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.

Storm Freya whipped from the Midwest into the Northeast Thursday, coating roads in slick ice from Baltimore up the I-95 corridor, making for dangerous commutes and forcing school closures and delayed openings.