A blizzard pummeled the Northeast on Monday, at one point leaving more than 40 million people under warnings as heavy snowfall and hurricane-force winds bore down throughout the region.
As much as 3 feet of snow has been reported by the National Weather Service in parts of New Jersey, Rhode Island and New York’s Long Island — and the snow is expected to continue to fall into the evening.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned that it could rank among New York City’s top 10 worst storms in 150 years.
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Connecticut all declared states of emergency, imposing travel restrictions. Meanwhile, 20 counties in New York were also under emergency declarations.
The heavy snow and high winds from the winter storm caused large-scale school closures, thousands of flight cancellations nationwide and widespread power outages in the Northeast, with at least 500,000 customers without power as of early Monday evening, according to PowerOutage.us.
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The National Weather Service in New York City posted a video on X on Monday of just how massive the winter storm is as it wallops the Northeast with heavy snow and high winds. The video was taken by the GOES East satellite.
