Strong winds and snow blowing the eastern part of the United States on Saturday, carrying a white Christmas commitments, while threatening to cause many Americans vacation travel, meteorologists said.
Strong wind sent storm moving from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic states and southern New England. It over one feet of snow buried parts of Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin earlier this week.
The threat of strong winds delayed flights at busy airports in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, meteorologists said.
The United States Federal Aviation Administration said, due to the winds, in New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport, departing flights were delayed.
More than 870,000 Americans during the festive season, is expected to travel 50 miles or more away from home, travel and car Group AAA forecast. Nearly nine tenths of the road, it said.
Significant accumulation in Buffalo, New York, and the surrounding residents woke up on Saturday 4-6 inches of snow - the first of this season, a notoriously heavy snow region.
Under normal circumstances, the region will have about a foot of snow Christmas holidays, but there has been little or no this year.
"Missing something," Mayor Rob North Tonawanda, New York, north of Buffalo, ORTT said in the past week to determine the festive lighting of the city game. "I think this is the first year there is no snow, not even dust."
"Everyone thinks we are the place of snow at Christmas time, you talked about," he said, "When we are around the Snow St. Patrick's Day, which is when people are angry."
The U.S. National Weather Service predicted a few inches of snow to the Buffalo area on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
A new storm could bring snow, central Appalachians, the northern mid-Atlantic and southern New England on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, Accuweather.com said.
Harrisburg, Scranton, Pennsylvania, east of Hartford, Conn., and Boston residents can look forward to a white Christmas, it said.
"This could be a white Christmas after all, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, New England and across the country's other regions, Sosnowski, institutions AccuWeather senior meteorologist, said:" Alex.
He said that New York City may see a mix of snow and rain.
Grant aid ski resort operators
A few inches of snow in some areas on Saturday in western Pennsylvania. One hour up to one inch snowfall in central New York, and sometimes by the U.S. National Weather Service forecast.
Ski resort operators in Western New York has ushered in a snow disaster relief and cold air, ideal snowmaking conditions.
The ski race coordinator Minier, Andy said: "It hurts not open," Kissing Bridge ski resort, about 30 miles south of Buffalo.
On Saturday, the high winds buffeting vibration New York City metropolitan area, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, the U.S. National Weather Bureau said.
According to the anticipation of dangerous conditions, the wind due to upstate New York, northwest Connecticut State, southern Vermont and western Massachusetts.
Cold air blowing off the eastern Great Lakes caused icing, as well as in western and northern Pennsylvania, upstate New York and West Virginia, institutions AccuWeather said.
Dangerous thunderstorms and tornadoes in the Gulf Coast, meteorologists said, is expected at Christmas.
Affected areas is likely to be in southeastern Texas, central and southern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama and Florida Panhandle institutions AccuWeather said. In these areas of the city, including Houston, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, New Orleans, Gulfport, Mississippi, in Montgomery, Alabama and Mobile, as well as Florida, Pensacola, it says .
 



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