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Powerful nor’easter kills 9, leaves 1.9 million homes without power

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More than 1.9 million homes and businesses lost power after powerful nor'easter hit Mid-Atlantic and New England over the weekend. At least 9 people were killed and numerous injured.

A significant coastal storm is bringing major coastal flooding, beach erosion, and strong to damaging winds across much of the Middle Atlantic and New England into early Saturday. At the same time, interior portions of the Northeast are also receiving heavy wet snow.

The storm brought down trees and power lines all across the Mid-Atlantic, forced cancellations of nearly 3 000 domestic flights and left more than 1.6 million customers without power.

As of 21:50 UTC, the worst affected are Pennsylvania with 427 046 customers without power, New York with 359 313, Maryland with 243 518, New Jersey with 164 554 and Virginia with 151 004.

Strong winds killed at least one person and left many injured. Baltimore County Emergency officials said a 77-year-old woman from Kingsville, Maryland died when a large tree branch fell on her.

Strong winds, heavy rain, and accumulating snow will continue across the Northeast and northern Mid-Atlantic states Friday evening, but then conditions should gradually improve as a powerful storm system pulls away from the coast Friday night.

High pressure building in behind the existing storm should keep much of the region dry through the weekend, with the exception of some light snow showers across the Lower Great Lakes and interior New England.

Weather will become increasingly active across the Great Plains late this weekend as the anomalous Western U.S. trough edges out into the Nation's mid-section.

Moisture returning from the Western Gulf should help fuel precipitation developing across Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley on Sunday, while strong winds and a swath of heavy snow are expected across the northern Plains as a surface low rapidly deepens in the lee of the Colorado Rockies.

Update:

At least nine people have been killed by this storm. 

States of emergency were declared in Massachusetts, Maryland, New York and Virginia.

At the height of the storm, more than 1.9 million people lost power. Neary 600 000 were still without electricity on Sunday night.

Featured image credit: Watertown Police, MA

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