Feb 24 (Reuters) - U.S. airlines canceled over 2,000 flights on Tuesday, far fewer than a day earlier, as a powerful winter storm that disrupted airports across the Northeast was expected to ease by evening,

Over 40 million people remained under a blizzard warning on Monday morning, after the storm dumped more than a foot of snow in some places and strangled transit in major metropolitan areas.

A punchy nor’easter will lash the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast with heavy snow, blizzard conditions and coastal flooding on Sunday and Monday.

An evacuation warning has been issued for Guerneville in Sonoma County.

The storm heading for the Northeast United States could be seen from space this morning as it began to take on a comma-shaped cloud pattern, with the storm’s center just off the coast of the Carolinas.

As Winter Storm Hernando slowly inches toward the coast, shoppers at a hardware store in Quincy, Massachusetts were seen picking up last minute essentials this morning, including snowblower fuel, rock salt, and this snow shovel. If you still need supplies before this blizzard, there isn’t much time left.

BALTIMORE — An entire Eastern Shore town was without power Monday as widespread outages hit the region after a heavy snowstorm. A Delmarva Power outage map showed nearly 1,000 outages Monday morning,