Heavy Snow Aims for Chicago, New York as Winter Comes East
- Snow to start in New York late Sunday and continue overnight
- Washington, Philadelphia and Boston all face a plowable event
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New York faces “a beast” as more than a foot of snow could fall across the city from a storm that has already blanketed Chicago and begun spreading across Washington, snarling road and air travel.
Manhattan’s Central Park, northern New Jersey, and parts of the lower Hudson Valley could get from 12 to 18 inches of snow starting late Sunday and continuing through Monday, said Jay Engle, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Upton, New York.
“Monday is going to a beast,” Engle said. “The intense snow looks to start about 4 or 5 a.m. We’re looking for snow that will be pretty heavy at times throughout the day.”
Winter storm warnings and watches, as well as weather advisories, stretch from Minnesota to Maine, according to the National Weather Service. Chicago got as much as 9 inches in some areas as the storm passed through on Saturday. A broad area from Washington to northern New England will get from 6 to 12 inches of snow, with some areas getting more as the storm makes its way up the East Coast, said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster with the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
Large winter systems commonly snarl road, rail, and air traffic, as well as spark power outages. At least 550 flights around and into the U.S. were canceled Sunday as of 7:30 a.m., with another 380 set to be scrubbed Monday, according to Flight Aware, an airline tracking service.