Philadelphia region digging out from winter storm | Live Updates

The New Jersey Department of Transportation has issued an Emergency Traffic Regulation Order that temporarily lowers all posted speed limits to 35 miles per hour on Interstate and State highways in New Jersey, starting at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, January 25.

The speed limit reduction applies to:

• All Interstate highways in New Jersey

• All U.S. and State highways in New Jersey

• The New Jersey Turnpike

• The Garden State Parkway

• The Atlantic City Expressway

All motorists are encouraged to avoid unnecessary travel on Sunday and Monday.

Blue Mountain Resort in Carbon County announced on social media that the slopes will be closed on Sunday.

Winter sports enthusiasts are not happy with the news. They posted countless replies wondering why a ski resort would ever close because of snow.

A few hours after the announcement, the ski resort explained its decision.

"We do not have lodging here at Blue Mountain. If we have a guest who gets here early, maybe when the storm wasn't that bad, and it picks up in intensity later in the day, now they're stranded. We have nowhere to lodge these folks, and we will not put our guests in that situation," the resort said.

Blue Mountain will reopen at noon on Monday.

The resort said it's opening later than normal to give crews time to clear the parking lots.

The first flakes from the major winter storm are just hours away.

On Saturday, Meteorologist Brittany Boyer and anchor Walter Perez answered some of your questions ahead of the storm. If you missed it, you can watch it in the video player below.

Snow emergencies have been declared in Philadelphia and in several suburban Pennsylvania communities ahead of Sunday's major winter storm.

The declarations require vehicles parked along snowemergency routes to be moved so road crews can clear streets efficiently during and after the storm.

Click here to see the full list of towns under a snow emergency.