A pedestrian crosses Park Avenue with its tress covered in snow as a major winter snow storm continues in New York City and across the Northeast region of the country. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 23 (UPI) — More than 40 million people in the Northeast were under blizzard warnings Monday that led to travel bans across the Northeast, nearly a million power outages and more than 25,000 flights canceled or delayed.
A historic bomb cyclone is moving through the Northeast, having dropped historic levels of snow in states across the region, with more potentially on the way.
The massive winter storm was clearing New England on Monday evening, but Tuesday promises to be a long day of digging out and cleaning up as states from Virginia north to Vermont saw snowfalls that ranged from roughly four inches to more than three feet.
The snow was so heavy in delivery areas for The Boston Globe that the 153-year-old newspaper for the first time determined it could not deliver the paper on Tuesday morning after its delivery areas were blanketed with two to three feet of snow on Monday.
As of mid-afternoon Monday, heavy snow and hurricane-force wind guts were still expected across New England as blizzard warnings remained in effect north from southern New England through coastal Maine, the National Weather Service said. Warnings for New York City and Connecticut were, however, expected to expire by early evening.
“This appears to be the most historic blizzard we’ve received,” Josh Estrella, Providence, Rhode Island, spokesman, told The New York Times after his city received a record 33 inches of snow.
Among the highest preliminary storm totals reported by NWS were:
- Mystic, Conn., with 24 inches
- Woodside, Del., with 20 inches
- Goodwins Mills, Maine, with 13 inches
- Bishopville, Md., with 16 inches
- Berkley and Somerset, Md., with 31 inches
- Bogota, N.J., with 29 inches
- Central Islip, N.Y., with 31 inches
- Morrisville, Pa., with 21 inches
- Warwich, R.I., with 36 inches
As of 10 p.m. EDT, more than 275,000 people in Massachusetts were without power, as were nearly 60,000 in New Jersey, 41,000 in Delaware and nearly 30,000 in Rhode Island, according to Poweroutage.us.
FlightAware.com reported that, as of 10:00 p.m. EDT 19,370 flights had been delayed on Monday and 6,130 had been canceled.
CNN reported that while Boston’s public schools will stay closed on Tuesday, those in New York City will open, though freezing temperatures were expected to some level throughout the day, and public transportation in New York and New Jersey was slowly starting to get moving again on Monday night.
A pedestrian stops to photograph the snow covered tress on the streets along Park Avenue as a major winter snow storm continues in New York City on February 23, 2026. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo