After days of balmy weather, City is slated to get buried in snow and then hit with an arctic blast expected to unleash a potentially life-threatening chill.

The bitter cold becomes the big story after Sunday's snow with wind chills that will make it feel like zero for the first half of the week. Snow began falling by early Sunday afternoon with several inches expected to fall across New York City and the Tri-State area before it's over.

With a winter storm moving through the tri-state Sunday afternoon, the New York City metro area’s three major airports were all seeing delays and cancellations. As of 2 p.m. Eastern, Newark Liberty International was seeing 254 cancellations into or out of the airport and another 82 delays Sunday,

A winter storm expected to bring heavy snow to Philadelphia on Sunday is already impacting air travel. In Philadelphia and along the Interstate 95 corridor, expect 3-6 inches of snow to fall by the time the snowstorm wraps up Sunday night.

The winter storm hitting the tri-state area is significantly affecting air travel, causing cancellations and long delays for flights at John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark airports. A handful of flights scheduled to depart the tri-state area have already been canceled,