A snow storm has hit eastern Canada and north-eastern areas of the US, killing at least two people and disrupting air travel.
The snow, high winds and freezing rain grounded flights and made driving treacherous. Roads were slick
A bulldozer clears deep snow in a parking area in Warren, Vermont, US.
with snow and ice, and airports reported hundreds of flights canceled.
Upstate New York received as much as a foot of snow, while the storm spared New York City, leaving only a coating of icy slush. Thousands of people were without power in New Jersey, Long Island and parts of Connecticut.
In New England, about 8 inches of snow fell around Boston, though the precipitation changed to rain across coastal areas by afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
It dropped more than 10 inches across parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Forecasters said high winds would continue through the evening and parts of northern New England could receive as much as 14 inches of snow.
They warned that with sub-freezing temperatures expected overnight, much of the rain that fell on the region late in the day would turn to ice.
The wintry blast came a week after a Midwest ice storm was blamed for 13 deaths and cut power to hundreds of thousands.
O'Hare International Airport, Chicago's largest, was hit with nearly 200 cancellations yesterday due to winter weather, after just over 200 stricken flights on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Chicago airport system said.
All three major New York airports remained open, but reported significant flight delays. Hundreds of cancellations left passengers scrambling to find alternate means of reaching their destinations.
Boston's Logan International Airport halted all flights briefly to allow officials to plow its runways and airlines canceled about 300 flights, said airport spokeswoman Lisa Langone. By afternoon, the runway was operating two of its three runways, she said.