Chandler Fescemeyer, 17, snowboards down the road after a winter storm blanketed the Midwest with snow on Dec. 26, in Pittsburgh, Penn. The storm has moved west from the Sierra Nevada across the Midwest and will head to the East Coast today.

A cyclist rides his bike through a winter snowstorm on Dec. 26, in New York City. Snow, mixed with and changing to rain, is expected to hit the New York City area this afternoon into the evening.

A person pushes a kart while salting the sidewalk at Military Park in downtown Newark, N.J., on Dec. 26. The National Weather Service forecast sustained winds of 15 to 20 mph along the coast in the afternoon, with gusts up to 40 mph. The storm is expected to dump a total of four to six inches on the area and also produce sleet and freezing rain. Other areas are expected to get between two and three inches of rain. A flood watch has been issued from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning.

A pedestrian crosses the Smithfiled Street Bridge after a winter storm blanketed the Midwest with snow on Dec. 26, in Pittsburgh, Penn.

Motorists make their way through snow fall and traffic along the Merritt Parkway as the first effects of a winter storm are felt in Norwalk, Conn., Dec. 26.

Snow falls over Military Park in downtown Newark, N.J., on Dec. 26. The National Weather Service forecast predicts sustained winds of 15 to 20 mph along the coast in the afternoon, with gusts up to 40 mph.

A woman walks during a blizzard in Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 5.

A parked car seen covered with snow during a blizzard in Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 5.

People struggle against wind and drifting snow in Stockholm Dec. 5.

Ted Hoffman walks past snow-covered evergreens near his home on Bell Street in north Bismarck, N.D. on Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Bismarck received 8 inches of snow from a blizzard that passed through most of North Dakota. Tom Stromme / The Bismarck Tribune,

A man walks past a large pile of garbage in New York on Monday, Jan. 3. After a large snowstorm crippled the city last week, the New York City Department of Sanitation has been unable to collect garbage leading to large uncollected piles of waste. Garbage collection resumed today, but officials estimated it would take up to four days to catch up.

Brendan Dowd sleds with his daughters Jasmine and Mairin, 9 and 7, down a sledding hill in Brooklyn's Prospect Park after the season's first blizzard blanketed New York on Dec. 27. A powerful East Coast blizzard marooned thousands of would-be air, rail and road travelers Monday, shutting down major airports and rail lines for a second day, stranding buses on buried highways, and forcing New York City subway riders to spend a cold night in unheated trains.

Maia Kovaleski, 5, grimaces as she gets snow in her face while sledding with her sister Kika, 7, in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. A blizzard dumped 20-inches of snow in the area on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010.

Snow swirls around people enjoying a sledding hill in Prospect Park.

A pedestrian uses plastic bags for boots as he walks down a street during a snowstorm in Minneapolis on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010.

Kali Pliego of Minneapolis digs out her car during a snowstorm in Minneapolis, Minn. on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010.

Amid a blizzard, hospital executive Robert Stevens of Waconia, Minn., poses for a photo from the roof of an Excelsior, Minn., coffee shop, where he was stationed to raise money for his daughter's school, on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. Stevens, president and CEO of Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, had hatched plans long before the storm was forecast to camp on the roof of the Dunn Brothers coffee shop in Excelsior until he raised $100,000 for Spring Hill School, a private K-8 institution attended by his daughter.