A new winter storm - the second in a week - promises to dump up to five inches of snow on New York tonight ( Wednesday ) and tomorrow . And Washington , DC , Baltimore and Philadelphia will get hit even harder - with up to 10 inches . The snow will begin tonight in New York City and continue through tomorrow afternoon - marking the 13th day this winter that the city has seen at least an inch of snow , Accuweather.com meteorologist Alyson Hoegg told Daily Mail Online . There is light at the end of this snowy tunnel , however . Forecasters predict this will likely be the last snow storm of the season - or at least the last until mid-March . Boston is a little more than 2 inches shy of its all-time snowfall record , and meteorologists are predicting 1 to 2 inches to fall . Not again ! The newest winter storm will dump up to 10 inches of snow in some parts of West Virginia and Kentucky - though New York will see between two and five inches . Homeowner Steve Showalter , of Benscreek , Pa. , in Somerset County , uses an ice pick to clear ice jams along his driveway as the Benscreek River flows over it , Wednesday . On Wednesday , schools from Texas to West Virginia were closing early and Penn State canceled classes due to weather for the first time in eight years . About 1,200 flights were canceled , including 600 in and out of Dallas-Fort Worth . Residents of Kentucky and West Virginia dealt with flooded roadways and mudslides . In Arkansas , high school basketball playoff games were postponed until Thursday . Mike Halpert , deputy director of the National Weather Service 's Climate Prediction Center , said the storm 'might be winter 's last hurrah . ' After the storm and maybe a couple of cold days into the weekend , the next couple weeks are forecast to be considerably warmer than normal for a large chunk of the country , Halpert said . But Halpert 's office , which does longer term forecasts , does predict colder than normal for snow-struck New England and only normal temperatures — which would be warmer than recent weeks — for the rest of the Northeast . Likewise , AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski says the storm could be winter 's 'caboose . ' Some Bostonians are clamoring for a little more snow so they can break a record . 88 million and counting : The winter storm stretches from New Mexico through the Midwest , up to New England . The weather will clear on Friday - though the northeast will continue to experience below-average cold . Clearing Saturday : As the storm passes , the weekend will be clear and warmer for much of the country . So far this winter , the city has received 105.5 inches of snow — more than 8 1/2 feet , the National Weather Service says . The record is 107.6 inches recorded during the 1995-96 season . Records date to 1872 . Having endured weeks of misery , residents like Erin O'Brien insist they deserve bragging rights . Otherwise what was the point of repeatedly digging out ? ' I want the record . We earned the record , ' said O'Brien , a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston . Others do n't care about the record . Amy Ouellette , a marketing associate in Salem , north of Boston , just wants spring and sun to come and melt it all away . Officials are blaming heavy , wet snow for a partial barn roof collapse that killed at least five cows Wednesday morning in central New York . The collapse at the Whey Street Dairy in Cuyler , 25 miles southeast of Syracuse , was one of hundreds of roof collapses blamed on heavy snow in the Northeast this winter . Massachusetts officials say they 've received reports of nearly 200 roof collapses since Feb. 9 . No one was injured Wednesday morning when a 100-foot by 100-foot section of the roof of Boston 's vacant Bayside Expo Center collapsed . The building was previously slated for demolition . No injuries were reported in a four tractor-trailer crash that closed an icy road in rural western New York . The Daily News of Batavia reports the trucks either collided or went off the road in drizzle and snow around 5 a.m. on Route 63 in the Genesee County town of Bethany , 32 miles southwest of Rochester . Bad weather Tuesday night turned an Ohio State men 's basketball team trip to Penn State from an easy one-hour plane ride into an 8½-hour ordeal . Icy runways in State College , Pennsylvania , forced the team 's plane to land in Latrobe , about 110 miles away . After landing , the team 's student managers tweeted : 'weather conditions have the team stranded in the Pennsylvania wilderness . managers have been sent to find and salvage anything edible . ' The managers joked they ordered pizzas — 25 large and scalding hot — to avoid being eaten by hungry players . The team took a bus the rest of the way to Penn State , traveling at times through dense fog and rain , for the Wednesday night game . Gloria Alexander , pastor of the Church of Broken Pieces in Minersville , Pa. , shovels the wintry mix from the sidewalk in front of her church , Wednesday .
Winter storm will hit Wednesday afternoon and into Thursday night . 88million people are under a winter weather watch or warning storm brings snow and ice from New Mexico to Massachusetts . Two to five inches of snow expected for New York City ; up to eight inches for Washington , Baltimore and Philadelphia . Meteorologists predict this could be the last winter storm of the season .