NEW YORK — Snow from a widespread winter storm began falling Saturday over most of the Northeast and the upper Ohio River Valley, the second in less than a week for the regions.
The National Weather Service expected up to a foot of snow in parts of southern New England, with the heaviest snowfall possibly in Providence, R.I., and Boston, which declared parking bans to allow snow removal vehicles to clean the streets. Winter-storm warnings were in effect in parts of those states and in Connecticut.
New York City and Philadelphia saw a mix of rain and snow as the storm moved in from the west. In Ohio, Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati saw 2 to 5 inches of snow by Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service said.
About 20 vehicles piled up in a storm-related chain-reaction crash on Interstate 93 in New Hampton, N.H., police said, and five people were injured.
Officials lowered the speed limit on much of the Pennsylvania Turnpike from 65 mph to 45 mph.
In Albany, N.Y., a regional jet skidded into a snowbank at the airport and became stuck, stranding passengers en route to Chicago. The 65 United Airlines passengers and crew members were put on a bus and sent back to the airport. There were no injuries, and the accident didn’t cause any other flight delays, airport authority spokesman Doug Myers said.
Flights at Philadelphia’s airport were delayed about an hour, mostly arrivals, spokesman Stacy Jackson said.
Parts of southern Indiana saw 6-8 inches from the storm, some in areas that had received more than a foot from a blizzard last week.
That blizzard was part of a storm system that dumped more than a foot of snow in some places and has been blamed for at least 16 deaths. It also spawned more than a dozen tornadoes in Alabama, the National Weather Service said.
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