Millions across the US north-east remain under a state of emergency after a severe winter storm brought nearly two feet of snow in some places, along with high winds and cold temperatures. Parts of Canada's Atlantic Coast have also been affected.

New York's Central Park recorded almost 20in (51cm) of snow, according to the National Weather Center, and Providence, Rhode Island, received 33in (83cm) of snow, smashing the existing record for the single greatest snowstorm, 28.6in (72.6cm) set in February 1978.

The snow has started to taper off, but with so much on the ground, it could take several days for life to return to normal on the East Coast.

Here is where things stand at the moment:

• In New York, a travel ban that brought the city of over 8 million to a near standstill has been lifted
• NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani - who has been in office for only two months and has already experienced two major snow storms - announced that millions of students are taking a full snow-day off, meaning they did not have to attend online instruction or in-person school
• No deaths have been recorded in New York as a result of the storm, Mamdani said at a news conference. The last storm in New York in January left 19 people dead
• In neighbouring Connecticut and New Jersey, there are concerns that falling trees and branches loaded down by snow could lead to dangerous road conditions and more power outages
• Massachusetts appears to have been hit the hardest with power outages. More than 284,000 households and businesses are without power, according to blackout tracker PowerOutage.us
• Thousands of flights in and out of the affected area have been cancelled
• In Rhode Island and Connecticut, state bans on non-essential travel are in place until further notice
• Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who activated the state's National Guard ahead of the storm, told residents to check on neighbours and the elderly and "stay off the roads"

We are ending out live coverage for today, but you can read more about the blizzard and its aftermath here: More than 5,000 flights cancelled as US east coast digs out of record snow

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New Yorkers are no strangers to snow, but resident Mickey Blank says it "doesn't happen too often in the city that the road is covered and you have to go through mountains of snow".

Speaking to news agency Reuters, she describes today's conditions as "a very unique experience".

Some visitors to the city have been charmed by the conditions too.

Berliner Peggy Ferber is temporarily living in New York, and describes it as a "very special moment". She says she "woke up early" this morning to visit Times Square. It is "crazy" to see it "so empty", she says.

Sylvain Roy is visiting from Lille in France, and describes seeing snow in New York as "perfect".

Here are some pictures from around the city today:

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In Massachusetts, the county that contains the wealthy seaside enclave of Cape Cod is struggling to restore electricity.

More than 156,000 customers were without power in Barnstable County as of Monday evening, according to PowerOutage.us.

Entire neighbourhoods are without power, according to local media, due to strong winds blowing down trees laden with heavy snow, severing power lines.

Local power utility companies say they are working to rapidly restore service, but are being hampered by blowing snow and poor visibility. They plan to bring in work crews from neighbouring states.

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New York City authorities launched a live map that tracks how recently streets in the city have been ploughed, external.

The map shows that a large majority of streets were cleared in the last hour, or within the last three hours.

"Locked, loaded, ploughing," said NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani when sharing the service on X.

The city hires temporary emergency snow shovellers during a snowstorm, who have been shoveling snow from pavements, bus stops, and by fire hydrants.

Bridges, highways, and streets were closed to traffic until midday on Monday local time due to a citywide travel ban that allowed the ploughs to do their work.

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Max Matza
BBC News

I've just gotten off the phone with my parents who live in a suburb of Philadelphia called Lower Merion, which has been hammered by over one foot of soggy wet snow.

My mother, Linda, tells me she has spent the day baking bread for all the neighbours who have helped them shovel out their driveway and pavement.

My father, Michael, says he had to persuade their 13-year-old dog Ernie to go out into the snow - which at 14 inches is almost over his head - in order to do his morning business.

"I had to scoot him out the door," he says.

Their neighbours on Aberdale Rd, where I grew up as a child, have all been helping each other out amid the storm.

The teenager who lives next door brought over macaroni and cheese and cookies she had made on Sunday night, along with soup that her mother had made.

By the afternoon, the sun had come out and the snow had stopped, they say, but the digging out continues.

Rhode Island, America's smallest state, appears to have received the most snow during this storm.

In fact, it's the worst snowstorm to ever hit the state, according to local media.

Providence, the state capital, received 33in (83cm) of snow, smashing the existing record for the single greatest snowstorm, 28.6in (72.6cm) set in February 1978.

“It completely smashed it,” Candice Hrencecin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boston, told the New York Times. “We were just as shocked as everyone else.”

A spokesman for the city told The Providence Journal that so far 316 vehicles have been towed for parking in the way of plows. By the afternoon, tow operations had stopped and drivers were instead helping people whose vehicles had gotten stuck.

A travel ban remains in place, and four key bridges have been closed due to the weather.

Nearly 44,000 power outages were reported across The Ocean State as of Monday afternoon, according to Poweroutage.us

Shippan Point in Stamford, Connecticut, saw 14in (35cm) of snowfall in 24 hours, a little less than in New York, but still more than enough to close schools and clog roads.

The Carter family, originally from the UK, sent us this picture of their efforts to clear a path down to the street from their front door.

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No deaths have been recorded as a result of the winter storm, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says.

"As of now we are not aware of any deaths related to this blizzard on our city streets or in public areas," he said a news conference. He said city officials placed homeless people into shelters and warming centres.

Mamdani, who has been in office for nearly two months, is overseeing his second major snowstorm. The city recorded at least 19 deaths cold weather-related deaths during January's snowstorm.

Asked why he believed there had been no fatalities this time, Mamdani said the weather conditions are different.

"About the previous storm, we are talking about a level of arctic conditions that the city had not seen for many many years," he said adding that subfreezing temperatures that followed made conditions especially dangerous. "One of the few pieces of good news is that we will see 40 degree weather (4.4C) sometime in this week."

Ann Butler
Reporting from North Carolina

My niece is a graduate student at Teachers College at Columbia University which is in the Morningside Heights area of Manhattan - the north-west tip of the borough.

A North Carolina native, this is likely the most snow she has ever seen. I asked for some photos from her dorm apartment since she said it is too windy to go outside right now.

She also mentions that while Mayor Mamdani has cancelled classes in New York's public schools, no such luck for graduate school students. She is taking classes remotely.

Earlier, she couldn't see out.

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has imposed a travel ban on southern parts of the state.

"I'm issuing a travel ban on all non-essential driving in Southeastern Massachusetts — and reducing the speed limit on the Pike to 40mph," she said in an online post, referring to a major highway in the state.

"Whiteout conditions are making travel extremely dangerous. If you get stuck, help will have a hard time reaching you... I strongly urge everyone to stay off the roads no matter where you live."

The state has also been hit hard with power outages with more than 287,000 households and businesses without electricity, according to a blackout tracker.

Chris Fawkes
BBC Weather presenter

Many areas near the east coast between Delaware and Massachusetts have had 38 to 50cm (15 to 20 inches) of snow, but the biggest dumps so far have been recorded in parts of New York's Long Island and Rhode Island with up to 66cm (26 inches).

It's also windy, particularly for eastern-most areas. We've had a recent gust of 77mph (124km/h) at Nantucket Memorial Airport, Massachusetts.

The blizzard did not stop some dog owners from taking their pooches out for a walk, nor did it stop the Central Park ducks from taking a swim.

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As of Monday afternoon, more than 600,000 homes and businesses in the northeast US are without power due to the severe snowstorm.

The most impacted state is Massachusetts with nearly 300,000 without power, including 85% of customers in Barnstable County, which includes Cape Cod and surrounding areas, according to poweroutage.us.

New Jersey is also heavily hit, with 125,000 without power. Other states impacted include Delaware and Rhode Island.

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says 2,300 snow ploughs and 700 salt spreaders are out in New York, as well as 2,600 sanitation workers deployed in 12-hour shifts.

New York's Department of Sanitation is "working around the clock to keep NYC moving", he writes on X.

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The snow is expected to persist throughout Monday, according to the National Weather Service, with some areas near the northeast coastline expected to get a total of one to two feet of snow by Tuesday morning.

It will then make its way to the Canadian Maritimes, bringing relief to southern New England and New Jersey by late Monday. Maine, however, could see heavier snow and gale-force winds into the evening as the storm moves east.

Parts of the northeast may not be fully in the clear on Tuesday, with a cold low pressure system out of the Upper Great Lakes forecast to bring even more snowfall to some areas, including parts of Michigan.

That system is "set to pack a punch", warns the National Weather Service, with travel disruptions likely.

People living in impacted areas are advised to keep their eyes peeled on the latest weather updates from local officials.

We're getting some updated figures on snowfall across major northeastern cities in the US.

Here's the latest data from the National Weather Service:

• Providence, Rhode Island: 32.8in (83.3cm) of snow measured at TF Green International Airport, marking the largest snowfall in the area on record
• Montauk, New York: 28.1in (71cm) of snow recorded as of noon local time
• Newark, New Jersey: 25.8in (65.5cm) of snow recorded as of 13:00 local time
• Central Park, New York City: 19.7in (50cm) of snow recorded as of 13:00 local time
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 14in (35cm) of snow recorded at Philadelphia International Airport

Millions across the US north-east are under a state of emergency after a severe winter storm brought more than 22in (56cm) of snow in some places, along with high-speed winds. Parts of Canada's Atlantic Coast have also been affected.

New York's Central Park recorded 15in (38cm) of snow, according to the National Weather Center, and Providence, Rhode Island, received 33in (83cm) of snow, smashing the existing record for the single greatest snowstorm record, 28.6in (72.6cm) set in February 1978.

It is still snowing in some places, but the blizzard is expected to diminsh in the coming hours.

Here is where things stand at the moment:

• In New York, a travel ban that brought the city of over 8 million to a near standstill has been lifted. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that millions of students are taking a full snow-day off, meaning they did not have to attend online instruction or in-person school
• In neigbouring Connecticut and New Jersey, there are concerns that falling trees and branches could lead to dangerous road conditions and more power outages
• Massachusetts appears to have been hit the hardest with power outages. Nearly 287,000 households and businesses are without power, according to blackout tracker PowerOutage.us
• Thousands of flights in and out of the affected area have been cancelled
• In Rhode Island and Connecticut, state bans on non-essential travel are in place until further notice
• Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who activated the state's National Guard ahead of the storm, told residents to check on neighbours and the elderly and "stay off the roads"

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The number of cancelled flights within, into or out of the US today now comes to 5,648, according to tracking site FlightAware.

The site shows that 98% of flights out of New York's LaGuardia airport have been cancelled, and 90% of flights from JFK. Both locations have seen around 38cm (15in) of snow.

Boston's Logan International Airport has cancelled 92% of outgoing flights, while New Jersey's Newark Liberty Airport has cancelled 92%, and Philadelphia International Airport has cut 81%.

Photographs taken earlier today showed empty check-in desks and a deserted airport parking lot at LaGuardia.

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