- World
- U.S.
- Politics
- Washington
- Education
- Opinion
- N.Y./Region
- Business
- Technology
- Sports
- Science
- Health
- Opinion
- Arts
- Books
- Movies
- Music
- Television
- Theater
- Style
- Dining & Wine
- Fashion & Style
- Home & Garden
- Weddings/ Celebrations
- Travel
- Living
- Cartoons/Humor
- Classifieds
- Corrections
- Entertainment
- First Look
- Learning Network
- Multimedia
- NYC Guide
- Podcasts
- Public Editor
- Sunday Magazine
- T Magazine
Major storm forecast for Northeast
By CNN on February 4, 2010
(CNN) -- New Jersey and Delaware look set for a blizzard starting Friday afternoon, and Washington and Baltimore, Maryland, may experience "near-blizzard conditions" starting Friday, the National Weather Service said Thursday.
The blizzard warning for New Jersey and Delaware takes effect Friday at 4 p.m., while the winter storm warning for the nations capital and surrounding areas starts Friday morning at 10 a.m.
The expected New Jersey blizzard will make travel "extremely dangerous," the agency cautioned. The warning means "severe winter conditions are expected," while snow, strong winds and poor visibility are likely, leading to "whiteout conditions."
The storm could drop up to 24 inches of snow on southern New Jersey and 12 to 18 inches on Delaware and the central New Jersey coast, the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, said.
The blizzard warning remains in effect until Saturday at 7 p.m. It replaces an earlier winter storm watch, which is less severe.
Washington and Baltimore will be under a winter storm warning from 10 a.m. Friday until 10 p.m. Saturday.
That warning is issued when significant amounts of snow are expected or occurring.
The storm will make travel "very hazardous or nearly impossible Friday night," the agency warned.
Baltimore could receive 16 to 18 inches of snow, with isolated amounts of two feet; Washington, 12 to 16 inches with isolated amounts up to 20 inches; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eight to 12 inches.
Winter storm watches also cover most of Pennsylvania, Virginia, eastern West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and western North Carolina. Up to two inches of snow are predicted for Newark, New Jersey, and New York.
iReport: Share your photos and video with CNN
Winter storm warnings, indicating that severe weather is almost certain to occur, were issued for the southern and central Appalachians.
In the Southeast, heavy rain Thursday will cause widespread minor flooding and isolated moderate flooding across the region, forecasters said. Flood watches are in effect for southeastern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southeastern Alabama, the central Florida Panhandle and most of Georgia.
CNN meteorologist Sean Morris contributed to this report.
Readers Comments
World »
Google appears to drop censorship in China
March 16, 2010
Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google’s Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing’s censorship rules.
Politics »
McCain, Palin to campaign together in Arizona
March 15, 2010
John McCain and Sarah Palin will campaign together in Arizona next week. It will be their first public appearance together since they conceded the presidential election in Phoenix in 2008.
Business »
Report: Linux Gains Ground, Windows Stumbles
January 26, 2010
Linux inched ahead in the operating-system arena during the final month of 2009, even as Windows and Mac gave up some ground. That’s according to research firm Net Applications, which recently released its Market Share report covering operating systems in December. Linux accounted for 1.02 percent of the market in December, up from an even 1 percent the month before.
Technology »
Twitter CEO unveils \’@anywhere\’ feature
March 15, 2010
Austin, Texas (CNN) — Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced a product Monday that will further integrate Twitter feeds into other Web sites.
The "@anywhere" feature will allow users to post to Twitter from a number of other sites and to comment on each others posts without visiting Twitter.com.
"Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page — and thats just the beginning," the company wrote in a blog post.
The feature, which is expected to launch soon, will be introduced first on 13 Web sites, including The New York Times, Amazon, eBay, Bing, YouTube and The Huffington Post.
Williams made the announcement at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, which is a yearly gathering of technology enthusiasts. Twitter debuted at South by Southwest in 2007.
The @anywhere feature will make browsing the Web more seamless and help Web users find sites and videos more easily, Williams said.
"One of the things weve found with Twitter is that discovery is one of the hardest challenges," he said.
"Twitter drives tons of traffic. … It should result in more followers for a site than just sending out links does," Williams said. "It should hopefully result in more people who are your audience [and who are] using Twitter talking among themselves about your content."
Williams keynote was one of the most highly anticipated events at SXSW, but the speech was met with some negative reaction from the audience in Austin, Texas.
Twitter executives have acknowledged plans to add advertising to the site, which currently is free of ads. Many attendees said they had hoped Williams would talk about how such advertising would work on Twitter.
Instead, some audience members began filing out of the keynote address, which was held as an on-stage interview, about 40 minutes after it started. By the time the interview was over, the hall was more than half-empty.
The session also took a real-time beating on Twitter.
"Ive seen more energy at a lawn bowling tournament," one user wrote.
In an interview with CNN, Williams said Twitter doesnt have anything to announce in relation to its advertising plans.
"Unfortunately, were not in control of what people anticipate well announce," he said.
The measured reactions to the @anywhere feature didnt help the energy level at Williams talk.
"Its an interesting idea to bring Twitter out into the ecosystem, but I think at the end of the day, the intelligence [it would provide] is a little light," said John Logioco, vice president of Outbrain, which makes a widget designed to suggest content on a Web page based on a persons preferences.
"What were looking for on the Web, I think, is less noise, not more noise."
Its unclear exactly when the @anywhere feature will launch. Williams said in an interview that prototypes are being tested now.
"I dont know if we have a launch date yet," he said. "We have participating sites who are working on implementing it right now, and we have sort of prototypes working. It will depend somewhat on the sites who are implementing it when it actually launches because everybody is sort of adopting it differently."
CNNs Valerie Streit contributed to this report.
Health »
Brain scans may reveal early Alzheimer’s
March 15, 2010
People with a family history of Alzheimer’s disease often have clumps of a toxic protein in their brains even though they are perfectly healthy, researchers said on Monday.
Sports »
Vegas Advisors on Gambling
March 16, 2010
A game by game breakdown by the experts
