A pedestrians pulls a roller bag through the snow during a snowstorm in Chicago on Nov. 29.
(Bloomberg) — New York City and the Northeast will likely see a dollop of snow late Monday into Tuesday from a storm rising up from the US Gulf coast, even as a record-breaking system pulls away from Chicago and the Midwest.
New York may get as much as 3 inches (8 centimeters) of snow to start its workday Tuesday from a system moving up the East Coast. Heavier snow totals are possible across the eastern part of the state and interior New England, said Andrew Orrison, a forecaster at the US Weather Prediction Center.
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A pedestrians pulls a roller bag through the snow during a snowstorm in Chicago on Nov. 29.Photographer: Jim Vondruska/Bloomberg
The snow in New York will change to rain later Tuesday, but as much as 12 inches of snow are possible for the Hudson Valley, western Massachusetts and parts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
“It is going to definitely get a lot more wintery Monday night and Tuesday in particular,” Orrison said. “In New York City, by rush hour on Tuesday, the snow would start to come in.”
It’s shaping up as the first significant snow of the season for New York City, Boston and possibly Philadelphia, which could lead to travel delays for commuters and put more pressure on the US air traffic system. Planes would need to be de-iced and runways kept clear as high winds sweep across the region.
A skid loader clears snow from a parking garage at O’Hare International Airport (ORD) during a snowstorm in Chicago on Nov. 29.Photographer: Jim Vondruska/Bloomberg
The system comes on the heels of a storm that dropped a record 8.4 inches on Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Saturday, the snowiest November day for the busy Midwest hub. A similar record was broken in Madison, Wisconsin, which received 9.3 inches. Across the US on Saturday 1,974 flights were canceled — the majority of those into or out of Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports, according to FlightAware, an airline tracking service.
The East Coast storm has triggered snowfall warnings across Ontario, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. Toronto may get about 2 inches of snow.
Orrison said Tuesday’s storm would rapidly exit the region but not before bringing an bounty of early-season snow to ski areas from New York’s Catskills through western Massachusetts and northern New England.
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