Two Feet and Counting: Live Updates as a Bomb Cyclone Buries the Northeast

A powerful nor'easter has exploded into a bomb cyclone, delivering historic blizzard conditions across the I-95 corridor from the mid-Atlantic to southern New England. New York City is under its first blizzard warning in nearly a decade, with travel bans in effect across multiple states and over half a million customers without power.

What to Know

• Blizzard warnings are in effect for all of New York City, Long Island, most of New Jersey, southern Connecticut, Rhode Island, and the Boston area through Monday evening.

• Travel bans are active in NYC (through noon), New Jersey (extended to noon), Westchester County (through noon), Suffolk and Nassau counties, and Connecticut

• 500,000+ customers are without power from Maryland to Massachusetts

• Snow totals have already reached 2 feet in parts of New Jersey and Long Island, with 15 inches recorded in NYC and still climbing.

• Over 5,000 flights have been canceled on Monday at airports across NYC, Newark, Boston, and Philadelphia.

• Winds are gusting 55–75+ mph in some areas; 84 mph gusts recorded on Long Island.

• NYC public schools are closed — a true "old school" snow day with no remote learning

• The storm is forecast to wind down Monday afternoon across NYC/NJ, but continue through the evening in Boston and coastal New England.