ALBANY — A whopper winter storm hit upstate New York on Sunday morning after trudging northeast through more than half of the United States.
The storm — which has resulted in travel bans, flight cancellations at Albany International Airport and school closures — began to dump an anticipated 18 to 24 inches of snow across the Albany area, with even more possible in the Catskills by the storm’s end on Monday evening. Frigid temperatures are forecast to remain after the snow stops flying, with overnight lows hovering around zero through next weekend, and highs that reach to the teens and low 20s.
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a state of emergency in advance of the storm. Travel restrictions for commercial vehicles on the New York State Thruway went into effect at midnight. Other counties and municipalities have taken similar steps in recent days…