By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist and staff writer
February 10,2017, 4:04:07PM,EST
The biggest snowstorm to hit the northeastern United States so far this winter left behind over a foot of snow, widespread power outages and significant travel disruptions.
The system responsible for dropping nearly 2 feet of snow over parts of New England tracked across the Midwest on Wednesday and slowly strengthened as it moved over Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey on Wednesday night.The weather quickly deteriorated in cities such as New York City and Boston by the Thursday morning commute as the system continued to strengthen, eventually turning into a powerful blizzard. Snowfall rates exceeded 2 inches an hour, making travel almost impossible for a time.
There has been at least one fatality due to the storm after a man fell down stairs while shoveling in Manhattan.
Over 55,000 people were without power in Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Thursday afternoon, local utilities reported. This included all of the electric customers living in Yarmouth, Chilmark and Aquinnah Massachusetts.
Not only did the blizzard lead to major travel disruptions on the roads but also at airports all across the nation.
More than 4,000 flights were canceled across the United States on Thursday, almost all of them either flying out of or into the northeastern United States.
One flight headed from Atlanta to New York City’s JFK airport had to turn around in the middle of the flight due to poor weather conditions in the New York City area.
People across the region may continue to encounter travel issues as frigid air moving in behind the storm can lead to areas of black ice and slippery travel.
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Punki Guthrie ·
Wish they had this 70 drgrees we got! I hate it! Supposed to be winter 3
Betsy Remington ·
2ft of snow is not a blizzard
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Geoff Johnson ·
The amount of total accumulation doesn't make a blizzard, it's the rate of snowfall and wind.
Kristy Oyer ·
Cathy Singer, are you gals snowed in?
Cathy Singer ·
We were yesterday! I still worked a half day. Anja has a 4-day weekend!
Jeff Mead ·
so,
in boston the snow storm was most definately underwhelming and I'd say
it was a typical February snow storm. While everything was cancelled,
that was clearly unnecessary. NOTHING happened in terms of snow
accumulation until 2:00pm or so. It seems to me that in an attempt to
be overly cautious, every storm is now characterized as the storm of all
storms. The weather folks need to dial down the warning rhetoric and
focus more on precision in thier forecast. The mass closings yesterday
came at a tremendous ecomonic cost.
Geoff Johnson ·
Really?
I live in the seacoast of NH and was driving from 11AM-2PM and it was
most definitly a blizzard. Visibility was so poor I couldn't see more
than 1-2 cars in front, road signs and the road itself was barely
visible.
Chan Roberts ·
Oh, please! This is nothing unusual. Knick it off with the sensationalism!
Mary Jo Logan ·
Works at Home Daycare
Honestly,this
storm was an underachiever.Most areas got 6-10 inches,instead of the
12-18 that they predicted.It seems like Meteorologists are trying to
make too much out of an average storm.
Michelle Cousineau ·
Washington County Maine got smacked. 12 inches minimum, 24 inch drifts.
Geoff Johnson ·
Areas around me received 12-17", definitely within the 10-16" prediction.
Georgia Adamson ·
We
got at least 10 inches in Marlborough, MA--maybe a bit more--and the
wind was really blowing it around for at least a few hours. (I think the
prediction for our area was maybe 12 inches or so.)
Kate Scarlett
Am I correct that a lot of those power outages were on Cape Cod and points south?
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