Around 47 million Americans were under a severe weather watch Wednesday as a winter storm threatened to pelt Kentucky, the Ohio Valley and southern Plains with ice and record-setting snow before moving towards New York City and Washington, D.C., NBC News reported. Heavy rain was forecast to freeze as what is expected to be the last major system of the winter, moved towards the East Coast after pounding the Rockies and northern Texas on Tuesday. Kentucky was expected to get up to 10 inches of snowfall by late Wednesday before the system moved north, dropping up to 5 inches in winter-weary Washington, D.C., New York City and Philadelphia.
