The Northeast is bracing itself for snowy weather and winter storm Nemo. Friday Afternoon in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut as well as parts of New England left millions of people behind closed doors.
"The National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings for the New York City metro area, Connecticut and Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and coastal sections of New Hampshire and Maine. Some parts of New England should see the heaviest snow, while some coastal areas could be lashed by hurricane-force winds of nearly 75 mph," reported USA Today.
The Weather Channel named the blizzard "Nemo." Late Friday afternoon snow was falling in New York City and at Newark and LaGuardia Airports.
Governor Cuomo declared a state a state of emergency Friday afternoon.
"It looks like Nemo has found us," Cuomo said at 4:30 p.m. and warned that the blizzard was a "serious, severe storm."
He also added that they are not anticipating anything as great of an impact. "We are not anticipating anything like that. That's the good news,'' Cuomo said according to USA Today.
In Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick banned traffic from roads after 4 p.m. and New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan asked that residents be off the road by 7 p.m.
It is forecasted that New York and New England will be hit the hardest.
"Northeast New Jersey was bracing for up to 14 inches. Parts of the coast were expected to see waves up to 12 feet and minor to moderate flooding during high tide," reported USA Today.
"Snowfall totals will range from 8 to 16 inches across Upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania beginning Thursday night. To the east 1 to 2 feet (locally greater amounts is likely across New England. Strong winds will combine with the snowfall especially Friday night to create blizzard conditions across parts of coastal New England in particular," reported Weather.com
CNN reported that Nemo was named after Greek Roman mythology not the Pixar-Disney movie, "Finding Nemo." Nemo is a Greek boy's name that means, "from the valley" or "nobody" in Latin. "
A spokeswoman for the National Weather Service, which names tropical storms like hurricanes, said the agency has no position on the Weather Channel's decision to name winter storms," reported CNN.
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