, his wife and their 8-month daughter were heading to see family in Parkersburg, West Virginia His headache did not come when he saw gas prices by about a gallon and 3.

“It’s something you have to do to see the family,” said Lukosavich, 33.

The AAA Travel has provided overall increase of about 3 percent this year, with more than 92 million people intend to go over 50 miles somewhere between now and January 2. Over 90 percent said they would be driving.

Maria Romero, a cashier at the Chevron Food Mart just off Interstate 15 in Barstow, Calif., said she has seen an increase in passenger numbers there, especially families and people of outside the state.

“It’s wonderful. We need it, “she said.”The busier the better.”

Some passengers were not pleased with their mode of transport. Anthony Lauro joined nearly 100 people lined up Thursday morning for a coach in Montreal related to the Port Authority of New York and the bus station from New Jersey to Manhattan. He faces a race of eight hours to see his girlfriend there.

“Flying in Canada is astronomically too expensive,” he said.

Help matters that the party’s most densely populated country has got a break in time on Thursday with rain finally stopped in California and a few days in the East.

But the storm was a concern in parts of Thursday abdomen of the nation.

Steve Brown, 50, of Elm Creek, Nebraska, left Tuesday afternoon and drove all night to beat the storm as it made its way east. Brown, a grain carrier, took her two children to see her mother on the dairy farm in Ohio where he grew up.

“I was about to go home or she would pick me,” Brown said during the rest area Elmore, where adults full of coffee while the children, traveling in pajamas, Tater Tots loaded on.

After the record snow falls in the East and a treacherous Christmas travel season last year, the average time travel can mess seem to be on many minds?

At LaGuardia, Mike and Martha Lee Mellis expected to go to Aspen, Colorado with their three young sons. They feared a repeat of the ski trip last winter when a blizzard struck when they were transferred to Chicago on the way home.

“We had to go through Philadelphia, and I had to rent a car and house everyone drives at 11 at night,” recalled Mike Mellis.

His wife had tried to forget, saying: “I blocked everything.”

Mulvihill reported Haddonfield, NJ contributed to this report were Associated Press writers David Goodman in Detroit, Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Samantha Bomkamp; L. Lucas Johnson II in Nashville, Tennessee; Verena Dobnik in New York, Michelle Price in Phoenix, Mark Pratt in Boston, and John Seewer in Elmore, Ohio.

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Philadelphia Airport

December 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Philadelphia Airport 

Philadelphia Airport, (AP) – A band of icy cold winds to the East Coast Sunday threatened to bring blizzards and a foot of snow in New York and New England, while several southern states have made declarations of emergency as the storm caused crashes on slick roads.

Airlines grounded hundreds of flights Sunday along the northeast corridor in anticipation of the storm, affecting major airports, including JFK and Newark in New York. Airlines said more cancellations were likely as the storm progressed. Travel misery began a day earlier in some southern regions, where a rare white Christmas has come with reports of dozens of car accidents.

Transportation officials in Washington roads pretreated and prepared than 200 salt trucks, plows and other equipment to fight against the 6 inches or more expected to decline in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The North is expected to get the brunt of the storm. Forecasters issued a blizzard warning for New York Sunday and Monday with a forecast of 11 to 16 centimeters of snow and strong winds that will reduce visibility to near zero at times. A blizzard warning was also in effect for Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts including Boston, with forecasters predicting 15 to 20 inches of snow from Sunday 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. A blizzard warning is issued when the snow is accompanied by sustained winds or gusts over 35 mph.

As much as 18 inches could fall on the shore of New Jersey, with gusts over 40 mph. A blizzard warning was also in effect for Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts including Boston, with forecasters predicting 15 to 20 inches of snow from Sunday 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. Monday.

Baltimore and Washington were to get 6 or more inches of snow, with surrounding areas that will experience the largest number of 9, the weather service.

By Sunday morning, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina declared states of emergency.

“Winds gusting to 45 mph will cause blowing snow and that will cause the worst,” said Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell the Weather Channel on Saturday night. “We urge extreme caution in travel. Try to go early and if you do not have to travel do not go.”

Major airlines have been canceling flights in the path of the storm Sunday. Continental Airlines canceled 250 departures from Newark Liberty International Airport outside New York City. United Airlines canceled dozens of departures on Sundays from Newark, Philadelphia, New York LaGuardia and JFK, Boston and other airports. AirTran and Southwest Airlines also canceled flights, mostly in or out of Washington Dulles, Baltimore and Newark.

Most carriers have been the abolition of fees for time change in the affected areas and urging passengers to make changes on their websites.

The monster storm is the result of a low pressure system, which will develop off the coast of North Carolina on Sunday morning and strengthen into a storm as it moves northeast, according to the National Weather Service .

Delaware and Philadelphia is preparing for up to a foot of snow expected to fall from Sunday until Monday, and authorities urged people to avoid traveling if possible.

Sunday morning, winter storm warnings extending from Georgia to New England.

White Christmas in the South was one for the record books. Columbia, SC, held its first Christmas snow significantly since meteorological records were first kept in 1887. Atlanta was a little over an inch of snow – the first measurable accumulation on Christmas Day since 1880.

North Carolina Highway Patrol said Saturday night that most roads in and around Asheville have been covered or partially covered with snow and ice. Emergency management spokeswoman Julia Jarema said soldiers in the two counties west dozen 350 calls answered in 18 hours on Saturday. Most were wrecks.

Lance Cpl. Bill Rhyne, spokeswoman for the patrol of the South Carolina Highway, said Saturday night that the snow began to cover the roads, but there were fewer accidents than there would be a normal night.

“Everyone at home,” he said. “It’s Christmas. They are heeding the warnings and stay off roads.”

However, transportation officials in the state had deployed more than 200 plows, salt trucks and other equipment.

In Nashville, some travelers who are planning a trip to a sweet Christmas surprises.

“We hoped that this would be a good day to travel,” said Heather Bansmer, 36, of Bellingham, Washington

She and her husband, Shawn Breeding, 40, had planned to go home on separate flights after a visit to the family of reproduction in Bowling Green, Ky. But flight reproduction thanks to Atlanta was canceled.

The couple was expecting to spend much of Christmas Day in different airports.

“A white Christmas is not so welcoming,” said Breeding, the couple stood in the lobby of the Nashville airport with their luggage in a cart.

In Pensacola, Florida, Jena Passuti faces a dilemma. The magazine editor, 36, was driving with her husband and two children in Fairfax, Virginia to visit relatives. Saturday afternoon, she worried about how to return home amid the snow.

“Should we leave on Christmas Eve? My children are travelers normally, but if it will take us twice as long, it will be hell,” she said. “Like a white Christmas just like everyone else but I do not want to drive.”

Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Kristin M. Hall in Nashville, Page Ivey in Columbia, Karen Hawkins in Chicago and Verena Dobnik Warren Levinson in New York, David Goodman in Detroit, Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Samantha Bomkamp; Michelle Price in Phoenix; Dylan Lovan in Louisville; Pallat Leonard and Greg Bluestein in Atlanta and Mark Pratt in Boston.

Copyright © 2010 the Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Wbal Weather

December 16, 2010 by · Comments Off on Wbal Weather 

Wbal Weather, (AP) – Flames from a townhouse are Baltimore early Tuesday, killing three children and three adults and the flames spread to three neighboring houses, a fire official said.

Firefighters were called to the scene around 04:45 AM and found a brick house with two floors on fire, spokesman for the Baltimore Fire Department Kevin Cartwright said. Firefighters initially attacked the flames from the inside, but wind gusts intensified the fire and forced them to retreat, “said Cartwright. Wind gusts in the area at the time were between 30-40 mph, the National Weather Service reported.

Cartwright said once firefighters to extinguish the fire; they searched the house and found the victims. He did not know their age or identity, but neighbors said the victims were an elderly couple, their granddaughter and her three children.

A few hours after the fire, Karen Lane stood outside the house next to his mother. Her parents’ house next to it was one of those damaged, but Lane’s mother and father escaped unharmed.

“God thank you, they came out alive,” Lane said.

Richard and Eleanor Satterfield lived in the house where the fire was reported with their granddaughter, tiara, and her three children, Lane said.

Charles Voisin Giddins said Satterfield had nice neighbors.

“She had just retired to work on the child care program,” said Giddins. “All it would do is sit on the porch in the morning and feed the birds, and watch his grandchildren.”

Shirley Braxton, who lives in a house damaged by fire, said her daughter opened the door and shouted that the house of their neighbors was on fire, The Baltimore Sun reported.

“I said, ‘Get my little son.” Y’all just come out of the house, “Braxton said.” The only thing I thought was just released. ”

Fire investigators and fire detectives were working to determine the cause of the fire. The victims were reportedly killed by smoke inhalation, although the Office of the State Medical Examiner will make the final decision, “said Cartwright. He did not know if the house had smoke alarms.

Fire Tuesday was one of the deadliest in Baltimore in recent years. In January, four people were killed in a fire, and May 2007, a townhouse shot killed eight in eastern Baltimore.

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