Both cities are under a winter weather advisory as snow and ice are expected to move in later Monday, according to the National Weather Service
It could easily be New York’s biggest snow event of a nearly snowless season. The weather service is forecasting 4 to 6 inches of snow and ice in New York City from Monday evening through midday Tuesday, along with winds gusting to 35 mph.
The city’s largest snowfall so far was just 2.3 inches on January 23. Boston has seen less than a third of its normal snowfall this winter, about 10 inches total compared to a normal of 3 feet, Miller said.
The unusually snowless winter prompted Mayor Gary Christenson of Malden, Massachusetts, just north of Boston, to declare winter over on February 8, when he tweeted the city was lifting all winter parking restrictions for its roughly 65,000 residents.
Winter weather alerts, which include both winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories, are in effect for parts of central Pennsylvania through central Maine through Tuesday, according to the weather service.
The highest snow amounts are expected across interior portions of New York, Connecticut and into the Berkshire mountains in Massachusetts, where up to a foot of fresh powder is possible.
Mixed precipitation is expected in parts of central Pennsylvania, including 1-2 inches of snow and sleet in the valleys and 2-4 inches on higher ground; ice accumulation is also expected.