By Kevin Byrne, AccuWeather staff writer
December 30,2016, 8:25:27AM,EST
As of 7:15 a.m. EST, this story is no longer being updated.
A winter storm dropped feet of snow over parts of New England on Thursday and into early Friday morning.
The potent storm caused messy travel and led to one fatal accident in Vermont. Thundersnow was reported in Boston and Portland, Maine.
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As of 3:30 a.m., Naples, Maine, received 27 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.
The highest snow total for Massachusetts is 10.8 inches in Fitchburg.
As of 1:30 a.m. on Friday, Androscoggin, Maine, reportedly received 14 inches of snow in five hours, a rate of nearly 3 inches of snow per hour.
York, Maine, had as much as 25.6 inches of snow as of 1:00 a.m., reported by a trained spotter
As much as 24 inches of snow have been reported in York County, Maine. The report came in at 11:04 p.m. on Thursday in the town of Acton over social media.
Additionally, Oxford, Maine, reported a rate of 2 inches of snow per hour, reaching a total of 14 inches by 11:50 p.m.
The Portland International Jetport reported a thundersnow at 9:51 p.m.
A fatal accident was reported in Cornwall, Vermont, on Route 74 Thursday afternoon. Robert Fields was pronounced dead at Porter Hospital in Middlebury, according to a statement from the Vermont State Police.
At around 1:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Fields' car was westbound when it veered off the road and collided with a tree. According to police, the roads were slippery as snow was falling at the time of the crash.
Over a foot of snow has fallen in parts of southeastern New Hampshire and southern Maine as of 9 p.m. EST Thursday, including the town of Waterboro, Maine, located southwest of Portland.
So far, the town has received over 17 inches of snow with an NWS trained spotter measuring 13.2 inches in just 4 hours.
The heavy snow has lead to snow-packed and power outages across the region with Eversource reporting nearly 2,000 power outages in New Hampshire and Central Maine Power reporting nearly 4,000 outages.
The heaviest snow was falling from southern Maine to central Massachusetts on Thursday evening with some locations picking up several inches of snow in under one hour.
Thundersnow was reported just west of Boston as a heavy band of snow moved over the area.
Here is a list of snowfall reports through Thursday evening:
| City, State | Snow total |
| Hollis, Maine | 9.2” |
| Madison, New Hampshire | 8” |
| Rochester, New Hampshire | 8” |
| Waterboro, Maine | 7” |
| Concord, New Hampshire | 5.8” |
| Ashby, Massachusetts | 6.2” |
| Burlington, Vermont | 2.9” |
As of 5:00 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 29, road conditions are deteriorating across New England.
There will be very cold wind chill readings on the way the next 24 hours.
As of 4:30 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 29, Traffic at Burlington International Airport (BTV) in Vermont is experiencing gate hold and taxi delays.
As of 3 p.m. EST Thursday, a moderate to heavy snow is producing poor driving conditions across Vermont. Motorists are being urged to drive with caution.
Road crews in Massachusetts are already hard at work as the snow continues to fall across the state. The speed limit has been reduced to 40 mph along the Massachusetts Turnpike from the New York border to Springfield, Massachusetts.
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