Tens of millions of Americans are being kicked in the face with a blast of winter weather — with some East Coast cities buried under more snow Monday than they’ve had in a single day in decades.The frigid blast — which has encrusted a swath of the central US from Kansas to Nebraska through Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio in snow and ice — arrived on the East Coast on Sunday night.It blew into the Washington, DC, area with uncharacteristically heavy snowfall, more than 5.5 inches, that persisted through Monday.Maryland was particularly hard hit, with around 7 inches of snow falling in Annapolis as of Monday afternoon — the most snow the city has seen in a single day since it was dumped with 16 inches back in 2000, according to Fox Weather.Of course, the snowfall in Maryland would be considered a dusting in some areas such as upstate New York’s Oneida County, where the town of Lee Center got slammed with more than 6 feet of the white stuff since the weekened, according to the Utica Observer Dispatch.But cities in Delaware and southern New Jersey joined Annapolis in seeing the most single-day accumulation in years, with upwards of 9 inches in some places.New York City and the rest of the tri-state area were spared the brunt of the storm, with only about half an inch of snow falling in Central Park by midday and not much more accumulation expected later.The sweeping storm conditions put more than 60 million Americans under winter weather advisories across their 2,100-mile path and led to blizzard conditions with high winds that left about 300,000 without power.Roadways were left perilous across most of the storm’s path.In Missouri, 600 cars were stranded in the snow over the weekend, while hundreds of accidents were reported across Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, and Virginia.Swaths of the interstate in Kansas — where more than 14 inches of snow fell — were shut down over the dangerous conditions as Gov.
Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency Monday.“We ...