08:59 AM After brief break, more snow expected in New York City area on Tuesday night TOM KAMINSKI/WCBS8080 Don’t put those winter boots away just yet. Up to 9 more inches of snow was expected to blanket New York City through Wednesday, ahead of a third round of brutal weather due to hit the Big Apple over the weekend. PHOTOS: WINTER SNOWSTORM TURNS NYC INTO SLUSHY MESS CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS A man walks dogs through the snow in Central Park on Monday. Clear skies and temps in the mid-30s were expected on Tuesday, before a second round of snow struck the city Tuesday night and Wednesday. The latest wintry mix was expected to sweep in from the Plains and begin falling in the city before 3 a.m., dishing up miserable combo of snow, sleet and freezing rain until at least 3 p.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. The weather service issued winter storm warnings from midnight to 6 p.m. for the New York metro area, northeast New Jersey, southern Connecticut and much of upstate New York, where forecasters predicted more than 20 inches of snow could fall in some areas. RELATED: WINTER STORM HITS NYC AREA HOURS AFTER SUPER BOWL BEBETO MATTHEWS/AP Shovelers remove snow from a sidewalk in Flatbush on Monday. Forecasters called for as many as 9 inches in parts of the metro area on Tuesday and Wednesday. In the city, the latest winter wallop was coming fresh on the heels of a post-Super Bowl storm that dropped 8 inches of white stuff on Central Park. Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a press conference Monday that city-dwellers should brace for an extremely icy week. Tri-state to get pummeled with snow, ice in second round of wintery nightmare 00:00 / 01:48 UNCREDITED/AP This NOAA satellite image taken at 01:45 a.m. Tuesday shows a storm offshore over the Atlantic and its front extending into the Southeast. The Cloudiness over the mid-section of the U.S. is a developing storm system that will move along the frontal boundary, producing heavy snow and rain throughout the eastern U.S. The fact is that we are facing not one, not two, but three storms potentially this week, he said. Snow is coming down faster than we can plow it. We have a very aggressive plowing operation going on but snow is coming down very rapidly. RELATED: COPS BUST SUSPECT SOUGHT FOR SLASHING OF JANITOR RICHARD HARBUS/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Snow blanketed MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Monday, one day after the Super Bowl. On Tuesday morning, temperatures hovered in the low 20s but would rise into the mid-30s by the afternoon, leading to a brief snowmelt and sloppy conditions on sidewalks and roads. Schools were open as usual in the city, though there were late openings in suburban districts in Long Island, Westchester and New Jersey. RELATED: BROOKLYN MAN, 73, DEAD AFTER HIT BY BACKHOE PUSHING SNOW TANNEN MAURY/EPA Baggage handlers work in the snow at Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday. The storm wreaked havoc on travel, with more than 4,300 delayed flights and 1,900 canceled in cities including Philadelphia, Newark, N.J., and New York. Alternate side parking rules were suspended again Tuesday, and trash and recycling operations were expected to be delayed, the citys Sanitation Department said. Upstate, snowfall totals were likely to range from about 10 inches in the Buffalo area to 20 inches or more in parts of the Southern Tier and Hudson Valley, the weather service said. Temperatures there will plunge to the teens or single digits in most upstate areas by the time the storm moves out of the region late Wednesday night, forecasters said.
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