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[h=4]New snowstorm, new target: South under siege[/h]Boston's transit system slowly came back to life Monday as the city emerged from the latest in a series of crippling snowstorms. "Commuter rail is operating on a Saturday schedule, but with significant delays
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While in Massachusetts covering what's being called a "snow hurricane," The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore and his crew caught the weather phenomenon of thundersnow on camera. Cantore reacted as if he just won the lottery. VPC
A snow plow leads traffic up Versailles road in Lexington, Ky. as heavy snow falls across central Kentucky on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015.(Photo: Mark Cornelison, AP)
The latest winter storm to rattle the Eastern USA was poised Monday to deal battered Boston only a glancing blow while blasting several states in the South and East.
Despite bitterly cold temperatures, Boston was happy for a respite from snow after a weekend storm dumped 16.5 inches on the city, pushing the winter total to 8 feet — and counting.
Boston's forecast called for a few more inches Tuesday, far short of what was rolling toward less well-equipped areas of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.
In Kentucky, a section of Interstate 71 near Louisville closed Monday shortly after the snow started. Parts of the state could see more than a foot of snow, the National Weather Service said.
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"For Louisville, it could be one of the worst (snowstorms) in 10 years," said meteorologist Joe Sullivan.
In Nashville, homeless shelter volunteer coordinator Robb McCluskey said he was worried that a few inches of slush, ice and snow would keep drivers from bringing people to the shelter and keep church congregations from delivering dinner.
"That's the big issue," McCluskey said, "seeing how others are going to survive it."
The Weather Channel reported that "snow, sleet and freezing rain will make travel difficult, and winter storm warnings have already been posted for almost 47 million people."
That could translate to 4 inches of nasty ice and snow as far south as northern Georgia. Roanoke in southern Virginia could see up to a foot of snow. And Washington, D.C., not known for its prowess in handling such storms, could see almost as much, most of it falling early Tuesday.
Bitter cold temperatures were adding to the region's woes. Washington's high temperature was forecast to reach 25 degrees — about 20 degrees below average for the date.
Frigid temperatures were reported all across the northeastern USA Monday morning: Erie, Pa., dropped to minus-18 degrees, tying the city's all-time record low temperature, according to the National Weather Service. Cleveland's minus-8 degree reading broke a daily record low previously set in 1904.
Daily record lows were also tied or broken in Detroit, Baltimore, Syracuse, Toledo, Trenton, N.J., and Wilmington, Del., the Weather Channel reported.
Boston fell to minus-3 degrees, its coldest reading since January 2004, while Philadelphia bottomed out at 3 degrees, its coldest since January 2005, meteorologist Matt Lanza reported.
Airlines took notice of the cold and snow, canceling more than 1,000 flights nationwide Monday and more than 300 for Tuesday. Monday's cancellations were scattered across airports from New England to the Deep South as lingering disruptions from the weekend's blizzard mixed with the latest winter storm.
Still, no region has faced more winter difficulties than eastern Massachusetts. In Boston, the 58.5 inches of snow so far this month makes February 2015 the city's snowiest month on record, the National Weather Service reported. That's 10 times what the city typically receives in February.
The city's 2014-15 winter is the third-snowiest on record, with more than 95 inches recorded so far. The city is only 12 inches away from its snowiest winter ever — based on records dating to the 1870s.
"It's certainly not a record that we want," Mayor Marty Walsh told the Boston Herald. "It looks like a record we can get."
Contributing: Doyle Rice and Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY; Matthew Glowicki, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal; Stacey Barchenger, The (Nashville) Tennessean.
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