- Millions of Americans are bracing for nasty weather Monday as severe storms sweep across the nation, bringing snow, wind and the risk of tornadoes.
- Mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C., face the highest risk of high winds and tornadoes, with a cold front expected to move off the East Coast by Tuesday, bringing sharply colder weather.
- The National Weather Service warned of a line of severe storms with damaging winds and several tornadoes moving across the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Ohio valleys towards the East Coast.
- The storm threat was expected to enter the Appalachians and move toward the East Coast, where “severe thunderstorms with widespread damaging winds and several tornadoes” were expected, the weather service said.
- A stretch from South Carolina to Maryland appeared most likely to experience the greatest damaging winds Monday afternoon. Many schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia closed and Maryland was set to dismiss students early.
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Powerful storms make their way across US bringing everything from tornados to snow
