NEW YORK - More than 40 million people were under weather warnings in the northeastern United States on Monday, as a winter storm dumped shin-deep snow and officials in New York enforced a citywide travel ban.
The so-called "Nor'easter" pummeled the region overnight, disrupting flights and leaving hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered nonessential drivers off the road until midday Monday and shut down schools. Authorities in neighbouring New Jersey and Rhode Island issued similar travel restrictions.
Some were frustrated by the region's second major winter storm in weeks.
Meanwhile, at New York's Grand Central Station, others were admiring the city blanketed in white.
The National Weather Service said snowfall would ebb overnight, but warned that strong winds would still create blizzard conditions in some areas.
More than 5,600 flights in or out of the United States were cancelled and hundreds more delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware.
New York's three major airports, as well as Boston Logan Airport, saw the most cancellations.
Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport registered almost 83 centimetres of snow by Monday lunchtime -- a record-shattering toll for the state.