US battered by storm
The snowstorm is blamed for the deaths of at least eight people in road accidents
The deadly winter storm that clobbered a swath of the US Midwest and East Coast this past weekend is blowing out to sea, but it has left as much as 33cm of snow in Washington, DC and Virginia, and frigid arctic air parked over New England.
All Washington DC federal offices were closed on Monday, but train and bus services in the metro DC area were set to resume after being shut down on Sunday, officials said.
“There’s some digging out to do,” Jim Hayes, a forecaster with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Centre in College Park, Maryland, said early on Monday.
“In Virginia, DC and Maryland, 15 to 30cm of snow fell with some places getting 33cm inches,” he said.
Air traffic at Ronald Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport was returning to normal.
Early on Monday, fewer than 400 flights were canceled in affected areas and about 1,600 were delayed, according online flight tracking site Flightaware.
At the height of the storm on Sunday, more than 1,600 flights were cancelled in and out of US airports. The snowstorm is blamed for the deaths of at least eight people in road accidents.
Winter storm warnings for millions of Americans in 10 states, as well as Washington, were being lifted early on Monday from Colorado to the East Coast, Hayes said. –