run down the slopes, and checked out preparations for the opening and closing ceremonies. the games start in 34 days. head up the east coast, and boston is digging out from the first nor easter of the year. reporter: i m ron mott in boston, the sun came out after what seems like 24, 25 hours of straight snowfall. 12 inches here in the city, twice as much on the north shore, and coastal flooding on the south shore. a lot to do with the snowstorm. they didn t have much competition to keep the roads clear, so downtown is clear, a lot of folks have a three-day weekend. they have work to do at home to get the snow off the sidewalks. the kids are loving this, most school districts closed. we re expecting temperatures in the single digits in terms of
oh, and look, right into my face. oh, gosh. that ll wake you up. above and beyond. reporter: as far as the snow goes, officially at logan, 15.1, north shore, a couple feet up in the county. and tomorrow morning, 4 below in logan, ties the record. and a big warmup sunday and monday. the next storm to the west of the mountains. bring warm air into new york and boston and philadelphia. what falls next will be rain. but the next air mass that comes down the pike into the midwest, the coldest in 20 years, chicago s high on monday, 12 below zero, ties the all-time record low. many areas set the records. and after the big warm up, back into the deep freeze on tuesday and wednesday. and temperatures here in new york will be much like they are today. we ll fall out quickly and
the other good news with snow this light and fluffy, not a lot of power outages. not as heavy on the trees, not knocking down the power lines. a little bit of good news, but it s going to be sometime as we go through today before things get back to normal. back to you. thanks so much to kristen in new york. along the l.i.e. there are abnormally cold temperatures. and joining me now is michaelman, professor of meteorology at penn state university. it is january, we should expect cold weather and snow and wind. it does seem like those temperatures especially in boston and chicago and some of the other big cities are colder than usual. what say you? well, that s right. this is winter. and somebody asked me the other day, you know, how can we reconcile the fact that we re
out here and put out salt. it wouldn t make any difference with the weather. and earlier this morning, we had the light, fluffy snow. that s gone. we have all of the cookie dough snow that s dirty. that s a good sign. it s warmer. you were talking about airports, logan international over my shoulder, they started to taxi about three hours ago. good sign. they also started to take off within the last two hours, andrea. richmond louis in boston. and one of the most important highways in long island was closed from midnight to this morning on orders from the governor. it s the long island expressway in new york. thanks for the help from the locals kristen, tell us whether the highway s now been cleared.
so folks are urged to just cuddle up indoors, stay off the roads for sure, even the city of boston telling people not to come in the city, use public transportation, and also get your cars off the road by noon today. so we re tracking this storm. it feels like 7 degrees right now in boston. very, very cold, and it s expected, the snow is expected to get much worse as we go through the late evening hours into tomorrow especially. these two areas of low pressure are going to converge in the northeast, rain in the south, snow in the north, and we could see snow totals of 12 to 15 inches of snow in boston, 6 to 8 inches of snow in new york city, and one to three inches of snow in d.c. areas like philly, pittsburgh, going to see the snow as well, we ve already seen incredible amounts in the midwest and the northern plains, chicago picked up over five inches of snow, blizzard warnings even in effect for long island as well as the