File photo: 2009 accident on Empire Blvd. due to icy conditions. (Illustration photo)

Plunging Temperatures Lead to Icy Conditions

Concerns about falling temperatures and icy conditions on roads and sidewalks across the Northeast followed a late-season storm that plastered the region with sleet and snow.

Plunging overnight temperatures threatened to turn the snow, sleet and sloppy mix into a slippery mess, raising fears of black ice for motorists and slick sidewalks for pedestrians.

The storm, which followed a stretch of unusually mild winter weather, grounded more than 6,000 flights and knocked out power to nearly a quarter-million customers from Virginia northward.