Heavy snow set to blanket Midwest on first weekend of spring

millions of folks in the Northeast are starting to clean up after Saturday's downpours left homes and roads flooded and now a first weekend of spring that'll feel more like winter with up to a foot of snow possible today in the midwest NBC's Jesse kersch is in Minneapolis this morning where they are bracing for it hey Jesse good morning hie good morning w we think of spring we're probably not thinking of snow and yet here it is coming down again in the Twin Cities this is just the beginning of w

hat we're expecting we'll cap off a rough weekend of weather parts of New York State as well as parts of New England already seeing more than 2 feet of snow this weekend and this morning almost 200,000 customers are reportedly without power in Maine with thousands more in the dark in New Hampshire other parts of the region had intense rain winds and flooding as well on Saturday alone Philadelphia was pummeled by more than 3 Ines of rain and flooding the National Weather Service says that was the

wetest day in March for the City of Brotherly Love going back to the 1870s meanwhile today 12 million people are facing winter weather alerts farther west including heavy snow from the dtas to Minnesota where at times strong winds could cause blizzard-like conditions we're expecting steady snowfall through Tuesday and look at that some areas could get 18 in of snow on top of all of that to the South 53 million are under wind alerts and there's also the lookout for some severe weather that means

the potential for tornadoes for some people as well lots to watch out for this week Jesse bundled up there for us thank you very much hey thanks for watching don't miss the Today show every weekday at 11:00 a.m. eastern 8 Pacific on our streaming Channel today all day to watch head to today.com allay or click the link right here