Overview
- Winter Weather Advisories have been expanded across the region as guidance shifted the coastal low inland, with widespread 2–5 inches in the NYC area and 3–6 inches in southern New England, including localized 6–9 inches in parts of southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
- Snow spreads in today and intensifies this afternoon and evening, with heavier bursts up to about an inch per hour before tapering late tonight into early Monday from west to east.
- Typical amounts of 1–3 inches are forecast for portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Maine’s coast, with Central New York around 1–3 inches and lingering lake-effect potential elsewhere.
- City and state crews have activated winter plans, with New York City deploying roughly 1,000 sanitation workers and more than 700 salt spreaders early Sunday and planning to double staffing as travel advisories urge drivers to slow down.
- Dangerous cold follows the storm, including wind chills of 20 to 29 below zero in southeastern Wisconsin Monday morning, as rare reports of snow reached the western Florida Panhandle and south-central Georgia earlier today.