At the height of recent storms, known as nor’easters, more than two million homes and businesses lost power, seawater churned through the streets of Boston, and at least nine people died across the region.

“This storm won’t be as widespread as before,” said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

“It’ll hit New England the hardest,” he added.

Other areas that were severely affected before, including parts of New York, New Jersey, and Maryland will see only two to 10 centimetres (one to four inches) of snow this time around, Chenard said.

But blizzard conditions are possible and power outages are a threat for areas in Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, which are under the Winter Storm Watch from Monday evening to Tuesday afternoon, he said.