Metro-area commuters paralyzed by “bomb cyclone” Kenan over the weekend can anticipate a break Monday — however issues might get dicey once more with icy roads Tuesday.
Lingering chilly temps in New York Metropolis in a single day Sunday into Monday imply that there will likely be minimal snowmelt, so come Monday morning, fundamental drags must be clear for drivers, stated Randy Atkins, a senior meteorologist at Accuweather, to the Publish.
“A few of the aspect streets which can be the final to get cleared off, these can actually have some slippery spots on them,” however fundamental roads ought to usually be OK, he stated Sunday.
However Atkins stated the tides will flip later Monday, when the day’s solar and barely hotter temps are anticipated to trigger snowmelt that can then refreeze in a single day into Tuesday.
“The Tuesday morning commute is after I could be extra involved about icy spots,” the meteorologist stated, including that slick streets might proceed by means of Wednesday.
Kenan shattered the greater than century-old calendar-day snowfall report for Central Park with 7.3 inches Saturday, or 2.6 inches greater than the earlier report of 4.7 inches for Jan. 29, 1904. The depraved climate notably slammed Massachusetts, the place 35,000 residents nonetheless didn’t have energy late Sunday afternoon.
Harmful wind chills fell beneath zero after Winter Storm Kenan pummeled the North East area on Friday and Saturday.
Massachusetts bore the brunt of the storm, with the city of Sharon getting greater than 30 inches of snow late Saturday earlier than the storm moved out, the Nationwide Climate Service stated. Robust winds continued raging and greater than 100,000 individuals misplaced energy — largely in Massachusetts.
Wind gusts as excessive as 83 mph had been recorded on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Coastal cities additionally flooded because of the wind and excessive waves churned up by the storm, however the water had largely receded by Sunday afternoon.
Movies on social media confirmed streets on the island of Nantucket underwater and waves crashing in opposition to the home windows of a constructing in Plymouth.
Components of 10 states had been below blizzard warnings sooner or later: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, together with a lot of the Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Some areas of New York Metropolis noticed greater than a foot of snow by means of Saturday — paralyzing roadways and forcing the cancellation of lots of of flights amid close to white-out situations.
Lengthy Island was hit arduous by the storm, with greater than 20 inches of snow dumped in components of Suffolk County.
In response to FlightAware, about 4,800 flights had been canceled throughout the US on Saturday. Greater than 1,450 flights had been canceled as of Sunday afternoon.
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