A powerful winter storm is roiling travel across the northeastern U.S. Heavy snow, strong winds and blizzard warnings have prompted transportation shutdowns, forcing millions of people to stay home. Air traffic is also coming to a standstill in much of the much of the region,

The monster blizzard is now officially one of the city’s 10 biggest winter storms on record. As of 2 p.m. Monday, the storm had dumped 19.7 inches of snow on Central Park in Manhattan, beating out the blizzard of January 2011’s 19 inches, which had held the No. 9 “biggest” snowstorm on record.

Why has the East Coast gotten so much snow? Meteorologists explain what’s going on.

The winds from the blizzard have reached hurricane strength in Massachusetts. Here's where they've been the strongest.

Millions of people are being warned about the potential for blizzard conditions. The winter storm, the path of which has concerned forecasters for days, is now expected to bring "significant impacts" across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Sunday into Monday, the National Weather Service said Saturday, Feb. 21.

A powerful blizzard dropped more than two-and-a-half feet of snow (76.2 cm) across parts of the U.S. Northeast on Monday, bringing travel to a near-standstill for millions of residents as the treacherous conditions closed roads,