New York soaks as winter storm halts flights, causes outages

The worst of the winter weather is winding down along the US East Coast after a quick-moving storm swept northeast, leaving thousands of customers without power and grounding flights. Rain started to taper off in Washington and in New York’s Central Park, where temperatures reached 5 Celsius Monday, according to the National Weather Service. The winter precipitation is “pretty much done in D.C. to New York to Boston,” said Marc Chenard, a senior branch forecaster at the U.S. Weather Prediction Center. “In general the storm will have some strong winds with it, but most of the bigger winter impacts will be in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, away from the coast.” More than 1,600 flights have been canceled Monday, with airports in Charlotte, North Carolina and Toronto being hardest hit, according to FlightAware. An additional 3,059 air trips had been scrubbed on Sunday.<br/>