Arctic blast expected to bring bone-chilling conditions from Midwest to Northeast
An Arctic blast coming down from Canada is expected to send temperatures plummeting this week from the upper Midwest to the Northeast.
Combined with the wind, temperatures from Minneapolis to Chicago are expected feel sub-zero on Monday for cities like Minneapolis, Chicago and Indianapolis. The bone-chilling weather is expected to make it feel like single digits in New York City on Tuesday.
More than 50 million people across the country were already on alert for winter weather on Sunday afternoon after snow fell over the weekend from Maine to Florida.
The wintry weather on Sunday along the East Coast prompted more than 400 flight cancellations nationwide and caused nearly 4,000 flights to be delayed, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.
Thunderstorms in Florida were also causing flight delays averaging up to an hour on Sunday at Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Southwest Florida International airports.
While the Sunday snow has tapered off for the South, the system is intensifying as it heads up the East Coast, bringing another round of snow to Philadelphia, New York City and Boston.
Anywhere from one to three inches of snow is expected Sunday night for most of the I-95 corridor from Philadelphia to New York and into Connecticut and interior New England.
Coastal parts of New England, including Boston and Newport, Rhode Island, could get more than three inches of snow. Light snow was already a factor in Sunday’s NFL Divisional Playoff game in Foxborough, Massachusetts, between the New England Patriots and the Houston Texans.
At the same time, another unrelated system was swinging down from Canada and into the Great Lakes on Sunday, bringing light snow to parts of the Midwest.
Blizzard warnings were in effect for a sliver of the upper Midwest, including Fargo, North Dakota, and Brainerd, Minnesota, where high winds on Sunday were causing whiteout conditions.
ABC News' Geoffrey Bansen and Ayesha Ali contributed to this report.
