chad myers. join me right over there. we're going to get to chad in a moment.e is going to help us this evening. and vanessa freeman is with news 12 new jersey and she is holding up the big umbrella. it looks very windy and she has precipitation. take it away. what is going on? >> yes. >> keyword is trying to hold on to this umbrella. we are just along the bay here. we are on bay shore drive. we have been out here the entire evening and it started snowing around 8:00, 8:30 and as you can see as we pan down lower for you to see, it's really starting to accumulate out here, maybe an inch or more of snow. it's coming down a little light but they are expecting it to get more thick and more dense and that's what folks are worried about out here. >> and they are worried about coastal flooding as well, right? >> exactly. exactly. a lot of officials out here are worried about the flooding as you mentioned and with the storm surge coming in about 4 feet they are very concerned. and that is what encouraged a lot of the officials to put in place that mandatory evacuation.

you'll need the goggles i'm told by chad myers. chad has been crunching numbers and looking at the an llatest. what is happening now? when is the worst expected to come? >> i don't think the storm becomes a nor'easter coastal low for another six to eight hours. right now the low is over south carolina. i'm going to draw -- this is what the wind is doing in each location just like a big ho ho. the deal is the wind is coming from the south here in d.c. in baltimore, in richmond. all those stream lines are important because when this low right there is no longer there and it becomes here, i'm going to redraw this. this is what is going to happen when we put the low here. that same ho ho is going to do this. all of a sudden the winds will be coming in from the ocean dragging in the ocean water. this is the gulf stream, 44, 45 degrees out here. that's the moisture that's going to almost like we talk about when a hurricane explodes when it gets into 83 degree water, well, a coastal low in the winter time will explod when it gets into the

that's where we find our meteorologist chad myers.s getting more intense and frankly, it's freezing outside. >> reporter: it really is. i have been out here standing out here maybe for ten minutes and i'm really, really cold. the people out here are playing in this. there are hundreds of people out here today because there's nothing else to do. there are so many people from montreal that said what are you guys doing, how can we be in new york city with nothing to do? the city that never sleeps might just take a nap tonight. because everything is closed. all the shows are done, all the restaurants are pretty much closed, because everyone who works here had to go home with their car because they can't be going home at 9:00 or 10:00 because that would be violating the ban. even people saying i can't even get into a museum. that's right. the museum workers don't want to sleep in the museum, i know there's a movie about that, but they want to go home. that's what happened. at 2:30, everyone was released to go home and the city is literally

chad myers with me in new york tonight., that was an inch of snow and ice that did that to d.c. last night. that is nothing compared to what they are facing now. >> correct. but there will be nowhere near the number of cars on the road when this hits, right? they weren't prepared for it because they were looking at the big football, which is this. they weren't looking at the one inch last night. they took their eye off the ball and dropped the ball like running backs do when they try to do a screen pass. here is d.c., 15 inches. here is last year. here is what may come down in the next 48 hours, john. significant snow and this is and could be of course historic. there you go. 28 inches. the greatest d.c. picked up in one storm, not one day but one storm because this is a multi-day storm and it's coming to new york city, as well. >> history being made in d.c. potentially. you mentioned new york city. where is this going to hit? how broad are we talking about and what is going to happen here? asking for a friend. >> asking fo

that is from chad myers. tell us what is going on. who is experiencing the worst right now. the worst is yet to come, right? >> the worst is yet to come when the low gets into the gulf stream. that's the warm water although it is only 45 degrees to the south that's the explosion that is going to happen when a cold low is going to interact that like a hurricane getting over warm water. we have 31 million people in the blizzard warning which means the winds are going to blow 35 or 40 miles an hour. it is going to snow hard and visibilities are going to be less than half a mile for three hours at a time. the blizzard is going to put down significant snow at all once. right now, d.c., baltimore, philadelphia seeing the snow. just getting some snow into new york city. when the wind bliegins to blow that direction we are going to gather the humidity over the gulf stream and that's when the storm becomes the nor'easter. as it becomes the nor'easter then we pick up the winds. we are going to triple that and in some spots over 75 miles an hour along the shore all the way up to the de

chad myers is out and about. that can tell us about what lies ahead weather wise and i'm hoping, chad, that it's nothing but blue skies for a while? >> reporter: i'm seeing the blue skies as i look up eighth avenue. things look good today, although the people that have to dig out of that mess there and all of the messes up and down the avenues and the streets have their work cut out for them. marty in front of me is a car. now that is work. there is no reason to go to the gym when you have to get that car out of that snow bank right there. and just ahead one more block is one of the city's finest cruiser vans and it's not going to get out of here for a while. there you see a police car taking its lights. over here to the right is one of the shuttle transports, completely socked in. that is what we are seeing up and down the streets and the avenues. the cars are snowed in. obviously, you get 26 1/2 inches of snow, you get 30 inches of snow there at jfk and things are going to look pretty. we even have the light on

chad myers, thanks very much. we should point out, you know, that the weather conditions here are continuing to deteriorate. there are about 1600 snow plows that are out trying to keep new york city streets clear. if you don't know, most of those plows are on what they call the sanitation trucks. they have kind of a dual purpose here. jean casarez is also in new york. she's in what some would say the heart of new york, times square, and measuring things there. jean? >> reporter: you know, it's coming down even harder right now as i've been standing here. the conditions have continued to deteriorate since we got here this morning. it's the visibility. i mean, you can't even really see to the top of the buildings. you can't see the ball drop for new year's eve like you could, and the shoveling continues. we want to show you right over here. look at this shoveling. all morning they've been shoveling, but the snow keeps coming down and it comes down so hard and so fast that it looks like they don't do anything. they j

i want to go now to chad myers. chad, the other major concern tonight is the storm surge, right? and because it's so slow moving, pick up all of the warm water, that could be deadly. >> reporter: right. and we have a full moon which means the higher tides already and we have the wind blowing all of this water towards the shore and we'll have wave heights of 15 to 20 feet. there's no question. the waves will be smashing into new jersey and into long island and the water funnels through the long island sound and into the east river and tries to flood the coastal areas. look at the wind speeds. this is late, late tonight. 55 miles per hour in ocean city. by tomorrow morning, those winds will approach 70. so this in itself is almost a tropical storm that will batter the coastal regions. we're also going to see this water begin to build up. it's piling. if you push the water long enough, it's going to start get higher right along the coast and up into the hudson and up into delaware and wilmington and into the chesapeake as well. one thing of the chesapeake, the winds are going across

now to times square, our meteorologist chad myers. chad, can you believe it? we came so close to a record here in new york. >> we did break the 24-hour record. just not the all-time record. so a couple things went on at 7:00 this morning. it was like a starter's pistol went off and everybody got in their cars and tried to drive somewhere. and now we are at almost glid grandk -- gridlock. this fire truck has been sitting there for at least three minutes trying to get through this red light here on 57th -- 47th street in midtown. there's another fire truck behind it. the good news is they're not trying to go anywhere because earlier we had a major fire on ninth avenue. it was a four-alarm fire. had this happened right now, these guys would be in a world of hurt. something else that's happening -- ice falling off the buildings right onto people's heads. so i don't want to say look up and watch out because you don't want to get hit in the face, but it's coming off the buildings now as we see this afternoon's sunshine hit the buildings, ice falling down right onto

matt standby if you will, and i want to bring in chad myer, because chad, a lot of people hear that there was an h-bomb actually tested, and maybe somewhat confused as to the s significance of the explosive qualities and the travel qualities or the significance generally speaking between a-bombs and h-bombs and any other kind of weaponry that north korea has been up to. >> it is the difference of the megabyte and the kilobyte and then to the terabyte. and this is where all of the nations have been between a 4.3 magnitu magnitude, and 5.11 that we are been seeing in the desolate h area of some mining which is indicating that probably this is an underground test, and that is what we would expect. but let's get to this, the magnitude difference of what would be nagasaki, which is 15 kilo tons, and so 15 kilotons, and then to sue maut ra with the shaking the earth which is the equivalent of a tsunami, and that is 26 mega tons, and then you go to where mount st. helens is going off and knocking down trees for hundreds of miles, and that is mega tons. and now, over there where the big mount st.

let's go to chad myers, our meteorologist, in times square. i bet you the tourists are out in force. >> they are. from their bummer day yesterday when they got all their things canceled on them, the broadway shows and the opera and things like that, to now we have traffic again, traffic and honking as far as you can see. so we're back. now you have to understand the snow only stopped 12 hours ago. a record snowfall for the day ever in new york city and we're moving again. very few cities in the world can do this. but the smells are back, poppy. you have the burning pretzel. you have the hot dogs. you have little halal food. the food stands are back. that's what we were missing last night. new york didn't smell right last night. but now it is -- now it's looking goo. how you doing? we're live on cnn. how did the storm affect you? >> well, i live in a condo so not too much. >> you just went up and down. >> doorman came down and shoveled everything. had enough food for a week. >> reporter: ever seen know snow like this before? >>> i think back in

let's check in with our chad myers who is in the thick of it all. times square, it never seems to sleep. people have been out there in full force. how is it looking, chad? >> reporter: well, they're trying to get it clean. at 7:00 this morning, fred, it was like somebody shot the starter's pistol and said everybody go. you can get in your car and drive around on it. but the roads weren't ready for that. now i think they're finally ready. there are people that are early. we call them sooners, just like the oklahoma sooners and the land rush. we're still trying to clean this up. there's a lot of ice that's on the ground that formed last night. these guys are chipping with back breaking work with this hose and trying to get these ice chippers to get the ice off the roadways. because that's the law here in new york city. and across parts of times square. people are back in line waiting for tickets to get back to the snows tonight. the matinees all went off without a hitch today, thank goodness, that didn't happen yesterday as saturday night broadway was

we'll have more on all of it tonight, let's go first to chad myers with new data on this very dangerous storm. it's just beginning, chad, what can we expect? >> the low to intensify as it gets into the gulf stream. the gulf stream is that area of water out here that's nice and warm and comes from florida as the low ends up here later on tonight, it will begin to develop, get stronger than it is right now. we are just in the beginning of this. and i know i've seen spots in west virginia that have 12 inches of snow. we are going to pile on top of that as the storm gets bigger. the winds begin to pile up and they get bigger and bigger. we'll have winds to 70 miles per hour. just beginning to snow in philly. snowing in baltimore, d.c. to richmond and virginia about seven or eight inches of snow on the ground there and still snowing. further down to the south, ashville, greenville, the big cities, the triangle will get snow mixed with ice and sleet and you'll hear the sleet on the window all night long and farther to the south, even into atlanta freezing rain coming down in spots, making sli

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a person who would definitely know, as to what's going to happen, at least weather wise, chad myers. he joins me now from times square and chad, we continue to hear from public officials this concern like all right today, just take warning today, it's going to really get bad. >> reporter: the snow is going to continue. and what i'm noticing here as just a weather professional, the snow is making noise when it hits me. that means it's under-developed snow. kind of a snow/sleet pellet coming down now. they don't pile up as fast as light, heavy snow, but still hard to move. people in new york are still playing in this. i was driving around for three or four hours with a photographer, taking beauty shots that you're probably seeing on tv, but cars are still getting stuck, people are still trying to play in it. we know a few of the shows are being canceled here in times square. a lovely shot. it's hard to tell whether it's daytime or nighttime, because it's always this bright and you can't see the sky anyway. i have caitlin over here. you're from albany. you're from upstate, i'm from upsta

chad myers is live with me, and i think that i heard you say that you got the fresh model in, and this is the one that we have for the next 11 hours or so? >> correct. and we update the models and they run them at the weather service every 12 hour, and models that run in between, but i don't believe they are as accurate as the model from 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., and then 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., depending on the time zone. >> and what are you seeing? >> i have upped philadelphia g significantly, because it is not 10-14, but it is 18 to 20, and we are still looking at d.c. at 20 to 30, and baltimore 20 to 30, but we may never see that numb number, and there may not be anywhere where there is 20 inches of snow, because it is going to be 4 inches or 8 feet. if you add in a wind of 40 miles per hour the drifting with this system is tremendous. and blizzard warnings for officially 29 million people in a blizzard warning, and understand that there are 20 million pets in the same warning area, and they are cold if you are cold. it is going to be that serious even for the pets in and out, and

let's get over to cnn meteorologist chad myers. chad, yesterday you said, give me time, folks. i need to figure out where this is going. what are you seeing right now? >> things haven't changed. the models have been in amazing agreement overnight. they didn't move the bull's-eye. they didn't move where the ice slain rain snow line would be. now we have blizzard watches from new york city, long island, philadelphia. n you get down to baltimore and also down into d.c. that's where the heavy snow will be. winter storm warnings from memphis back to nashville, knoxville, even into greenville and charlotte as well. there will be an ice storm where you see the pink and purple. snow where you see the white. there is a line of demarcation. and it isn't little. it's big. annapolis, you might get 4 inches. gaithersburg, you'll get 30. somewhere in that line is going to be an amazing demarcation between where it's raining and snowing compared to where it's only raining and really piling up the snow. another line of demarcation is new york city. north of new york city there will be 2 inches

our intrepid meteorologist chad myers is usually out in the elements. studio right now looking out at how on the snowfall has gone, chad. >> i can finally feel my left big toe after being out there all weekend long. yeah, we're in good shape. thank you for being out there, by the way. temperatures will warm up but not enough to make any significant snow melt except in the gutter and you step off the curb and you go splosh. it is a liquid, mushy mess. new york city, had about 12 to 18 inches. obviously it was bigger than that. we had numbers over 24 in a lot of cities. european model, not even close. only 12 inches. at least for once, the american model outworked the european model. 26.8 in central park. dulles, 28.3. these are all big numbers. they are still tallying whether these were the big numbers or not. the little guys all tell us what's going on. storm offshore. i'm not worried about it honestly at all. so far offshore i think we do stay dry from it. there is still the potential to do something. for now, i'm not worried. >> chad, we know you'll k

chad myers has traveled up here to new york city before the big storm hits, so, tell us when. >> d.c.tty soon. almost now. petersburg getting snow. already snowing in richmond for quite a few hours. yeah, it's on its way. this is not a near miss. this is a direct hit. this is what we expected. this is what the models have been predicting now for 72 hours. snow into charleston, into raleigh, mixing into that ice, sleet and ice into charlotte and asheville. but 29 million people in a blizzard warning right now. that is the get home, hunk down, stay there. 29 million people. there's your blizzard warning from long island all the way down past and into d.c. and that means that even though we're talking about 24 inches of snow in baltimore and the district of columbia, maybe philadelphia and a little points to the west of there and as far north as almost new york city, almost, we will have wind gusts of 40 to 50 miles an hour. so, if you get a 2-foot snowfall, it's going to be zero in some spots where the wind has scoured it clean. and then an 8-foot drift right next to it. so, that's the

chad myers is tracking the latest on this big ol' storm.erence in d.c. from the mayor. hi, chad. >> hi, carol. fair enough, if the mayor shows up, interrupt me. no problem there. we talked about the bull's-eye over d.c. for the next storm. while show you how that matches up to the numbers on the raw scale in a second. i'll show you how there won't be a lot of precip up and down the east coast other than rain, maybe sleet mixing in. a light accumulation in new york city. this is the american model. let me get you to european model. slightly farther to the north with more snowfall into new york. not that much. still only 6 inches. the bull's-eye on far west as roanoke. spreading out the pattern a little bit. new york city on the gfs, which is american, four. european, six. philadelphia, a tie, three and three. the american model to d.c., especially west of the d.c., dulless, 33 inches of snow possible with this storm. that's why there is a blizzard watch in effect because there will be wind with it as well. heavy snow, heavy wind, low visibil

we are covering all angles of this massive storm and begin with our meteorologist chad myers who is here with me. chad, what is the forecast? it's big and it's strong. >> if i'm in new york, it's big and it's strong. you bring me up here and something bad is happening. that's why they say, why don't you ever talk about san diego? because when i talk about your town, something bad is about to happen and we have a massive winter storm here. 75 million people in the way. winter storm warnings, ice storm warnings. it's going to be a blizzard couple of days here for many, many people. something else, erin, we're going to notice. someone is going to be surprised. i know these models have been acting perfectly for days and days and days. something is going to happen that we didn't expect. we're going to look at it on tuesday and say, wow, didn't see this one coming. we have all of these computer weather models and they are basically -- that's our window to the world of what we think is coming up. take a look at the american model. they've been doing a fantastic job, if it all comes true, becaus

chad myers, this is right around what you guys were predicted on is far end of this, 20-plus inches.rn right now for new york and we heard it from the governor when i was speaking with him. is the coastal flooding tonight between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. eastern. how big a risk? >> reporter: the winds have been blowing onshore now for a couple of days, that is piling up the water along the coast. and we also have 15-foot waves on that higher water, about to really scour the beaches there along the jersey shore and also along long island, that's always been the real threat. now there will be a slight storm surge too of about four feet on these rivers in wilmington and philadelphia, and if you're in low-lying areas, you may have to watch for that water to come up. also something else we talked about this week, is 30 million people in the blizzard warning, that's 20 million pets. we want you to take care of the pets because they get cold too. dexter and halle are out here enjoying the snow, but we want them out only briefly. how are you guys? good kisses. i these he can still smell my beagle.

so let's get the very latest from cnn's chad myers who's in the cnn extreme weather center. had, where are you keeping an eye right now, who could get hit the most? >> you know, i think the bull's-eye is still d.c., baltimore and on up toward philadelphia. i mean, that's where the bull's-eye has been. >> a whole lot of people. >> a whole lot of people that really don't want to drive in any snow. and if you're talking 20 or more inches with winds at 50, i mean, it could literally shut the entire city or cities down. blizzard watch now just issued for d.c. and baltimore. that's a brand-new forecast. it means just watch out because we expect to move on to a blizzard warning, but right now we're just not that close. the storm is still too far out there. in fact, the storm is just going into colorado. blizzard warnings here, i think, will be posted for a lot of big cities up and down i-95. there is the storm. it's just that little purple cloud cover right there, fairly innocent looking right now. but it gets much worse as we work our way into the weekend. here's wednesday into thu

our meteorologist chad myers tracking the system. cnn's chris frates on the streets in washington, d.c. cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh joins us from reagan national airport. let's start with chad. let's talk about the forecast and what's going on now. >> brand-new models printed out about 30 minutes ago and i'll take you to the new thought process. it hasn't changed very much. d.c., baltimore, you're still in the 20 to 30, but i'm going to move up philadelphia probably closer to 14 to 20 now. and keep new york city somewhere still in that 8 to 10 category as we had it this morning. it is still snowing in parts of north carolina. icing into charlotte. it's the ice that's the problem. it's harder to drive on than snow. but blizzard warnings, blizzard warnings for 30 million americans. that's about 20 million pets. make sure you take care of the pets in this storm. they will need your help. they can't do it by themselves. 29 million people officially in this warning. that means heavy snow, wind speeds of 50 miles per hour, gusting

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senior meteorologist chad myers working your night crunching all. forecast models. what is it looking like for us, chad? >> again, d.c. and baltimore in the biggest part of the cone. what we would consider to be the bull's-eye of the snow. i mean, we're going to get blizzard warnings in d.c., island, and awful lot of snow and ice through d.c. and kentucky and the carolinas. is it sets up across the south this morning. moves into mississippi and atlanta as rain. snow and ice into the carolinas snow into virginia, west virginia, where you may see 36 inches of snow in some of those west virginia high country locations. other than that, ice, ice, charlotte, asheville, greenville, knoxville, lexington. big cities with big problems maybe even power lines coming down because of the ice that's accumulated. we go back to friday. moving ahead. the snow gets into new york city. this is a fine line. michaela, i'm telling you, westchester may get two inches and the points south of sandy hook may get 20. that's how quickly it will change. i'm going to slide that up and down a litt

meteorologist chad myers has a look at the latest forecast. >> blizzard conditions happening on saturday snow coming through indiana, illinois, ohio, kentucky. we're watching a storm system just developing in the rocky mountain states. by tomorrow, it starts to get into oklahoma an kansas and the gulf coast states. by saturday, it's pounding the northeast. let me move you ahead tomorrow into friday night. it begins to snow in d.c. friday about 8:00. not snowing in new york city yet. but the low is on its way up to the northeast. that snow will go all saturday long. heavy snow, i'm talking 14 inches of snow, maybe 20 in d.c. 10 to 14 in philadelphia. likely 10 inches in new york city and much less. maybe 0 to 1 in albany. there will be a quick transition to nothing to the north but what also is going to go on with this snow, heavy at times, heavy for 24 hours will be the wind. look at the wind gusts. by saturday afternoon, new york city 40. between the buildings, 60. philadelphia almost 55 mile per hour wind gusts with the snow blowing sideways. you may never see 10 inches of snow on the

chad myers, we need to prepare ourselves. >> 15 would be the lowest anywhere in the new york area wouldthe big story is the snow coming on thursday and friday. it is the first biggie of the year. i don't use that term lightly. temperatures will be cold. this is the setup. we get the cold temperatures, wind chill new york city right now 15, d.c. 9, philadelphia about the same. the cold air that's in place will allow a low pressure back over here to run up the east coast as a nor'easter on thursday and friday afternoon. will it be cold enough to snow? in most cases, the answer is yes. 37 in new york city on thursday afternoon. probably colder by friday. i believe the heaviest snow will be in the poconos, the alleghenys, all the way down to the blueridge parkway. there are spots. the model is now five days out. there are spots on the models, both european and american, we talk about those all the time that could put down 18 to 24 inches somewhere along i-95 across maybe the beltway, maybe through philadelphia, maybe the poconos, still too early to tell whether this goes this way or this wa

chad everett myers, so worried he left the south and came here new york to do the rest of the coverage>> it was too warm in atlanta, i had to get out there have, guys. what exactly changed overnight? that's the story. you all watched last night and the night before. what's new right now? blizzard warnings for new york city, in fact, almost 29 million people, million people, are under blizzard warnings at this hour as the storm starts to wind up. major ice storm in charlotte and greenville and most of the carolinas, and as that storm runs up the east coast, it changes into snow. there's still a chance of 20 to 30 inches in d.c. there's still a chance of 20 inches in no. don't get me wrong. the forecast is somewhere between eight and 12, that's up from six to ten, because the models switched slightly further to the north. slightly further into new york, on to long island, maybe even parts of rhode island and southern massachusetts, but the big story here is still bullseyes for d.c., philadelphia, baltimore right there in the middle. that's where we expect some spots could get 36 inches.