Northeast deals with fresh snow after Midwest gets blanketed

By MARK PRATT and DENISE LAVOIE The Trucker News Services

2/2/2015

BOSTON Another winter storm inflicted fresh misery on the Northeast on Monday, causing several deaths and accidents and the cancellation of flights, classes and major court cases a day after it dumped up to a foot-and-a-half of snow on the Chicago area and blanketed much of the Plains and Midwest.

Here's how the storm is playing out:

In two of several weather-related deaths, a truck driver and a 62-year-old woman were killed in separate traffic accidents on snowy roads in Nebraska while in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office said a 64-year-old man with a history of cardiac problems was found dead Sunday in his garage after shoveling snow.

The snowstorm, which brought 17.5 inches of snow to O'Hare International Airport by early Monday, was expected to deepen off the southern New England coast, bringing accumulations of 9 to 16 inches to Boston and nearly as much to Hartford, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island, southern New Hampshire and Vermont places still digging out from up to 3 feet dumped by last week's blizzard.

"For New Englanders, we're used to this during the winter," said Matt Doody of the National Weather Service. But he cautioned that both the morning and evening commutes would be messy.

Snowfall totals in New York state were to vary from 6 to 10 inches in Buffalo and Binghamton and 8 to 14 inches in Albany. A winter storm warning is out for more than 20 counties, with up to 16 inches forecast for the eastern Catskill Mountains, and northern and central Taconics.

Many Long Island schools delayed opening or closed due to a forecast of snow and freezing rain. The storm was expected to dump between 3 to 5 inches of snow north of the Long Island Expressway and slightly less to the south.

The Philadelphia area received about an inch of snow before the precipitation changed to rain. Forecasters expected 3 to 5 inches to fall in the Lehigh Valley, and 5 to 11 inches in northern Pennsylvania.

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Northeast deals with fresh snow after Midwest gets blanketed