At 6:36 a.m. on Monday, the National Weather Service released an updated winter storm warning in effect until 6 p.m. for Berks, Lehigh and Northampton counties.

A blizzard pummeled the Northeast on Monday, at one point leaving more than 40 million people under warnings as heavy snowfall and hurricane-force winds bore down throughout the region. As much as 3 feet of snow has been reported by the National Weather Service in parts of New Jersey,

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro issued a disaster emergency declaration in anticipation of a major and potentially record-breaking winter storm.

Nearly 9,000 flights across the U.S. have been canceled, including some arriving at or departing from Rochester, due to a winter storm.