A severe winter storm unleashes blinding snow and punishing winds from the Mid-Atlantic to New England. Follow our live coverage. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…
The most severe conditions in eastern New England are expected to last through around 5 p.m. Saturday.
The National Weather Service is expecting snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour. Wind gusts have reached as high as 60 to 80 mph. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…
@capitalweather’s Matthew Cappucci is in Cape Cod, reporting “major blizzard conditions” with foot-and-a-half snow drifts.
He explains the meteorological phenomenon of the “bomb cyclone”:
As snow mounted across New York City, one man and his son found an easier way to get around: on cross-country skis.
“We’re Norwegian, so we invented this,” Vegard Johnsen, 43, said. “We’re sort of exploring Brooklyn by ski, like in the old days.” wapo.st/35nPOwz
Snow continues to cover Connecticut during a nor’easter that Gov. Ned Lamont described as “a wicked New England storm.”
The entire state is expected to get anywhere between eight to 24 inches of snow. Parts of the state have gotten three inches an hour. wapo.st/3s4LMRB
Boston could be experiencing one of its top five biggest snowstorms on record this weekend.
Research points to climate change as an instigator for the disproportionate amount of recent storms across the Northeast. wapo.st/3ocTdoz
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White House to distribute 400 million free N95 masks starting next week wapo.st/3FGL69M
The Biden administration plans to distribute 400 million high-quality N95 masks for adults free of charge at thousands of pharmacies and other locations starting next week, a White House official said. washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01…
U.S. officials are starting to ship masks at the end of this week; the masks will be available at pharmacies and community health centers late next week.
African Americans are moving out of the cities that their parents and grandparents fled to during Jim Crow and into the South‘s booming metropolises.
Some are calling it the new Great Migration. wapo.st/33n64O0
The percentage of Black Americans who live in the South has been increasing since 1990, and the biggest gains have been in the region’s large urban areas, according to census data. wapo.st/33n64O0
The Black population of metro Atlanta more than doubled between 1990 and 2020, surpassing 2 million in the most recent census and overtaking Chicago as the second-largest concentration of African Americans in the country after metropolitan New York. wapo.st/33n64O0
LIVE NOW: Reporters @Shannon_Liao, @LeaderGrev, @Vahn16 and @rachelerman are discussing Microsoft's historic acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the embattled publisher behind Call of Duty, Warcraft, Overwatch and Candy Crush.
Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard, the embattled Call of Duty, Warcraft publisher, for $68.7 billion washingtonpost.com/video-games/20…
Dozens of Activision Blizzard employees, many of whom work on the popular Call of Duty franchise, have not returned to work since walking out Dec. 6. washingtonpost.com/video-games/20…
In an epidemic unique to the United States, on average, at least one child is shot every hour of every day.
In 2020, the number exceeded 2,200 — by far the highest total in the past two decades — and 2021′s tally is expected to be worse. wapo.st/34E6cIV
Black kids are more than four times as likely to die in shootings as White ones, according to CDC data, though White kids are much more likely to use guns to take their own lives. wapo.st/34E6cIV
Last year, in Los Angeles, 11 were fatally shot. In Philadelphia: 36. In Chicago: 59.
Those figures don’t include the hundreds of other kids who died in accidental shootings and by suicide. wapo.st/34E6cIV
Tsunami advisory for West Coast as National Weather Service urges Americans to “move off the beach” wapo.st/3fshhPv
The U.S. tsunami advisory went into force for coastal areas of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska this morning.
It came after the powerful eruption of an undersea volcano that brought waves crashing ashore in Tonga. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…
The National Weather Service ruled out “widespread inundation” at this time but said people in or very the near the water could expect strong currents and dangerous waves. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…