The snow has continued to pick up in waves of intensity. Plow trucks have had a hard time keeping up with the rapid snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches plus per hour and at times in eastern New England in the most intense snow bands, 2 to 4 inches per hour. The snow has been fast and furious throughout the day, making travel dangerous. NWS Boston JanuHow much snow will we get?Ī widespread 18 to 28 inches of snow was forecast for Boston, Providence, the New Hampshire coast to Portland, Maine, and the upper Cape. We'll see 10 to 18 inches on the outer Cape and Nantucket with more mixing, and 10 to 18 inches in western Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut, with totals dropping off quickly west of there to 2 to 4 inches in the Berkshires. See the following public information statement for more details on where blizzard conditions occurred as well as how we determine whether or not blizzard criteria was met. The Boston area's modern snowfall record is 27.6 inches, set in 2003.īlizzard conditions confirmed at several locations today. Forecasters watched closely for new snowfall records, especially in Boston.
Winds gusted as high as 83 mph on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The storm thrashed parts of 10 states, with blizzard warnings that stretched from Virginia to Maine.īoston was in the crosshairs, and the city could get more than 2 feet of snow by the time it moves out early Sunday. Massachusetts banned heavy trucks from interstate highways. In West Hartford, Connecticut, a tractor-trailer jackknifed on Interstate 84, closing several lanes. Rhode Island, all of which was under a blizzard warning, banned all nonemergency road travel. The nor'easter with hurricane-force wind gusts battered much of the East Coast on Saturday, flinging heavy snow that made travel treacherous or impossible, flooding coastlines, and threatening to leave bitter cold in its wake. 0.Get Boston local news, weather forecasts, lifestyle and entertainment stories to your inbox. West Warwick, Rhode Island - 4.3 inches West Warwick, Rhode Island - 4.8 inches West Greenwich, Rhode Island - 7 inches Milton, Mass., Blue Hill Observatory - 1.9 inches 7 a.m. - West Greenwich, Rhode Island - 7.5 inches.West Warwick, Rhode Island - 5.7 inches West Greenwich, Rhode Island - 8.3 inches Some locations are listed more than once, because multiple reports were entered throughout the duration of the winter storm. Here are earlier snowfall totals, reported from the Eastern Massachusetts Amateur Radio Service. Get Boston local news, weather forecasts, lifestyle and entertainment stories to your inbox. Manchester Airport, New Hampshire - 2 inches East Canterbury, New Hampshire - 3 inches Here are some of the latest snowfall reports compiled by the National Weather Service: While some areas, like Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood, barely got an inch of snow, other areas in New England saw up to 8 inches. After a winter that has so far proven to be pretty uneventful in terms of big snowfall events, New Englanders are waking up to some snow on the ground Tuesday as a storm brings wintry conditions to the region.
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