NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Houston recorded its earliest snowfall, beating a previous record by nearly a week, meteorologists said Saturday.
Houston's rare snowfall came Friday, besting previous records for earliest snowfalls set Dec. 10 in both 1944 and 2008.
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The inch or so of snow throughout metro Houston delayed flights at the city's airport and led to icy roads and two fatal traffic accidents, the Houston Chronicle reported Saturday.
Elsewhere in the nation, the season's first widespread snowstorm pushed into the Northeast Saturday, disrupting travel for many as far south as Tennessee, Accuweather reported.
Snow was to continue spreading northward from New York City to Boston and into Pennsylvania through Saturday night.
A snowstorm, in many areas the first of the season, has impacted much of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada today and is expected to continue until early on Sunday morning. Cities closer to the coast first received rain this morning and early afternoon, but precipitation has changed over to snow as the low pressure system moves northeastward and gains strength.

Forecasters say the storm is related to the same system that brought record-breaking snowfall to the Houston, Texas region a few days ago. 

Most locations will pick up a few inches of snow when all is said and done, enough to cause widespread travel delays and traffic accidents throughout the area. Accordingly, the National Weather Service has issued several winter weather warnings stretching from the South through Maine. Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for Atlantic Canada and is expecting 15 to 30 centimeters of snow.

By midday Sunday, the storm will have pulled out of the region, leaving behind clearing skies. 

Meanwhile, a winter storm hit southern Alberta, Canada on Friday causing blizzard like conditions and dumping over 20 centimeters of snow.

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