Travel disruptions, power outages and frigid temperatures are expected to affect 150 million Americans on Friday and through the weekend as a massive storm clobbers the U.S. with heavy snow and freezing rain from the Central Plains to the East Coast, the National Weather Service said.
The storm, which could impact nearly ?half the country¡¯s population, will bring up to 20 inches (50.8 centimeters) of snow in the Appalachians and West Virginia mountains, ?while most ?people living in the eastern U.S. could face dangerous slick or frozen roads and potential power outages ?from ice-laden trees and branches falling and snapping power lines, officials said.
¡°With the extreme cold in the North and the storm, half of all Americans are under some form of weather advisories,¡± said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the NWS¡¯s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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