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- Aug 25, 2010
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NEW YORK Parts of the Northeast were bracing Thursday for as much as 2 feet of snow combined with fierce winds of up to 75 mph as a major blizzard was expected to bring misery to the region.
Officials stockpiled ice-fighting supplies and put additional crews on alert from Pennsylvania through New Jersey and metropolitan New York, and up through Maine. The National Weather Service posted winter weather advisories across the area and a blizzard warning for the coast.
Some 900 flights were canceled and thousands more were delayed even though the worst weather was not expected until Friday.
Two weather systems could combine to produce "a major and potentially historic winter storm" for parts of the Northeast, according to the weather service. The storm was expected to gather steam Friday afternoon and last until Saturday.
"It's absolutely going to be a bad storm," said Michael Schlacter, the chief meteorologist for New York weather consulting firm Weather 2000.
LA Times
Officials stockpiled ice-fighting supplies and put additional crews on alert from Pennsylvania through New Jersey and metropolitan New York, and up through Maine. The National Weather Service posted winter weather advisories across the area and a blizzard warning for the coast.
Some 900 flights were canceled and thousands more were delayed even though the worst weather was not expected until Friday.
Two weather systems could combine to produce "a major and potentially historic winter storm" for parts of the Northeast, according to the weather service. The storm was expected to gather steam Friday afternoon and last until Saturday.
"It's absolutely going to be a bad storm," said Michael Schlacter, the chief meteorologist for New York weather consulting firm Weather 2000.
LA Times
