After days of balmy weather, New York City is slated to get buried in snow and then hit with an arctic blast expected to unleash a potentially life-threatening chill.

The post-winter storm dig out has started in New York City and across the Tri-State after the region was blanketed with several inches of snow on Sunday. Now, the area is bracing for the coldest temperatures in two years over the next few days.

An arctic air mass settled over New York City and much of the country Sunday evening, bringing a deep freeze and the chance of more snow than the city has seen in three years. Between 3 and 5 inches of snow was expected in five boroughs overnight,