Northeastern states issue snow travel bans

Connecticut and Massachusetts are issuing travel bans in anticipation of a large snow storm that has been forecasted to hit the northeast U.S. on Monday and Tuesday. 

As much as two feet of snow is forecasted to fall in major cities on the East Coast like New York and Boston as part of a weather pattern meteorologists have dubbed “Winter Storm Juno.” 

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) tweeted that he was instituting a travel ban in his state that would begin on Monday night. 

{mosads}“We will issue a travel ban for the entire State of #CT beginning at 9PM this evening,” he wrote. 

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) issued a similar proclamation on Monday afternoon. 

“From @MassEMA, announcing a state of emergency effective now & a statewide travel ban starting at midnight in preparation for the blizzard,” Baker tweeted. 

Lawmakers have canceled votes that were scheduled for Monday evening in Washington and airlines have canceled 5,195 flights ahead of the Juno storm, which New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio (D) has warned will likely produce conditions in the northeast that are “worse than we have ever seen before.” 

Most of the flight cancellations were at airports in the New York and New Jersey area like LaGuardia Airport, which had 235 outgoing and 13 inbound flights delayed. 

Newark Liberty International, New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, Philadelphia International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare Airport rounded out the top five on the delay list Monday, according to the website FlightAware.com.