LATEST NEWS - THE SECOND NOR'EASTER STORM

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Winter Storm Quinn will impact the Northeast by midweek as a coastal storm.

The second Nor'easter is expected Tuesday evening, starting with heavy, wet snow and gusting winds and moving up the coast.
The system is expected to continue into Wednesday and Thursday with heavy snow forecast for New England.
The storm was still lingering over the Great Plains on Monday afternoon, causing whiteout conditions in South Dakota, where 140 miles of Interstate 90 from Murdo to Mitchell were closed in both directions, the state Transportation Department said.
Authorities in Minnesota, where Minneapolis was expected to get as much as 6 inches of new snow, issued a no travel advisory in southwestern parts of the state because of limited visibility from blizzard conditions.
And "this whole storm is progressing towards the north and the east," said Ari Sarsalari, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel, adding: "The good news with this one is it's not going to be quite as bad."
NBC News meteorologist Sherri Pugh said it would be "later this week that energy gets transferred into a coastal storm, and that's our Nor'easter."
"That doesn't mean it's bringing blizzard conditions here," she added. "It's a different impact in the two regions."
The storm carries the risk of even more downed power lines and trees, as well as minor to moderate coastal flooding.
"The snow could reach closer to the coast," Pugh said. "It's the kind of snow amounts that could cause travel problems and power outages." But she said that this nor'easter was moving quicker than the last and that "hopefully we won't have hours and hours of that high-tide flooding."
Although the winter weather isn't expected to be as strong as the storm that ravaged the East Coast last week, it was expected to bring snow to Philadelphia, New York, and Boston — areas that mostly saw rain last time.
Big cities could be affected, but because it's still not clear where cities will get rain or snow, it's too early to determine how many inches the Northeast can expect, Pugh said.

A shipwreck was uncovered after the storm battered the New England coast on March 5 on Short Sands Beach in York, Maine.
Almost a third of a million people were still without power on Monday afternoon after a ferocious Nor'easter hammered the East Coast — and many residents were bracing for round two with a second storm forecast to roll into the region late Tuesday.
At 11 p.m. ET, the number of customers without electricity in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia had fallen below 300,000, according to each state's respective power companies.
At least nine people died, including an 11-year-old and a 6-year-old.
The lack of heat forced some people from their homes, while others were forced out by flooding.
"We've been suffering, because we have no light, no nothing. We have dogs and it's just been miserable," Veronica Tarter of Pikesville, Maryland, told NBC affiliate WBAL of Baltimore. "Most of my food I have to throw away, and I have two refrigerators," she added.
Shelters have opened and the school has been canceled in some regions with no power.
The storm also downed a 227-year-old Canadian Hemlock believed to have been planted by President George Washington at Mount Vernon, Virginia.
It also uncovered a shipwreck in New England — believed to be more than 160 years old, according to The Boston Globe.
But as some East Coast states cleared the debris from Friday's storm and worked to restore power, 33 million people from eastern Pennsylvania to Maine were yet again under a winter storm watch, according to The Weather Channel and the National Weather Service.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, center, walks on a seawall at Stage Fort Park with State Senator Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester, right) while inspecting some of the areas that were affected by a weekend nor'easter storm on March 4 in Gloucester, MA.
Salem News reporter Mary Markos left, slipped and fell off the rocks into the water after being hit by a wave while shooting video.

Jacob Gurner of Scituate walks through a flooded backyard after checking on his home on Otis Road in the aftermath of a nor'easter storm on March 3 in Scituate, MA.

A man takes pictures as heavy seas continue to come ashore in Winthrop, Mass., a day after a nor'easter pounded the Atlantic coast with hurricane-force winds, sideways rain, snow, flooding streets, grounding flights, stopping trains and leaving 1.6 million customers without power from North Carolina to Maine.

Alexander Kelly with A&E Landscape works on clearing a fallen tree from a driveway on Marshall Street in Duxbury, MA in the aftermath of a nor'easter storm.