As the East Coast battled ice and freezing rain Saturday, a storm developing in the Plains, coupled with a new blast of Arctic air from Canada, was expected to bring more heavy snow and dangerously cold wind chills to the nation's mid-section for the weekend, the National Weather Service forecast.
In parts of the East, the freezing rain created widespread travel headaches, prompting Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., to close all runways Saturday morning.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority also shut down the entire bus system until mid-morning because of unsafe streets. One person was killed in Virginia, inside the Beltway, as the state recorded some 41 traffic accidents in Northern Virginia by early morning Saturday, WUSA-TV reports.
The weather service issued a wintry weather advisory for the Baltimore area, meaning that periods of sleet and freezing rain through noon could lead to slippery roads and limited visibility. City officials said at least 30 cars were involved in one accident on I-95. At least two people were killed in a spat of accidents.
In one of the crashes, a gas tanker truck overturned and fell off the elevated portion of I-95 in downtown Baltimore and burst into flames, WBAL-TV reports.
The weather service says the new front is expected to drive temperatures down sharply and quickly in the central states, with 60 and 70-degree temperatures in Oklahoma and Texas dropping as much as 25 degrees within an hour as it moves through.
USA Today
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