JetBlue Airways, Delta Air Lines, and other carriers resumed normal service, and rail service was operating normally.
At John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, hundreds of passengers were stranded for hours overnight because of the storm. The number of planes affected was unclear, but passengers were told the delays were linked to shortages of deicing fluid.
The weather was blamed for at least six traffic deaths in New Jersey, three in Pennsylvania, and one in Maryland, authorities said.
"We got the whole gamut there," Nelson Vaz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said early yesterday. He called it "a pretty impressive late-winter storm."
Up to 2 feet of snow fell in the northern Catskills and a foot or more fell in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Six inches of snow was reported in New York City.
A record 2.13 inches of rain fell at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. A winter storm warning remained in effect yesterday as the changeover to rain fueled concerns about possible river and coastal flooding, particularly around high tide.
Officials in Hartford and York, Pa., postponed their annual St. Patrick's Day parades yesterday.
New York did not cancel its event, and hundreds of thousands of people attended. It was the 246th incarnation of the New York parade, which typically draws 2 million spectators and 150,000 marchers.
The traditional green stripe was painted down the avenue by city workers last week, but it was scrubbed away by the salt and sand used to clear the roadway.
People walked the sidewalks in kilts or with dyed -green hair and eyebrows. A man wore green sneakers. An older woman wore a green cowboy hat and green disco-ball earrings. Even a police dog patrolling near St. Patrick's Cathedral wore a green bandanna.
Una Murray and her husband, Gerry Hampson, both 42, flew in from Dublin to join the celebration. "We came to party," said Murray, who also came dressed to impress.
She carried green, white, and orange balloons and wore a novelty pair of chaps with an Irish theme.
Hundreds of traffic accidents were blamed on the icy roads Friday, including one involving a vehicle in President Bush's motorcade traveling from Washington to Camp David. No one was injured.
