The biggest snowstorm for the Mid-Atlantic since 2019 will kick off the first full week of the New Year, where up to a foot of snow was possible across portions of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and southern New Jersey.
On Monday morning, 29 million people were under winter alerts stretching from northern Georgia up through Cape Cod.
Overnight Sunday into Monday, accumulating snow was reported across portions of northern Alabama, northern Georgia, much of Tennessee and as far south as the Florida Panhandle.
By daybreak Monday, thundersnow had already been reported in Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
The severe weather appeared to be responsible for the deaths of two children.
In rain-soaked Decatur, Georgia, a tree fell on a home and killed a 5-year-old boy on Monday morning, fire officials told NBC affiliate WXIA. In snow-battered Townsend, Tennessee, a tree…
