Published on Feb. 21, 2026, 7:49 PM
Travellers heading to, from or along the East Coast will likely need to postpone their plans on Sunday and Monday as a major Atlantic storm is set to bring a swath of heavy snow, blustery, potentially damaging winds, and even blizzard conditions for many locales
Millions of people will be in the path of a potent nor’easter Sunday and Monday, putting all modes of travel in peril.
A significant storm that will develop somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic to New England area will put numerous major U.S. and Canadian cities in the path of a winter wallop into early next week, including New York City, N.Y., Boston, Mass., and Halifax, N.S., among others.
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As a result of the impending nor’easter, blizzard warnings and winter storm watches have popped up stateside, stretching from West Virginia to Nova Scotia. It should be noted that only winter storm watches have been issued in Nova Scotia. The alerts cover more than 1,700 kilometres, an astounding distance for any storm.
The low-pressure system is forecast to undergo rapid intensification, enough so to classify the storm as a weather bomb, or bomb cyclone, as it’s also known as..
Blizzard warnings are stretching along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, from
Massachusetts to Delaware, a distance of more than 600 kilometres–continuing to expand as of Saturday afternoon.
It is the first time in four years that a blizzard warning has been issued for Long Island and New York City.
