A powerful blizzard slammed the Northeast on Monday, putting more than 40 million people under weather alerts as heavy snow and hurricane-force winds swept the region.
Parts of New York City received 19 inches of snow, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned the storm could rank among New York City’s 10 worst in the past 150 years.
Providence was hit especially hard, with 32.8 inches as of 1 p.m. yesterday, a single-storm record that broke the mark set in 1978.
US airports logged more than 20,000 delays and 6,000 cancellations, according to FlightAware, largely across the greater NYC area, Boston, Philly, and Washington, DC.