Snow up to 8 inches also is forecast for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Up to 20 inches of snow piled up in central and western parts of the state.
Driving conditions in parts of north Wales remain treacherous after heavy snow moved up from the south.
BBC: Wales snow: Roads closed as weather moves to north Wales
The storm could linger a bit longer in parts of eastern Long Island, which might see a bit more snow pile up.
Persistent snow moved up into the Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, and Bridgend areas, along with western parts of the Vale of Glamorgan.
More than half of Interstate 70 in Kansas and Kansas City International Airport were closed as snow fell up to two inches per hour in some areas.
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Snow piled up so high in places that many residents found they could not open their doors to leave their homes on Saturday, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Summer visitors see grazing reindeer and Sami camps, and in winter a special bus follows a snow plow up the final eight miles to reach the 1, 000-foot high plateau where, bracing against the winds, you get to stand beside the iconic North Cape globe for photographic proof positive that you have literally stood at the top of the world.
In the Staffordshire Moorlands, there were reports of drivers getting trapped in snow drifts of up to 4ft (1m) and snow affecting traffic in Leek.
The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning through early Saturday afternoon and predicted up to 2 feet of snow and wind gusts of up to 60 mph.
Outside her third-floor office, snow is piling up around the company's famed sculpture garden in Purchase, N.
Strong winds are expected to accompany the snow, gusting up to 55 mph.
Artificial snow can make up for a thin snowfall, but it is expensive.
When you see the ice at the end of the glacier, you are looking at snow that fell up to 800 years ago.
Elsewhere, motorists have been warned to make journeys only if necessary following heavy snow, with up to four inches falling near Brecon in Powys.
In sun, rain or snow she was up there, digging down through the turf and the fibrous black peat until she hit bare rock.
"A race is going on in Greenland between these competing forces of snow build-up in the interior and ice loss on the edges, " explained Dr Zwally.
There have been about 100 calls from both farmers and members of the public offering help to find the sheep under snow drifts of up to 20ft.
They said they had spent the Easter period searching for their animals in snow drifts of up to 15ft (4.57m) in mid and north Wales, but hundreds did not survive.
Last week, Frank Jackson, who farms on the fells at Marton, near Ulverston, said he had lost at least 60 pregnant ewes in snow drifts of up to 20ft (6 metres).
Heavy snow - reaching up to 20cm on higher ground - was forecast for the worst-hit areas, along with a number of yellow "be aware" warnings across the rest of the country.
Authorities still were reporting snow drifts of up to 10 feet high in southeast Colorado, and Texas officials warned drivers to stay off the road in the Panhandle so crews would have a clear path to remove ice and snow.
Springfield, in central Illinois, got slammed with a record 17 inches of snow, and several central Indiana counties declared snow emergencies after getting hit with up to 8 inches of snow.
In Flintshire, large areas of up to 450mm (18ins) of lying snow is reported, with drifts up to 6m (20ft) in some rural areas.
It is so deep I can simply walk up the snow bank on to the roof.
"The snow has everyone stocking up on groceries, " she said in a Twitter post.
The episode also dealt a tiny bit with Jon Snow and Sam Tarly up beyond the Wall.
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That small, hazy picture shows a ghostly climber (the effect of the long exposure required) slogging up a snow field on the Wetterhorn.
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