Storm drops heavy snow around Northeast as Pacific Northwest braces for more rain

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A play tempest sent temperatures plunging good beneath zero successful the Midwest and dumped dense snowfall connected parts of the Northeast connected Sunday, creating galore airdrome delays and slick roads arsenic the Pacific Northwest braced for much rain after days of flooding and mudslides.

Approximately 63 cardinal Americans are nether a acold upwind advisory, and astir 11 cardinal are nether a frost informing — chiefly successful the Gulf Coast states, wherever specified debased temperatures are rare.

The tempest began Saturday and brought up to respective inches of snowfall successful the New York-New Jersey metro area, the region's archetypal important snowfall of the season. Light snowfall fell implicit parts of New England. The tempest was expected to weaken by Sunday night, followed by arctic conditions with overnight windchill temperatures astatine oregon plummeting beneath zero degrees (-18 Celsius).

As frigid aerial shifts from the Great Lakes into the East Coast, determination volition beryllium dangerously debased temperatures, according to forecasters. Some places could dip down to grounds levels.

Crews and contractors were retired plowing and treating roads successful New Jersey, wherever the authorities Department of Transportation advised radical to debar unnecessary travel. Salt spreaders and plows worked overnight to wide snowfall from roads and motorcycle lanes, the New York City Department of Sanitation posted online. The authorities of Pennsylvania temporarily reduced velocity limits connected interstates to 45 mph (72 kph).

There were implicit 1,000 flights delayed and much than 100 cancellations astatine U.S. airports owed to the weather, according the formation tracking tract FlightAware.

Meanwhile, a blast of arctic aerial swept southbound from Canada and into parts of the bluish U.S. The National Weather Service successful Chanhassen, Minnesota, said Sunday was the coldest greeting of the play truthful far. It was -10 degrees (-23 C) astatine Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, with temperatures arsenic debased arsenic -22 (-30 C) successful immoderate communities. In the Chicago area, upwind chills of -20 to -25 were reported Sunday morning.

In the Pacific Northwest, which has seen catastrophic flooding that has forced thousands of radical to evacuate, much rainfall and upwind were expected successful the portion arsenic aboriginal arsenic precocious Sunday, forecasters said.