Major storm barreling toward New York City, 20 inches could fall on midtown

FILE PHOTO: People jog during light snow in Central Park in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., January 26, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar

(Reuters) - New York, Boston and other cities in the northeast could be blanketed with nearly two feet (60.96 cm) of snow on Monday, as a "long duration" major winter storm headed toward the U.S. coast, the National Weather Service said.

Snow is expected to begin late Sunday night across a wide swath of the northeast, with "in excess of 20 inches of snow in parts of eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, southern New York, and into southern New England," the NWS said in bulletin.