
Northeast Gets Last Brunt Of Winter Storm That Brought Ice, Snow, Cold To Much Of The U.S.
HuffPost
Overnight Sunday, the entire Lower 48 states were forecast to have their coldest average low temperature since January 2014.
The U.S. work week opened with yet more snow dumping on the Northeast under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought ice and power outages, impassable roads, canceled flights and frigid cold to much of the southern and eastern United States.
Deep snow — over a foot (30 centimeters) extending in a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered wide school cancellations Monday.
Up to two feet (60 centimeters) were forecast in some of the harder-hit places.
In Falmouth, Massachusetts, about an hour’s drive south of Boston, snow was coming down in sheets and closing down the town.
Local minister Nell Fields had to shovel out just to be able to let her dog outside. Seven inches (18 centimeters) had fallen, with up to that much more still on the way.













