Winter storm live: One dead after powerful nor’easter as more snow forecast this week

Forecasters in the Twin Cities shared a photo on Wednesday of a rare sight: snow this winter in Minnesota.

The picture showed a highway near to Canby, a town around 150 miles west of Minneapolis.

Central Minneapolis is forecast to see its largest snowfall since Halloween on Wednesday.

Valentine’s Day will bring much more tranquil weather and a “chance to dry out” for many areas in the northeast, New England and the south after a strong nor’easter.

However temperatures along the eastern seaboard will be colder than normal on Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.

More wintry conditions were expected later in the week. A storm was expected to begin today in northern parts of central states before quickly moving east over the midwest by tonight, and reaching the Great Lakes on Thursday, bringing several inches of snow.

The system will then shift into the northeast on Friday with another round of light to moderate snow, NWS said.

In the northern plains and midwest, Arctic air coming south from Canada will see temperatures drop below normal.

On the west coast, a new storm system is coming onshore on Wedneday from the Pacific Ocean, with moderate rain to heavy rain expected along the Northwest coast and extending south down into northern California.

By Thursday, this latest atmospheric river will have moved well inland, bringing heavy snow to the Cascades, Sierra Nevada, and also northern Rockies. Snow from this system will move farther east to the northern plains on Friday bringing new winter weather threats into the weekend.

Tom Suozzi’s victory in New York on Tuesday reverted a Republican-held seat in the US House of Representatives back to Democratic control.

Mr Suozzi defeated Republican Mazi Pilip by 54 per cent to 46 per cent in the special election held after disgraced Republican Rep. George Santos stepped down.

The Democrat, 61, was declared the winner just after 10pm in a resounding victory with a little over 50 per cent ballots counted, defying polls that had projected the race would go down to the wire.

Residents in the district, comprising eastern Queens and the Long Island suburbs of Nassau County, had to contend with a heavy snowstorm to get to polling stations.

Hundreds of flights were cancelled on Tuesday, mostly along the East Coast, and more stormy conditions are expected in different pockets of the country as the week rolls on.

Airlines can’t control the weather, but they are still required to provide refunds for customers whose flights are canceled.

Here’s what to know about your rights, and what to know when cancellations start piling up.

The National Weather Service for the US eastern region reported that despite significant snowfall on Tuesday, all locations were running below normal snowfall totals for the season.

Syracuse, New York, a city that typically experiences heavy snowfall, is 61 inches below average snowfall through 13th February, NWS said. Erie, Pennsylvania is 56 inches below average.

New England was hit by bitterly cold blasts on Wednesday with 25-40 mph gusts creating wind chills in the teens and 20s, the National Weather Service in Boston said.

A fast-moving system that is expected to arrive by Thursday evening/early Friday is forecast to bring light snow with a dusting in Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts, and a possible three inches for inland Massachusetts.

Mayor Eric Adams thanked New Yorkers for heeding the City’s warning over the treacherous weather and limiting their time on the roads.

Posting a video from outside his old school in Queens, Mr Adams praised the New York Santitation Department for their snow-plowing, and said officials would continue to monitor the situation.

“Thank you New Yorkers, we are going to plow through this,” he said.

The National Weather Service office for the Eastern region shared the highest snowfall totals on Tuesday afternoon.

Farmington, Connecticut -15.5 inches

Sussex, New Jersey – 15in

Shohola, Pennsylvania – 15in

Foster, Rhode Island – 10in

Dudley, Massachusetts – 8.8in

Mount Storm, West Virginia – 8in

Sabillasville, Maryland – 8in