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Winter Storm Orlena dumped more two feet of snow in parts of eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey and southeast New York and the storm is winding down Tuesday in the Northeast.

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A man brushes snow off a car, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, in Lawrence, Mass. A sprawling, lumbering winter storm has walloped the Eastern U.S., shutting down coronavirus vaccination sites, closing schools and halting transit. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Winter Storm Orlena dumped more two feet of snow in parts of eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey and southeast New York and the storm is winding down Tuesday in the Northeast.

The storm's highest snow total was in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, at 31 inches.

New York City's Central Park reached 17.2 inches between late Sunday and early Tuesday. Orlena is the first storm in five years to bring a foot or more of snowfall to New York City.

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Lingering, light snowfall is expected on Tuesday from New England southward to New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C., with the greatest additional accumulations in northern New England.

(MORE: Winter Storm Orlena Winding Down Over the Northeast With Snow, Gusty Winds)

The storm is being blamed for the death of a 67-year-old woman in Pennsylvania. The woman, who had Alzheimer's disease, wandered away from her Allentown home and died of hypothermia, according to Lehigh Valley Live.

Hundreds of car accidents and disabled vehicles were caused by Orlena on Monday throughout New Jersey. All flights were cancelled Monday afternoon at New York's JFK airport. Flights are scheduled to resume later Tuesday, but the airport tweeted that cancellations and delays are possible, with 114 cancellations and 20 delays reported before 8 a.m. on Tuesday.

Click through the slideshow above to see photos of the storm's impacts.

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