Over A Foot Of Snow Expected In New York

March came in like a lion for airline travelers throughout the eastern US this weekend, as a winter storm dumped snow from Georgia up into New York and Pennsylvania.

What started as a brisk rainstorm Saturday in parts of Atlanta turned to snowfall by early Sunday morning, with as much as seven inches of powder falling on the southern city. WSB-750 reports "hundreds" of flights out of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) were cancelled Sunday, with many cancellations extending into Monday as a separate storm system blanketed the Northeast.

As much as a foot of snow fell on New York City Sunday night, with an additional 4-6" expected throughout Monday as a storm bringing snow to the Baltimore-Washington area makes its way further up the Atlantic coast.

"The good news is that the snow is going to start to taper off later on this morning in DC and Philadelphia and this afternoon in New York," Accuweather.com meterologist Tom Kines told Bloomberg on Monday.

Close to 1,000 flights were cancelled throughout the New York area, according to Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Ron Marsico.

The National Weather Service expected as much as 14 inches of snow in New York state from the system, which NWS meteorologist Gary Conte described as "a good, old-fashioned snowstorm."

"This is not the type of snow that gets melted within 24 to 48 hours," he added.

Airlines with flights affected by the weather -- read, pretty much all of them -- have waived change fees for passengers stranded by the weather.

FMI: www.nws.noaagov, www.panynj.com, www.atlanta-airport.com/, www.fly.faa.gov