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2nd major snowstorm in a week blankets Northeast

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People make their way across the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday during the second snowstorm to buffet the area in less than a week,.
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Charlene Dixon, of Pottsville, Pa., cleans snow off her car Sunday morining in Pottsville, Pa.
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Snow blankets Mahantongo Street in Pottsville, Pa., on Sunday morning, Feb. 7, 2021.
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A snowplow makes it’s way across the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge during a snowstorm, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in New York. It was the second major snowstorm in less than week to hit the area.
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A woman rides a bicycle across the Brooklyn Bridge during a snowstorm, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. It was the second time in less than a week the area has been buffeted by heavy snowfall.
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A woman and child ride a snowboard down a small hill in downtown Brooklyn during a snowstorm, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in New York. It was the second snowstorm to hit the New York area in less than a week.
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A man walks through the snow during a winter storm, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in Villanova, Pa.

NEW YORK — A major snowstorm pushed through the Northeastern United States on Sunday, less than a week after a storm dumped more than 2 feet on parts of the region.

By early afternoon, 5 to 7 inches had already fallen in parts of northwestern New Jersey and southwestern Connecticut. New York’s Central Park reported about 3 inches. The highest total was recorded in West Whiteland Township, west of Philadelphia, where about 9 inches had fallen.

The National Weather Service predicted up to 8 inches of snow in New York City and 2 to 4 inches in Washington, D.C. Up to a foot was projected to fall on some areas along the Connecticut coastline.

Large, fluffy fakes began falling in Rhode Island late Sunday morning, prompting local governments to enact street parking bans and warn of poor travel conditions for the rest of the day. A heavy band of snow heading northeast had dumped 5 inches in the towns of Sharon and Uxbridge, southeast of Boston, by 2 p.m.

In Connecticut, a jack-knifed tractor-trailer caused two exits to be closed on Interstate 84 in Middlebury, with only one lane of traffic getting by.

Weather service forecaster Bob Oravec said a mix of snow and rain would move northward up the East Coast. “It is a fast-moving storm,” Oravec said.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday’s snowfall, which started at around 9 a.m. in the city, would not close covid-19 vaccination sites.

The massive snowstorm that hit the region on Feb. 1 forced the postponement of hundreds of vaccination appointments in New York and elsewhere.

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