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East Coast could get hit again this weekend
Many people in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday (Jan. 26) on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 29 deaths were reported in states afflicted with severe cold.
In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office said at least 10 people were found dead outside as temperatures plunged between Saturday and Monday morning, though the cause of their deaths remained under investigation.
Deep snow — over a foot extending in a 1,300-mile swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered school closures. According to spotters for the National Weather Service, 13 inches fell in Nelsonville as of 7 a.m. on Monday and 15.5 to 17 inches in Beacon as of 11 a.m.
Beacon lifted its parking restrictions as of noon on Monday, while Cold Spring extended theirs to 7 a.m. Wednesday as plows work to clear streets. Vehicles must be removed from Beacon municipal parking lots by 9 a.m. Thursday. Nelsonville said crews would remove snow from Division and Pearl streets on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service said Monday that a fresh influx of arctic air is expected to sustain freezing temperatures in places already covered in snow and ice. And forecasters said it's possible another winter storm could hit parts of the East Coast this weekend, according to AccuWeather.
New York City saw its snowiest day in years, with neighborhoods recording 8 to 15 inches. Though public schools shut down, roughly 500,000 students were told to log in for online lessons on Monday. (Haldane will be remote on Tuesday, with after-school activities canceled; Beacon will have a two-hour delay.) Snow days off from school melted away in New York, the nation's largest public school system, after remote learning gained traction during the pandemic.
Elsewhere in the country, the death toll included two people run over by snowplows in Massachusetts and Ohio, fatal sledding accidents in Arkansas and Texas, and a woman whose body was found covered in snow by police with bloodhounds after she was last seen leaving a Kansas bar.
Most power outages were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, especially in northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee. It was Mississippi's worst ice storm since 1994.
The U.S. had more than 11,000 flight delays and cancellations nationwide Monday, according to flightaware.com. On Sunday, 45 percent of U.S. flights were canceled, the worst day since the pandemic, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.
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By Highlands CurrentEast Coast could get hit again this weekend
Many people in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday (Jan. 26) on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 29 deaths were reported in states afflicted with severe cold.
In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office said at least 10 people were found dead outside as temperatures plunged between Saturday and Monday morning, though the cause of their deaths remained under investigation.
Deep snow — over a foot extending in a 1,300-mile swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered school closures. According to spotters for the National Weather Service, 13 inches fell in Nelsonville as of 7 a.m. on Monday and 15.5 to 17 inches in Beacon as of 11 a.m.
Beacon lifted its parking restrictions as of noon on Monday, while Cold Spring extended theirs to 7 a.m. Wednesday as plows work to clear streets. Vehicles must be removed from Beacon municipal parking lots by 9 a.m. Thursday. Nelsonville said crews would remove snow from Division and Pearl streets on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service said Monday that a fresh influx of arctic air is expected to sustain freezing temperatures in places already covered in snow and ice. And forecasters said it's possible another winter storm could hit parts of the East Coast this weekend, according to AccuWeather.
New York City saw its snowiest day in years, with neighborhoods recording 8 to 15 inches. Though public schools shut down, roughly 500,000 students were told to log in for online lessons on Monday. (Haldane will be remote on Tuesday, with after-school activities canceled; Beacon will have a two-hour delay.) Snow days off from school melted away in New York, the nation's largest public school system, after remote learning gained traction during the pandemic.
Elsewhere in the country, the death toll included two people run over by snowplows in Massachusetts and Ohio, fatal sledding accidents in Arkansas and Texas, and a woman whose body was found covered in snow by police with bloodhounds after she was last seen leaving a Kansas bar.
Most power outages were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, especially in northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee. It was Mississippi's worst ice storm since 1994.
The U.S. had more than 11,000 flight delays and cancellations nationwide Monday, according to flightaware.com. On Sunday, 45 percent of U.S. flights were canceled, the worst day since the pandemic, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.