A new storm coming just weeks after a massive snowfall paralyzed activity in New York city is set to bring more misery to the northeastern United States, forecasters said Tuesday.
The US National Weather Service said that two low pressure system, one heading up the eastern US seaboard and another moving in from the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, are set to merge off the mid-Atlantic coast and rapidly intensify late Tuesday.
A wintry mix "is expected to become mainly snow, spreading northward into New England (late Tuesday) and becoming heavy in coastal areas from New Jersey northward," the Weather Service said on its 2100 GMT advisory.
A broad stretch of the northeastern United States, including the New York city metro area, is forecast to receive on Wednesday between eight and 16 inches (20 to 40 centimeters) of snow, the Weather Service said, "with the heaviest amounts expected over coastal southern New England."
New York city was paralyzed for two days during a massive post-Christmas blizzard, when nearly two feet (61 centimeters) of snow fell in the area December 26-28.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg took an unusual amount of flack over the city's response to the blizzard, and several local officials were fired and an investigation is underway over the mishandling of the response.
The heavy snow forced the three major area airports — John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Newark International in New Jersey — to close, forcing thousands of flights to be canceled and affecting air travel across the country.
Bloomberg said at a press conference Tuesday said that the city could received up to 14 inches (35.6 centimeters) of snow, and that the heaviest snowfall was forecast for early Wednesday.
"We recognize that we did not do the job that New Yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm," Bloomberg told reporters. "We intend to make sure that does not happen again."
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