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The nor'easter storm already has left tens of thousands without power and led to thousands of cancelled flights.
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States of emergency have been declared in multiple US states including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Several have instituted travel restrictions or bans due to the blizzard and thousands of flights have been cancelled.
Forecasters say much of the US north-east and the maritimes provinces will be affected from Sunday evening to Monday.
It's expected to be the most powerful nor'easter storm in nearly a decade for much of the region, bringing snow, fierce winds and coastal flooding.
As of midnight local time (05:00 GMT) on Monday, much of the north-east had already been blanketed in several inches of snow, with 10 inches (25cm) reported in Manorville, New York and Howell, New Jersey, according to the US National Weather Service (NWS).
It has warned that the storm will bring an estimated 2-3 inches (5-7cm) could fall per hour during the storm, and snowfall can reach 1-2ft (30-60cm), resulting in "nearly impossible" travel conditions that were "extremely treacherous".
About 40 million people are under blizzard warning, and another 19 million are under winter storm warnings, which cover the Central Appalachians from North Carolina to coastal Maine.
"While we do get plenty of these nor'easters that produce heavy snow and strong impacts, it's been several years since we saw one of this magnitude across this large of a region in this very populated part of the country," Cody Snell, a meteorologist at the NWS's Weather Prediction Center, told the BBC's US partner CBS News.
Power cuts have affected more than 150,000 people in the north-eastern states so far, including 60,000 in New Jersey alone. Tens of thousands more are without power in Virginia, Delaware and Maryland, according to tracker PowerOutage.us.
About 5,500 US flights were cancelled on Sunday and hundreds of others were delayed, according to monitor FlightAware.
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