Mil­lions of peo­ple in New York City and a large swath of the north­east­ern U.S. were stuck at home un­der road trav­el bans and bliz­zard warn­ings Mon­day as heavy snow and strong winds in­ten­si­fied, cre­at­ing white­out con­di­tions in the dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed re­gion.

Snow fell at a rate of 2 to 3 inch­es (5 to 7.6 cen­time­tres) an hour ear­ly Mon­day from New York through Mass­a­chu­setts. Some ar­eas have got­ten well over a foot (30 cen­time­tres) of snow since Sun­day, along with wind gusts of over 30 mph (48 kph) and low vis­i­bil­i­ty.

In New York, Long Is­land MacArthur Air­port re­port­ed 22.5 inch­es (57 cen­time­tres) of snow as of Mon­day morn­ing. About 18 inch­es (46 cen­time­tres) was re­port­ed in Newark, New Jer­sey, and about 15 inch­es (38 cen­time­tres) fell in New York City’s Cen­tral Park. New Lon­don, Con­necti­cut, and North Kingstown, Rhode Is­land, both got 17 inch­es of snow (43 cen­time­tres).