Northeast digs out after storm closes schools, slows commute

BOSTON (AP) — Temperatures are warming, the sun is shining and snow is melting after a storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the northeastern U.S. overnight, prompting school closures, power outages and a messy Monday morning commute.

But the spring-like warm up won't last: temperatures are expected to plunge into the teens overnight and linger for most of the week, raising the risk of dangerously icy conditions, warned Bryce Williams, a Boston-area meteorologist for the National Weather Service.

"Well, we finally got a good one. We've been waiting a whole winter and it finally came," said Michael Raab as he used a snow blower to clear his driveway in the Boston suburb of Arlington, Massachusetts, on Monday.