The National Weather Service has started issuing its first winter storm warnings across the Northeast and New England in advance of a potential nor’easter that could dump plowable snow on millions of people in the region starting Monday.
More than 20 million Americans across the region had been under winter storm watches as forecasters began to keep an eye on computer forecast models showing the potential for a disruptive winter storm.
As those models began to come into agreement, however, the decision was made to start upgrading those winter weather alerts to winter storm warnings.
As of Sunday afternoon, winter storm warnings stretched from portions of Pennsylvania and New York to Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The winter storm warnings include cities such as Scranton in Pennsylvania and Binghamton, Elmira and Monticello in New York.
Hartford in Connecticut is also among the cities under the winter storm warning, as are Providence in Rhode Island and Springfield, Boston and Worcester in Massachusetts.