For large swaths of the Northeast, Saturday arrived with a messy mix of sleet, snow and rainwith parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey receiving up to 8 inches of snow before the storm set sights on New England.
An estimated 40 million people got their first real glimpse of winter: weather advisories or warnings were in place from the Appalachians of West Virginia to Maine.
By Saturday afternoon, about 27 million people were still under a winter weather advisory or warning.
Rain pelted the coast. Snow fell on inland areas.
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By Sunday, a strong storm system originating in Alberta, Canada, will have moved down to the upper Midwest, leaving between 2 and 4 inches of snow across Minnesota and Wisconsin before heading east.
That will mean new snowfall is likely in Philadelphia and New York Sunday night into Monday, with the nation’s capital getting a mix of rain and snow.
