Unusual snowstorm in America

Some areas in New Jersey and Massachusetts are under 40cm of snow when the US east coast is caught in a seasonal snowstorm.

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The US Weather Agency (NWS) issued a warning that snow storms would cause traffic to be affected. More than 2.2 million people in the east coast from Maryland state to Massachusetts do not have electricity for snow.

Snow covered white pumpkin in the fair
agriculture in Maryland state, USA. (Photo: AFP)

The area of ​​Massachusetts Berkshires, northwest of Connecticut and southern New Hampshire is expected to catch the most snow."Snowfall will be extremely wet, sticky and chaotic," BBC quoted spokesman Chris Vaccaro of NWS. "It will not be as dry and spongy as usual."

The snow is about 40cm thick in West Milford, New Jersey, 85km from New York and 36cm in Plainfeld.

In New York Central Park, snow falls 3cm thick, a record in October. The city is also affected by rain. Flights from Kennedy and LaGuardia airports in New York are also delayed until late afternoon. Flights at Newark Airport in New Jersey were also not possible due to heavy rain and wind.

"This situation is unusual and dangerous. It feels like we are in the middle of winter," John LaCorte, an NWS employee in Pennsylvania, told the AP . He added that the last time Pennsylania was inspired by this big and early snowstorm was in 1972.

In 1979, New England state also snowed 20cm thick in October.

Meteorologist Bill Simpson said the normal weather would return in the middle of next week."That doesn't mean our winter will be terrible , " he said.