A storm that scurried across the eastern United States Sunday will dump several inches of snow across the Northeast Monday morning before moving offshore.
New York City could be covered in 6-8 inches of snow, much of it coming overnight and into the early morning commute on Monday.
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced he'll be deploying state resources, including thousands of plow trucks, specialized law enforcement vehicles and utility workers, to areas expected to be hit with snow.
"We have learned from experience that it is better to be over-prepared in these situations -- if you're not prepared before the storm, it is too late," he said in a statement.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said parts of the city could get "10 inches of snow or more." He said the city is expecting the "biggest snow accumulation we've had all year."
"This is going to be a serious storm," de Blasio said Sunday. "People should be ready for really tough conditions in the morning. When we get to early morning hours we could see snow coming in at the pace of 1 to 2 inches per hour."
He said all New York City public schools will be closed Monday and urged drivers to stay off the roads and take mass transit if they must go out.
Across the river, New Jersey also is expecting several inches of snow by Monday morning. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency, asking drivers to "stay off the roads so that we are able to deploy available resources to clean the snow."
Public schools in Jersey City and Boston will also be closed on Monday, the schools districts said.
The weather system that will blanket cities across the East Coast began developing Saturday, bringing snow to the Central Plains and putting millions of people under winter weather alerts from Colorado to Maine.
As the storm leaves the northern East Coast behind early Monday morning, the National Weather Service said it will be dropping snow at a rate of one inch per hour. Nearly 43 million people are under a winter weather warning, CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford said.
Warnings in Colorado
The storm may well have departed from the Midwest but some severe weather conditions still linger.
The main issue for most of the Midwest this week will be the cold, Shackelford said.
"There are up to 50 potential record cold highs for Monday," he said.
In Colorado -- parts of which saw nearly 4 inches of snow --- a warning has been extended to multiple mountain ranges as the snowfall created multiple dangerous avalanche conditions.
Late Sunday, an avalanche closed I-70 eastbound between Copper Mountain and Frisco, Colorado, according to Amy Ford, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Ford said it was the second avalanche on Sunday in the same general area.
She said the interstate was shut down while crews cleaned up. While there were cars in and around the avalanche, Ford said she didn't think anyone was injured. The highway has since reopened.
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