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The first big winter Hurricane 2025 will affect parts of the United States with blizzard conditions and freezing rain, creating hazardous travel conditions.
Officials with the National Weather Service (NWS) are asking drivers in certain areas to avoid travel unless it's essential, after a winter storm battered large parts of the country.
A vehicle drives cautiously on a snowy road on January 5, 2025 in Shawnee, Kansas. (Courtesy of Castor/Getty Images/Getty Images)
On Sunday evening, the National Weather Service (NWS), which covers the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas, posted on X that it was “highly recommended” that travel be postponed if not essential.
Conditions will deteriorate rapidly tonight and unpaved and untreated roads will become impassable. During the heaviest snow, between midnight and mid-morning Monday, even basic, treated roads will be impassable. It is recommended to postpone unnecessary trips. NWS wrote.
The snowstorm canceled more than 1,000 flights and delayed hundreds more across the US
The department predicted that the “period of heavy snow” will continue Monday morning with some snow and rain Freezing rain begins to mix.
Another round of snow is expected to fall in this area on Monday evening.
Meanwhile, the Maryland Department of Transportation announced Monday morning that if travel is necessary, drivers should make sure to avoid speeding or passing any plows or salt trucks. They must also keep their headlights on, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation.
The NWS office in Pennsylvania predicted that light to moderate snow would continue into Monday morning, followed by “another period of steady snow” expected to reach the southern part of the state by Monday evening.
The office warned that people should plan more time to get to their destination if they have to travel.
The NWS office in Virginia also warned that a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain will continue to affect travel across the region and lead to hazardous conditions, particularly across the Piedmont, a plateau region located in the eastern United States, central to Virginia. . and the east coast
While the NWS office in New York warned that the region will see an “extended period of cold weather,” it will not bear the brunt of the storm.
Firefighters with Quint 9 of the Louisville Fire Department shovel in front of their station on January 5, 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Luke Short/Getty Images/Getty Images)
The bureau predicted light snow in the region on Monday, but “less than an inch of accumulation is expected, with some seeing only a dusting or no snow at all.”
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The storm initially originated on the West Coast, where it made landfall 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. Freezing snow and rain also led to incidents across the region from Kansas and Missouri through the Ohio Valley.
FOX Weather contributed to this report.