winter storm hits mid-Atlantic region

This image shows the strom system on Dec. 10, 2013 at 1445 UTC.

According to the National Weather Service snow is falling from Tennessee Valley into the Mid-Atlantic and New England Tuesday . The fast moving system is creating swath of 2 to 7 inches of snow from southwest Virginia to the New England coast. Heavy Lake Effect snows will also impact the Lower Great Lakes into later this week, with up to two feet of accumulation.

Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project

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