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The first big winter The 2025 storm is hitting parts of the US with blizzard conditions and freezing rain, creating dangerous travel conditions.
Officials with the National Weather Service (NWS) are asking drivers in certain areas to avoid travel unless essential, after a winter storm already hit a large part of the country.
A vehicle drives cautiously on a snowy road on January 5, 2025 in Shawnee, Kansas. (Chase Castor/Getty Images/Getty Images)
On Sunday evening, the National Weather Service (NWS) office covering the Baltimore and Washington DC areas posted on X that it is “highly recommended” to postpone non-essential travel.
“Conditions will deteriorate rapidly tonight with untreated and unplowed roads becoming impassable. During periods of the heaviest snow between midnight and mid-morning Monday, even primary and treated roads will be impassable. Postponing non-essential travel is highly recommended.” NWS wrote.
SNOW STORM CANCELLS MORE THAN 1,000 FLIGHTS, HUNDREDS OF OTHER DELAYS AMONG US
The bureau expected “periods of heavy snow” to continue Monday morning with some sleet and freezing rain begins to mix.
Another snowfall is expected to arrive in the area Monday evening.
Meanwhile, the Maryland Transportation Authority posted Monday morning that if travel is essential, drivers should make sure not to speed or pass any plows or salt trucks. They must also keep their headlights on, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.
The Pennsylvania NWS office projected that light to moderate snow would continue Monday morning and be followed by “another round of steady snow” expected to reach the southern part of the state Monday evening.
The office warned that if people must travel they should plan more time to get to their destination.
The NWS office in Virginia also warned that the combination of snow, sleet and freezing rain will continue to “impact travel throughout the region, resulting in hazardous conditions,” especially in the Piedmont, a plateau region located in the ‘east of the United States, in the center of Virginia. and the Eastern Shore.
Although the NWS office in New York warned that the area will experience an “extended period of cold weather,” it will not receive the brunt of the storm.
Louisville Fire Department Quint 9 firefighters remove snow in front of their station on January 5, 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Luke Sharrett/Getty Images/Getty Images)
The bureau predicted light snowfall in the area on Monday, but “less than an inch of accumulation is expected, with some seeing only a dusting or no snow.”
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The storm initially began on the West Coast, where it spawned first tornado of the year in California.
It moved into the Plains and Midwest over the weekend, creating blizzard conditions at Kansas City International Airport. Sleet and freezing rain also caused crashes across the region from Kansas and Missouri to the Ohio Valley.
FOX Weather contributed to this report.
