Storm Heads Toward Northeast After Blanketing Midwest

February 02, 2015
Chicago

BOSTON (AP) â€” A winter charge is bringing a ire to a Northeast on Monday, causing a termination of flights, classes and vital justice cases a day after it dumped adult to a foot-and-a-half of sleet on a Chicago area and blanketed most of a Plains and Midwest.

The continue complement altered solemnly east overnight by a Ohio Valley into Pennsylvania and western New York state. Then it went into New England, where residents had distinguished a New England Patriots’ Super Bowl feat days after digging out from a large charge that brought from 1 to 3 feet of sleet to some areas.

Here’s a outlook:

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THE STORM

The sleet storm, that had brought 17.5 inches of sleet to O’Hare International Airport by early Monday, was approaching to lower off a southern New England coast, bringing accumulations of 9 to 16 inches to Boston and scarcely as most to Hartford, Providence, southern New Hampshire and Vermont.

“For New Englanders, we’re used to this during a winter,” pronounced Matt Doody of a National Weather Service. But he cautioned that both a morning and dusk commutes would be messy.

Snowfall totals in New York state were to change from 6 to 10 inches in Buffalo and Binghamton and 8 to 14 inches in Albany. A winter charge warning is out for some-more than 20 counties, with adult to 16 inches foresee for a eastern Catskill Mountains, and northern and executive Taconics. Many Long Island schools have behind opening or are sealed due to a foresee of sleet and frozen rain. The charge is approaching to dump between 3 to 5 inches of sleet north of Long Island Expressway and somewhat reduction to a south.

The Philadelphia area perceived about an in. of sleet before a flood altered over to rain. Forecasters approaching about 3 to 5 inches to tumble in a Lehigh Valley and 5 to 11 inches in northern Pennsylvania.

Northeast Ohio, including Cleveland, could get 4 to 9 inches and Toledo and a northwest partial of a state were headed for 3 to 7 inches.

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TRAVEL AND OUTAGES

More than 2,300 flights were canceled Monday with about a seventh of them during Boston’s Logan Airport. On Sunday, some-more than 2,000 flights were canceled in a Midwest, a immeasurable infancy of that were in or out of Chicago’s dual airports.

Public officials via New England announced parking bans forward of a charge so crews could keep a roads clear.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker pronounced state supervision is formulation a unchanging work day on Monday though he speedy commuters to take open transportation.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf pronounced a state Department of Transportation had 2,250 trucks, 235 let trucks and 200 additional trucks on stand-by along with 5,400 apparatus operators prepared to transparent roads.

In New Jersey, non-essential state employees have been told to news as partial of a behind opening, while essential employees were to follow unchanging schedules.

Amtrak designed to work a normal news though with some modifications. It pronounced it would have additional crews accessible to mislay downed trees or make infrastructure repairs.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio pronounced residents should be prepared for a snowy and icy commute. The city competence get 2 to 4 inches of sleet and ice is possible.

The Illinois Department of Transportation dispatched 350 trucks to transparent and salt Chicago-area roadways forward of Monday’s morning rush hour, and a city pronounced late Sunday that it was promulgation out 150 some-more pieces of complicated apparatus for highway work.

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DELAYS, CANCELLATIONS AND OUTAGES

The sirocco is loitering dual of a nation’s biggest justice cases â€” a murder hearing of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez and jury preference in a sovereign genocide chastisement hearing of Boston Marathon bombing think Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Proceedings were approaching to resume Tuesday.

Across a country, hundreds of open schools canceled classes due to a risk of children traveling. Many prejudiced schools and colleges did a same.

The continue led to energy outages, including roughly 10,000 ComEd business in Illinois on Sunday evening. That series had been cut to 5,500 by midnight CST and was down to 2,500 statewide early Monday.

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SUPER BOWL TRAVEL

Officials contend Super Bowl transport is approaching to assistance make Monday a busiest day ever during Phoenix’s categorical airport, though snowstorms elsewhere could means delays.

Sky Harbor International Airport pronounced Sunday night that since of winter continue on a East Coast, flights to Boston and New York competence be behind Monday morning.

In a arise of Sunday’s large game, airfield mouthpiece Julie Rodriguez says Monday is approaching to be a busiest day ever during Sky Harbor.

The Transportation Security Administration says about 80,000 passengers are approaching to depart, twice a normal volume for an normal day.

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DEATHS, INJURIES

Ohio officials pronounced a Toledo military officer died while shoveling sleet in his drive Sunday and a city’s 70-year-old mayor was hospitalized after an collision while he was out checking highway conditions.

The officer, who was not named, died of an apparent heart attack. City and medical officials contend Mayor D. Michael Collins was hospitalized after he had a heart conflict and his SUV crashed into a pole.

In Nebraska, a lorry motorist and a 62-year-old lady were killed in apart trade accidents on snowy roads. In Wisconsin, a Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office pronounced a 64-year-old male with a story of cardiac problems was found passed Sunday in his garage after shoveling snow.

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Associated Press writers Scott McFetridge in Des Moines, Iowa; Jeff Baenen in Minneapolis; Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska; Verena Dobnik in New York; and David N. Goodman in Detroit contributed to this report.

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Tareen reported from Chicago.

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