New York, Boston and other cities in the northeast could be blanketed with nearly two feet (60.96 cm) of snow on Monday, as a “long duration” major winter storm headed toward the U.S. coast, the National Weather Service said.
Snow is expected to begin late Sunday night across a wide swath of the northeast, with “in excess of 20 inches of snow in parts of eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, southern New York, and into southern New England,” the NWS said in bulletin.
The storm could paralyze New York City, which as of Sunday night was forecast to be at the center of the Nor’easter’s bluster, said meteorologist Brian Hurley, of the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland.
“It’s a widespread area with 10 to 20 inches of snow coming,” Hurley said. “The sweet spot looks like it will be right around New York City.”
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