Updated 01:46 AM EDT, Fri, Mar 29, 2024

Winter Storm Dion Update: School Closings, Flight Delays and Icy Roads

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The season's first major snowstorm left the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast under a blanket of snow and ice on Monday.

Winter Storm Dion brought a wintery mix to the Midwest and the Plains, and dumped snow on the Mid-Atlantic region on Sunday. Over the weekend, it also brought ice to Texas before snowing on the East Coast.

The storm will ground flights and make road travel dangerous on Monday, Weather.com reports.

"Assume everything under your feet this morning is ice unless it's a treated road or surface," said Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Seidel. "You have as much as a quarter of an inch or half an inch of ice on top of the 4 inches of snow. It's coating sidewalks, driveways, cars, trees. Power outages continue to increase [Monday] morning."

Travel problems could persist; freezing rain and ice conditions remain from Missouri to Maine.

"Dion is very messy and sloppy," said The Weather Channel's winter weather expert Tom Niziol. "It doesn't take a lot of precipitation to cause those power outages. We're getting drizzle across northern and western Virginia. But that will continue to coat these surfaces in areas that are below 32 degrees. It won't be until late morning or early afternoon before it warms up above freezing."

"We'll continue to see freezing conditions on roadways in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut," said Niziol. "Sidewalks will start to glaze over with ice."

In Washington, D.C., the federal government delayed opening for two hours Monday morning. Many side streets are still icy after freezing rain fell early Monday morning.

Many flights were delayed or cancelled at Dulles International and Ronald Reagan Washington National airports. Additionally, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Mashall airport canceled flights.

D.C. schools also had a two-hour delay.

Schools in Fairfax County and Prince William County, Va. closed on Monday. There are also thousands of power outages throughout the state, in addition to West Virginia.

Schools in Montgomery County, Md. also closed this morning, and more than 19,000 customers are without power in Maryland.

Officials in Baltimore also cancelled the mayor's annual Christmas parade on Sunday due to the snowstorm.

In Connecticut, a crash involving 20 vehicles closed southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Greenwich, Conn. on Sunday. No serious injuries were immediately reported.

In Pennsylvania, an aircraft was diverted because of snow and ice from the Philadelphia International Airport to the Lehigh Valley International Airport on Sunday.

A deadly crash also occurred on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Morgantown, with more than dozen cars involved in crashes on Interstate 78.

In Philadelphia, snow began falling hours before the Lions-Eagles game, which continued throughout the game. Eagles won, 34-20.

Slippery road conditions led to a pileup in Yonkers, N.Y. About 30 people had minor injuries. Some schools in Westchester, Putnam and Orange counties had two-hour delayed openings due to wintery weather on Monday morning.

There was also a five-car pileup on the Saw Mill River Parkway.

Parts of Southern New Jersey experienced up to 11 inches of snow on Sunday, and two people died in a car crash on Interstate 78 in Hunterdon County.

There were also 38 crashes on Sunday in Milwaukee, Wis., and a 20-car pileup on Interstate 80 in Des Moines, Iowa.

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