#Maine storm totals update

in New Hampshire was Windsor, a Hillsborough county town, with 20 inches. The highest snowfall report of the day as of 3 p.m. “It’s that really heavy, wet stuff,” he said. By 3 p.m., Rochester, for example, had about 7 inches of snow, he said. “This is a rapidly changing environment now that we have this band setting up,” Pohl said. People should also make sure to have batteries, candles and matches on hand, along with flashlights and a radio.Pummeling the Seacoast with rain to start, then snow and high winds, a winter storm rapidly accumulated snow Tuesday across New Hampshire and southern Maine, leading to power outages.Īndy Pohl, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's location in Gray, Maine, said communities from southern Maine to southwestern New Hampshire would see 2-3 inches of snowfall per hour over a period of several hours in the afternoon and evening. People who might be affected by power and water outages should take precautions such as filling bathtubs to provide water for flushing toilets and filling containers with drinking water, reports Connecticut Public Radio. 'It's going to be very easy for these tree limbs to fall down from the amount of weight, and then also the strong winds,' Palmer said. Heavy snow could bring 'significant power outages' that last for days, reports Maine Public Radio, citing John Palmer of the National Weather Service office in Gray. States warn of a long-lasting storm and disruptions In Massachusetts, the state lowered the speed limit to 40 mph on a stretch of Interstate 90, as it deployed more than 900 pieces of equipment to clear snow and ice. Through Tuesday night, the NWS says, snow is expected to fall at rates of 2 to 3 inches or more each hour, driven by strong winds. 'Snowfall totals 12 inches or higher are forecast over large portions of New England and Upstate New York,' the National Weather Service says, adding that 24-30 inches of snow are possible in some areas.īeth Reilly, background, cross-country skis with her children, Noah, 7, in the middle, and Annelies, 5, during a snowstorm in Waterbury, Vt., on Tuesday. ET, a total of nearly 250,000 electricity customers ET, Windsor, Mass., reported 28 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service office in Albany, N.Y.īy 1:3o p.m.

each had accumulated 3 feet of snow by Tuesday night. 232,510 households remained in the dark.įive towns - Marlboro, Vt., Colrain, Mass., Moriah, N.Y., Stony Creek, N.Y., and Palenville, N.Y. Power outages reached a high of about 270,000 households in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut and Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon according to PowerOutage.US, and companies appear to be struggling to restore services. New York and New England can expect an additional snowfall between 3 to 8 inches overnight, the NWS added. G5omBGhmSl- NWS Weather Prediction Center March 14, 2023

#Maine storm totals update

A Winter Key Messages update for the Nor'easter lingering in the Gulf of Maine tonight.

ET, the National Weather Service warned that while the rate of snowfall that has been battering the area during the past 24 hours is expected to slow from 2 to 3 inches to about 1-inch per hour, the combination of 'strong winds and the heavy-wet nature of the snow that has fallen, will result in further power outages and tree damage.' In the meantime, millions of people across the region are under winter alerts.Īs of 6 p.m. In California, heavy rains intensified on Tuesday and left more than a quarter of a million customers without power in that state, according to .įorecasters said the first nor'easter of the season is expected to last through Wednesday morning. The storms in the Northeast are part of weather systems affecting both U.S. Northeastern states are being pummeled by an intensifying storm that is dropping several several feet of snow in some places and left roughly a quarter of a million customers without power by Tuesday evening. The storm is expected to continue into early Wednesday. Plows, at right, try to pass crawling traffic in the snow on Route 93 South in Londonderry, N.H., Tuesday.