(Bloomberg) — New York's first March commute may end up being one of its worst of the season as another winter storm threatens to start the work week with snow, sleet and rain throughout the U.S. Northeast.
A system that's bringing rain to drought-stricken California will make its way across the U.S., possibly laying down snow from Kansas City to Boston this weekend, said Tom Kines, a meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania.
“It's a good thing for California and then it stops being a good thing once it gets out of the Rockies,” Kines said. “We're pretty confident that there is going to be a storm bringing a significant amount of precipitation. The big question for the big cities is how much will fall as snow.”
Wave after wave of winter storms have canceled tens of thousands of flights, frozen pipes, collapsed roofs and disrupted business across the U.S. Insured losses reached more than $1.5 billion since Jan. 1, according to the Insurance Information Institute in New York.
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