INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Midwest on Tuesday and headed east, causing hundreds of flight cancellations and closing schools, and was expected to tangle New York and
Boston's evening rush hour.As much as 1 foot (30 cm) of snow was predicted for inland parts of New England, as well as up to 4 inches (10
cm) in New York City and up to 5 inches (13 cm) in Boston before turning to freezing rain in the late afternoon, said meteorologist Dan
Petersen with the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland."The big cities along the coast are going to have a pretty quick
changeover from snow to sleet and freezing rain and eventually rain," Petersen said in a phone interview
"The danger of snow changing to freezing rain is people slip and slide quite a bit and that's the cause of accidents when people lose
control of their cars."The storm by early morning had iced over Illinois and Michigan and was moving through Wisconsin into northern
Pennsylvania and southwestern New York state
The widening storm was expected to reach as far south as northern Delaware and Maryland, Petersen said.More than 1,600 flights into and out
of the United States were canceled on Tuesday, most of them at airports in Chicago, New York and Boston, according to FlightAware.com.Ahead
of the storm, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency, and hundreds of schools were closed for the day.(Except for the
headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
