United States

Late-season US snowstorm weakens

Residents clear their cars and street of snow in Weehawken, New Jersey, as the One World Trade...
Residents clear their cars and street of snow in Weehawken, New Jersey, as the One World Trade Center and lower Manhattan are seen after a snowstorm in New York. Photo: Reuters

A late-season snowstorm that swept the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States has begun to weaken after closing schools, grounding flights and knocking out electricity supply to hundreds of thousands of consumers.