Brenda Snyder, of Shamokin, Pa., walks her dog, Cliff, around two snowmen on a park plot along Market Street in Shamokin on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015.(Photo: Larry Deklinski, The News Item, AP)
A fast-moving winter storm bringing a mix of sleet, rain and snow was aiming its hardest punch at coastal Massachusetts before moving quickly out to sea late Saturday.
But the areas that dodged the worst of the storm were bracing for another round of winter weather set to hit the Upper Midwest, spreading snow as far south into the Mid-Atlantic states through Monday.
For Saturday's storm, the National Weather Service said the heaviest snowfall — from 6 to 10 inches — and ice accumulations were expected along coastal New England.
In Boston, forecast to get 4 to 6 inches of snow, Mayor Martin J. Walsh urged residents to help the city's vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly and homeless.
"We ask that each and every single Boston resident look after their neighbor, be it someone you see outdoors or someone living next door," he said.
New York City was preparing for up to 4 inches of snow by midday, with the city's transit authority prepared to deploy super-powered snow throwers and retired subway cars modified with de-icing equipment to keep the buses and subways running. Transit workers also were set to spread salt and clear railroad platforms and stairs of snow, the agency said.
Along the Mid-Atlantic coast, predictions of snow were largely a bust. Washington, D.C., Delaware and Maryland got mostly rain, while even the snow that did begin to fall late Friday in southeastern Pennsylvania and West Virginia turned to rain and sleet by early Saturday.
Even as the storm was heading rapidly toward the sea, the second round of wintry precipitation from an Alberta Clipper was already on target for a Saturday evening arrival in the Upper Midwest, according to the weather service.
The second system is expected to race from the northern tier of the country to the Mid-Atlantic through Monday, dumping snow through the Ohio Valley and into the Mid-Atlantic states.
The heaviest snow is expected across northern Indiana into Central Ohio, where 4 to 8 inches are possible.
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