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- A huge winter storm hit the US this weekend, bringing heavy snow and ice to millions.
- The storm spread more than 2,000 miles from New Mexico to Maine.
- Here's where the storm is hitting hardest.
A massive winter storm is battering the US, bringing heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain to millions of Americans.
The storm, which has stretched over 2,000 miles from New Mexico to Maine, hit the south-central US on Friday night and is now pummeling the Northeast.
As snowfall picked up in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced schools would operate remotely on Monday due to the weather.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had previously announced that "all state employees" were also authorized to work remotely to start the week.
"I encourage other employers to do the same, just to keep people off the roads and think about this," she said.
Here's where else the storm is set to hit.
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Heavy snow is continuing to fall across large parts of the northeastern US.
"The storm will produce heavy snow over the Northeast and patches of rain/freezing rain over parts of the Mid-Atlantic. Snow will also develop along the Appalachians on Monday," the National Weather Service said in a Monday morning update.
The Great Lakes region is also set for a fresh wave of snow, travelling south from Canada, the NWS said Monday.
As of around 6:30 a.m. ET on Monday, states including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas, and Missouri remained under an extreme cold weather warning. In Arkansas, some areas recorded around seven inches of snowfall through Friday night into Saturday.
States including Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio remain under a winter storm warning.
The agency said power outages, tree damage, and dangerous travel conditions are also likely across parts of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic due to freezing rain and lingering icing.
Major cities in the weather system's path include Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston.
More than 820,000 customers from New Mexico to Virginia are without power as of Monday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.
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Moving forward, the NWS said heavy snowfall is likely to lead to "widespread travel disruptions and closures" that could last several days.
Travel was hit hard this weekend, with airlines canceling thousands of flights across Saturday and Sunday, and cancellations continuing into Monday.
On Monday, over 3,700 flights were canceled as of around 7 a.m. ET, with all three New York airports canceling more than 40% of flights. Boston Logan was the worst-affected airport on Monday, canceling 60% of flights.
Monday's disruption followed the worst single day of flight cancellations since the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 11,500 US flights canceled on Sunday, according to data from flight-tracking website FlightAware.
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Texas and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International were the worst-affected airports on Sunday, per flight-tracking site FlightAware.
Washington DC's Ronald Reagan National Airport said airlines had cancelled all flights on Sunday.
In an update issued at 11 p.m. ET, the airport said that with precipitation ending, flight operations "should gradually increase beginning on Monday."
Many airlines are waiving rebooking fees for flights to and from affected regions.
This is a developing story. Please keep checking back for updates.