The Saskatchewan Screamer continued its wintery wrath Monday as the deadly storm brought snowfalls, thunderstorms, and strong winds to the northeastern US.
The ongoing storm - also known as Izzy - is being blamed for more than 150,000 power outages, airport havoc, and a pair of deaths in North Carolina.
More than 1,700 US flights were cancelled Monday and about 1,500 were delayed, according to the flight tracking website Flightaware. Road travel is also a mess, with about 500 crashes reported in Virginia alone, and officials are warning people not to travel in some parts of the country.
A foot of snow was forecasted for parts of New England, New York state, Ohio and Pennsylvania through Tuesday morning.
The highest level of snow during the storm was recorded in Harpersfield, Ohio where 22.5 inches of snow landed as 40 counties within the state were under storm warnings Monday. Residents of Sherrodsville, Ohio, pulled out their measuring sticks to snap photos of 14 inches of snow piled on the ground.
Forecasters in Buffalo, New York, said the snow was falling fast, dumping more than 16 inches by 8am. The city advised people not to travel if they didn't need to on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, while some surrounding towns instituted a travel ban.
New York City and Boston were spared the heaviest snowfall, which was accumulating at higher elevations in western Massachusetts, eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New England.
A Suffolk County police car is pictured powering through a flooded area of New York on January 16 after the ongoing Saskatchewan Screamer storm flooded coastal regions on the east coast and caused snowstorms inland
A National Park Service worker shovels snow near the Washington monument on January 17 following a snow-filled night
Visitors walk past the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial as the sun breaks through the clouds in Washington, DC on January 17
As eight inches of snow accumulated in the Lower Hudson Valley, downpours drenched coastal cities, causing flooding in some regions, the National Weather Service said.
Flood warnings were in effect Monday morning for parts of New York City, including: Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan.
Snow will continue to fall at a rate of one-to-two inches per hour from northwest Pennsylvania to northern New York and into western and northern New England, NWS forecasters said.
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