The Northeast is preparing for another big storm as a disturbance tracking across the Great Lakes is expected to merge with another low pressure system developing off the Mid-Atlantic Coast this evening. The winter storm is expected to pass to the south of Cape Cod and then intensify rapidly, dumping heavy snow across southern New England and parts of New York.
Forecasters' warnings that the storm could be one for the record books is being taken seriously as residents scurry to stock up on food, water, and gas, and road crews are on standby with salt and sand.
Click “next” to see images from around the Northeast Friday morning.
Andre Tranchemantague, left, and Will Guerette, ski on a snow-covered road as they make their way to a bar during the early stages of the snow storm on Friday in Portland, Maine. The storm has already has dumped half-a-foot of snow around Portland and contributed to a 19-car pileup—and it's just getting started. Nemo is poised to dump up to three feet of snow from New York City to Boston and beyond through Saturday.
(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Jack Percoco of Cambridge, Mass. reaches into depleted shelves for milk at a supermarket in Somerville, Mass. on Friday. Boston, which has seen mostly bare ground this winter, is expected to get up to two feet of snow.
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Déjà vu: Vehicles wait in line as gas is delivered to a station in Ellington, Conn., on Friday. Many stations in the area are out due to residents rushing to fill their tanks and gas cans before the big storm hits.
(AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
TV monitors at Logan International Airport in Boston show cancelled flights Friday morning. Boston and much of eastern Massachusetts is under a blizzard warning until 1 p.m. Saturday. Logan said it would try to stay open during the storm but airlines had already canceled many flights through Saturday.
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
A warning sign flashes for motorists on the expressway into Boston as snow starts to fall.
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Snowplows sit parked at a New York Department of Sanitation depot as snow begins to swirl in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Morning rush hour pedestrians make their way to work on Delancey St. in New York on Friday morning.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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