Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.W​inter Storm Freya is spreading snow and ice through the Northeast, impacting commutes and even prompting early-morning flash flood emergencies from the National Weather Service in West Virginia.

ARLINGTON, Va. − A wall of snow, ice and rain was sweeping across the Northeast on Thursday, the first in a series of storms forecast to wallop much of the nation's northern tier over the next several days.