Mike Seidel
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Rhode Island, they have topped the infamous blizzard of 1978, 32.8 inches and counting.
New York City, their ninth biggest storm on record.
And out here on the eastern end of Long Island, we've had two to two and a half feet of snow combined with winds up to hurricane force.
It's going to go downhill very quickly.
The heavier snow is right offshore.
It's going to rotate in here.
We've got blizzard warnings up now for over 40 million people, and we've got several states.
The entire state is in a blizzard warning.
Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Jersey.
This storm is going to, what we say, bomb out.
In fact, rapid deepening off the Carolina coast.
Then it comes up as a big nor'easter.
Pressure drops, winds increase.
Here on the western tip of Long Island, we could see gusts over 70, even 75 miles an hour, 55 to 60 mile an hour wind gusts from the Delaware coast all the way through the Jersey Shore up to Cape Cod, Nantucket, those areas too.
It was a wild and loud night across the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
50-plus mile an hour wind gusts and then heavy snow in addition to that wind near blizzard conditions.
At 530 this morning, near whiteout conditions.