Snow day in New York
The 26.6 inches of snow that fell in Central Park on Saturday is a one-day record for New York City.
The National Weather Service says the overall accumulation — 26.8 inches — is the second-most for a single storm in city history.
Meteorologist Faye Barthold says all but two-tenths of an inch of the city's accumulation fell on Saturday, surpassing the previous one-day mark of 24.1 inches on Feb. 12, 2006.
Officials say the total of 26.8 inches that fell in Central Park during the storm is the second-most since officials began keeping snowfall records in 1869. That narrowly misses tying the previous record of 26.9 inches from February 2006.
More snow elsewhere.
20 tractor-trailers still mired in Pennsylvania
11:20 a.m.
A stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike where more than 500 vehicles were stranded at the height of the storm remains closed.
Gov. Tom Wolf says officials hope to have traffic moving again by mid-afternoon Sunday.
He says only 20 tractor-trailers remained on the closed stretch of the roadway in the western part of the state.
Wolf says the rigs' drivers voluntarily stayed with their trucks and were "all safe and ready to get going."
On Saturday, pockets of stopped traffic stretched back miles.
Among the stranded were the Duquesne (doo-KAYN') University men's basketball team, the Temple University gymnastics squad and a church group from Indiana.
US blizzard 2016
The storm . . . . has affected some 85 million people, cutting power to 200,000 people.
The heaviest fall was recorded in Glengary, West Virginia, which had 42 inches.
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