Flash freeze of melting snowstorm seen icing over U.S. Northeast


  • World
  • Monday, 21 Jan 2019

Time square is seen during the rainy day in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 20, 2019.REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Plunging temperatures after a wet winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the U.S. Northeast were expected to flash freeze much of the region on Sunday and make travel dicey during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday.

"Any water that remains on the road will freeze into a sheet of ice and make conditions quite hazardous," said Rich Otto, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS).

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