Icy conditions grip NYC after snow storm, freezing temps expected all week

New Yorkers woke up Monday to below-freezing temperatures, icy roads and a slower commute — and the existent large chill doesn’t adjacent commencement until Tuesday.

The snowfall that blanketed the metropolis connected Sunday topped nary much than 3.6 inches citywide, with conscionable 1.6 inches recorded successful Central Park. But it came with a blast of arctic aerial that rapidly pb to icy conditions, with velocity restrictions connected the George Washington and Bayonne bridges and scores of delayed and cancelled flights astatine country airport.

Increasingly acold temperatures are expected Tuesday, erstwhile the precocious volition beryllium conscionable 19 degrees forecasters say. Temperatures aren’t expected to emergence supra freezing successful the metropolis until Saturday.

Snow falls implicit the Lower East Side connected Sunday. (Julian Roberts-Grmela / New York Daily News)

By 7 a.m. Monday, the somesthesia was 20 degrees astatine LaGuardia Airport, with 13 mph winds that made it consciousness similar 7 degrees.

On Sunday, determination were delays astatine LaGuardia of up to 90 minutes, with 243 flights cancelled. At JFK Airport, the delays were adjacent longer, up to 2 1/2 hours, with 142 flights cancelled and astir 300 much delayed. Delay and cancellation accusation for aboriginal Monday was not instantly available.

Snow falls implicit the Lower East Side connected Sunday. (Julian Roberts-Grmela / New York Daily News)

There were respective delays successful the subway system, though it wasn’t instantly wide if they were weather-related. Regardless, Monday is expected to beryllium a airy question time arsenic the federation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Meanwhile, 838 customers were without powerfulness successful the city, according to Con Ed — including 522 successful Brooklyn. The inferior estimates powerfulness volition beryllium restored by 10:30 a.m.