A blizzard is bearing down on the Northeast this morning, and the same storm system dropping nearly 2 feet of snow in Boston is pushing Arctic air as far south as Macon.
The animation below depicts the visible satellite imagery of the New England snow storm as well as the “wrap around” cloud cover moving south through the Great Lakes and into the Southern U.S.
Amongst the cloud cover this morning, a few snow flurries were spotted throughout Cobb, Bartow, Cherokee, and Hall counties.
The animation below illustrates the visible satellite imagery depicting the cloud cover, with light snow flurries mainly along and west of I-575.
The driving force between the New England snowstorm — as well as the intense blast of Arctic air — is the jet stream, located about 30,000 feet or 5.5 miles above the ground…