Officials have activated emergency preparedness as another winter storm sweeps the Northeast this week.
The country survived a polar vortex earlier this month that partially froze Niagara Falls, and winter definitely isn't over.
"They are going to have quite a snowstorm," Kevin Roth, a lead meteorologist with the Weather Channel, told NBC News. "By this evening, all four cities from Philadelphia to Boston could face a pretty bad commute home. We're expecting a good six to 10 inches. It will be snowing pretty hard."
According to The Associated Press, students and lawmakers are both getting time off due to the storm. Schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky plan to send students home early Tuesday or to stay closed an extra day after the holiday. The federal government has closed its Washington office, and both chambers of Delaware's General Assembly canceled Tuesday sessions.
The storm could bring as much as 12 inches of snow on Tuesday to Philadelphia and New York City, the National Weather Service told the AP. Wind temperatures could drop to 10 degrees below zero.
"Every once in while these little winter storms go bananas and we think this might be the one," Roth told NBC.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for New York City and the surrounding areas from noon on Tuesday until Wednesday morning. The city has activated all of its emergency preparation systems, according to NBC.
Altogether, 17 states, mostly in the Midwest and North, have declared energy emergencies.
Even after the snow subsides, temperatures will remain chilly from Maine to the Plains, Kevin Noth of the Weather Channel told NBC.
"They have already dropped 30 to 40 degrees across the Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesota and 35 in Chicago," he said. "That cold air is going to drop into the South and then there's another surge of cold air coming on Friday."
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