Although less intense than the harshest winter storms of the past
month, snow fell from the nation's capital to New England, with
southern sections of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts
hardest hit, according to the National Weather Service.
A winter storm warning was posted for those areas.
Three to six inches of snow was expected to accumulate around Cape
Cod and along the south coast of Massachusetts, with up to 8 inches
in some spots, before tapering off or changing to freezing rain
early on Monday, said meteorologist Frank Nocera of the Boston-area
Weather Service office.
Boston, which posted its coldest February on record last month and
its second-snowiest ever, was likely to end up with 2 to 4 inches of
new snow on Monday, on top of the 102.3 inches recorded in the city
this season, Nocera said.
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snowfall of 107.6 inches, set in 1995-96, until another expected
winter storm hit on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Winter weather advisories were posted across much of New England,
eastern New York and Pennsylvania and south into the mid-Atlantic
region.
The snow and freezing rain wreaked havoc on airline traffic into and
out of several airports. John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia international
airports in New York both reported weather-related disruptions of
flight activity on Sunday afternoon.
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The FlightAware.com website, which tracks commercial aviation
nationwide, reported more than 1,700 canceled flights on Sunday at
the eight major airports serving the Washington, Philadelphia, New
York and Boston metropolitan areas.
At least 300 more flights in and out of those airports were listed
as canceled for Monday.
New York City emergency management officials issued a travel
advisory over the weekend warning commuters to expect dangerously
icy road conditions for the morning rush hour on Monday.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman from Los Angeles; Additional reporting by
Chris Michaud; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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