Officials warned of possible power outages, and north-facing or vulnerable coastal areas could suffer flooding and beach erosion, the weather service said. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority canceled all rail, bus and ferry service in the Boston area on Sunday.īabcock said gusts could max out at 75 mph – hurricane territory – on Cape Cod. “Even after the snow stops, high winds and strong gusts could limit the ability of airlines to resume normal operations.” “Once the winter weather passes, airlines will begin re-accommodating passengers affected by cancellations and delays,” Massport officials said, according to CBS Boston. Nearly 400 Sunday flights were canceled at Boston’s Logan International Airport, and none was scheduled Sunday morning. Transportation officials in the region had taken precautions. “Please stay off the roads … so the crews can do the work they need to do to remove this snow.” “I can’t stress this enough,” Baker said. Baker stopped short of an outright travel ban. Gina Raimondo in Rhode Island warned motorists to stay off the roads. “On Sunday, the best thing people can do is stay home, stay indoors,” said William Babcock, another weather service meteorologist. Winds across the area were also increasing in intensity.īefore it is all over, southern New England could get several more inches and Maine could see up to 2 feet, weather forecasters said. Boston was also getting hit with heavy snow. Three to eight inches of snow had fallen across parts of the region with the heaviest in Boxford in Essex County, which recorded 13 inches, Dunham said. Heavy snow had moved into parts of eastern Massachusetts by early Sunday, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Alan Dunham. If Boston gets more than 10 inches, as predicted, it will have seen more snow in the past three weeks than Chicago has ever had in an entire winter. More than 6 feet of snow already stood in some areas from previous storms a blizzard warning was in effect for coastal communities from Connecticut to Maine into Monday and a bone-chilling blast of cold, with lows of minus 10 degrees was in the Sunday night forecast in parts of the region.īoston is about to set the record for the snowiest month ever recorded since records started being kept in 1891, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.
The latest storm brought a new round of wind-whipped snow to New England, accompanied by near-whiteout conditions and lighting strikes in coastal areas.Ī blizzard warning was in effect for coastal communities from Rhode Island to Maine, with no reprieve in sight: A bone-chilling blast of cold, with lows of minus-10 degrees was in the Sunday night forecast in parts of the region.
Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.īOSTON – Snow and dangerously high winds roared across parts of New England in the dark of night to face an army of road crews and emergency workers Sunday, who had readied themselves for the fourth winter onslaught in less than a month. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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