Winter Snow Storm Juno Latest News: Potentially Record-Setting Winter Storm; 3,000 Flights Canceled

Rio Rose Ribaya Monday, January 26, 2015

People walk up 5th Avenue at Central Park as it snows in the Manhattan borough of New York on Jan. 26, 2015. | REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Around 3,000 flights scheduled to depart on Monday and Tuesday were cancelled on Sunday in anticipation of a potentially record-setting winter storm that will hit the northeastern part of the United States.

Flights that are already running were predicted to experience delay due to blizzard conditions with heavy snow and powerful winds, which will be severely felt in New York and Boston, a Washington Post report said.

As of 5 a.m. ET, FlightAware announced that there had been about 1,931 flight cancellations for Monday, with JetBlue, ExpressJet, and United leading the list, according to CNBC.

The National Weather Service added that Winter Storm Juno, which is due to hit on Monday and last until Wednesday, may dump 2 feet or more of snow between the two cities and Connecticut.

N.W.S. meteorologist Brian Hurley said Juno will be the strongest storm of the year, which is expected to dump 18 to 24 inches of snow in New York City, down from a forecast of up to 36 inches on Sunday night.

"This will be the strongest storm of the year. This Nor'easter is going to produce a wide swath of snowfall," Hurley said.

Seven states on the Northeast including communities from the New Jersey shore to Maine as well as New York City, Boston, Providence, Hartford and Portland are bracing for the impact of the winter storm.

Churning up the coast, the storm system driving out of the Midwest had already brought snow to Ohio on Sunday and was expected to ultimately spread it from the nation's capital to Maine.

Over a foot of snow is forecast to fall in an area spanning from Philadelphia, which should expect to see about 8 inches, but points north and east should see more substantial snowfalls. Some 14 inches were reportedly possible in some parts of New Jersey.

The snowstorm follows a winter storm that killed five people in accidents that occurred in the northeastern U.S. as ice coated roads and bridges last Jan. 19.

More than 28 million people could be affected by power outages, travel disruptions and lingering cold and ice. The peak of the storm is due to hit Monday through Tuesday evening, Weather.com reported.