BOSTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A new winter storm is expected to push toward the East Coast into Tuesday as Boston continues being blanketed by record-breaking snowfall.
Last week's blizzard broke two records in Boston. The National Weather Service tweeted Sunday that February 2015 was the city's snowiest month on record.
Snowiest month on record in Boston! Thru 1 PM, Feb 2015 snow is 58.5 inches, previous record is 43.3 inches (Jan 2005). Only 2+ wks in!
— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) February 15, 2015The blizzard, called Winter Storm Neptune by The Weather Channel, also contributed to Boston's third-snowiest winter on record, with up to six feet piled up in some areas. Wind chill warnings are in effect into Monday, and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker urged residents to avoid road travel.
Meanwhile, another winter storm is expected to move across the Rockies toward the East Coast on Sunday through Tuesday, bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain to portions of the Central Plains, middle Mississippi Valley, Mid-South, Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and possibly New England.
The heaviest snows are anticipated to strike areas south of the Ohio River into the mid-Atlantic, with up to a foot of snow expected in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. Lighter snows could affect areas as far north as New York state and southeast New England on Tuesday. Freezing rains are expected in areas farther south in Alabama, southern Tennessee, northern Georgia and the Carolinas, and thunderstorms could spread though the Gulf Coast by Monday.
