Hundreds of flights have been canceled at New York’s major airports as a significant winter storm descends on the city and neighboring regions.

It wasn’t a white Christmas. But it will surely be a white weekend. An area of low pressure approaching the tri-state Friday is expected to bring accumulating snow by late afternoon into Saturday morning.

Intense snow bands with rates of 1 inch per hour are possible across parts of northern New Jersey during tonight's storm.

The snow and wintry weather is causing travel disruptions on one of the busiest travel days at Philadelphia International Airport. The lines were long Friday morning inside Terminal D, and even though the crowds thinned out by the afternoon, the rush was still on to beat the winter storm.

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory at 6:15 p.m. on Friday in effect until Saturday at 10 a.m. for Monroe County.

A state of emergency has been declared throughout New Jersey as a quick, but powerful winter storm is expected to dump 4 to 9 inches of snow and sleet across much of the state. The state of emergency takes effect at 1 p.m. and includes all 21 counties. A commercial vehicle restriction takes effect at 3 p.m.

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Despite lower snow totals, a winter storm Friday is expected to bring “quite messy” conditions to the Lehigh Valley.