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An additional 1,000 US flights have been cancelled today as a second wave of heavy snowfall hit the northeast of the country.
This follows around 6,500 flights being grounded yesterday together with disruption to transatlantic services to and from New York, Boston and Washington DC.
The storm has been blamed for at least 22 deaths, including a pregnant woman struck by a snowplough in New York City, the BBC reported.
About 550,000 homes and businesses are still without power as the storm left as much as 15 inches of snow in the Washington DC region and 8 inches around New York yesterday.
Up to another foot is forecast in a second snowfall that began yesterday evening and is expected to continue this morning, with the heaviest falls expected in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
But the US National Weather Service predicted the weather would ease by the weekend.
By early this month, Washington DC, Detroit, Boston, Chicago, New York and St Louis had recorded two to three times as much snow as normal by this time in the winter.