Major winter storm heads to the Northeast

After days of frigid weather, the Northeast on Sunday braced for a whopper of a storm that could dump well over a foot of snow in many areas, create blizzard conditions and cause travel problems for the next few days.

It was already affecting coronavirus vaccinations in New York and New Jersey, with appointments for Monday needing to be canceled and rescheduled.

The storm system blanketed parts of the Midwest in the heaviest snow some places had received in several years. Chicago got almost 7 inches of snow by Sunday morning, leading to the cancellation of a couple hundred flights at the city’s two airports. In Wisconsin, snow depths in some counties near Lake Michigan had reached more than 15 inches, and the snow was still falling.

“That’s more snow than we’ve seen in a decade,” Chris Stumpf, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wisconsin, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Three to 5 inches of snow fell in central Ohio by early Sunday, making for some slippery roads. Washington, D.C., and parts of Virginia had received some snow, with up to 3 inches in some areas.