A extremely impactful and probably historic nor’easter is anticipated to rapidly strengthen because it collects itself offshore close to Delaware, Maryland and Virginia on Sunday, resulting in main and probably excessive impacts for thousands and thousands alongside the I-95 hall.
Greater than 50 million Individuals have been on alert on Sunday morning for winter storm circumstances starting later Sunday and persevering with into Monday.
An ABC Information graphic from Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, on the anticipated winter storm.
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Blizzard warnings are in impact for greater than 35 million Individuals from Cape Charles, Virginia, to Dover, Delaware, as much as the I-95 hall from Philadelphia to Boston for elevated confidence in snowfall of greater than a foot and gusty winds that can possible trigger blizzard circumstances. The whole states of Delaware, New Jersey and Rhode Island have been included.
An ABC Information graphic from Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, on the anticipated winter storm.
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Winter storm warnings have been in impact for components of central Virginia and Maryland, east-central Pennsylvania, southern New York, northern Connecticut, west-central Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and Vermont, and southern Maine for elevated confidence of snowfall.
Some areas predict about 6 inches, whereas some areas might probably see greater than a foot, in addition to gusty winds that can possible trigger blowing snow and whiteout circumstances.
These circumstances may hit main cities, together with Baltimore; Harrisburg and Scranton, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York; Hartford, Connecticut; Harmony, New Hampshire; and Portland, Maine.
An ABC Information graphic from Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, on the anticipated winter storm.
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New York Metropolis and Philadelphia have been underneath a blizzard warning for whole snowfall reaching between 16 and greater than 20 inches, with potential winds gusting as much as 55+ mph, inflicting whiteout circumstances and difficult-to-impossible journey circumstances later Sunday by Monday.
New York Metropolis hasn’t been underneath a blizzard warning since March 2017, near a decade in the past. The final such warning for Philadelphia was in January 2016, greater than a decade in the past.
An ABC Information graphic from Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, on the anticipated winter storm.
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“The snow is again,” New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani mentioned on social media early on Sunday. “However New York is prepared.”
Greater than 6,700 flights have been canceled for Sunday and Monday, in response to flight tracker FlightAware. Over half of all flights at John F. Kennedy and Laguardia airports have already been canceled forward of the storm.
Airports in Newark, Boston, Philadelphia , Reagan and Baltimore have additionally seen vital cancellations. Between 70% and 80% of flights scheduled for Monday at New York airports and in Boston have already been canceled.
An ABC Information graphic from Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, on the anticipated winter storm.
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Coastal Flood alerts have been additionally up from coastal Delaware, Maryland and Virginia to the Jersey Shore, in addition to from Lengthy Island to the coast of southern and japanese New England for minor to average coastal flooding throughout excessive tide.
-ABC Information’ Gio Benitez contributed to this report.
