![]() ![]() More than 3,580 flights within, into or out of the US were canceled Saturday, according to FlightAware, and more than a thousand are already canceled for Sunday. The storm became a “bomb cyclone” Saturday morning, meaning the storm strengthened rapidly and had the barometric pressure drop more than 24 millibars within 24 hours, the Weather Prediction Center said. Up to 2 feet of snow could fall by Sunday morning from Long Island through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, CNN forecasters said. The city’s 14 inches of snow Saturday also beat its previous record for the calendar date, which was set in 2014 at 7.3 inches.Īs the storm pummeled through, several other areas crushed previous January 29 snowfall records, including New York’s Central Park, which recorded 7.3 inches, beating the previous record of 4.7 inches set in 1904, and Philadelphia, which saw 5.8 inches of snow Saturday, beating the previous record of 5 inches, also set in 1904. Live updates: Nor'easter slams the Northeast The prior monthly record of 20.3 inches was set in January 1987. It had received about 19.2 inches prior to the storm and added another 14 inches Saturday, CNN meteorologist Gene Norman said Saturday afternoon. The city crushed its all-time January snowfall record by Saturday, reaching a staggering monthly total of 33.2 inches of snow. In New Jersey’s Atlantic City, howling wind whipped snow sideways earlier Saturday, and a CNN crew there could barely see anything a block away. “Hunker down for 24 hours, and sometime tomorrow, you’ll be able to go back out and resume some of your normal activities,” Tom Guthlein, Rhode Island’s acting director of emergency management, said early Saturday. Some governments in the Northeast banned vehicle travel for parts of the day, including Rhode Island through midnight, with a tractor-trailer ban in place until midnight. Strong winds pushed seawater ashore in parts of coastal Massachusetts and elsewhere earlier in the day, causing some street flooding. “This is coming down hard and fast, and so it’s been historic,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told CNN Saturday evening. The previous record was set on January 27, 2015, when the city received 22.1 inches of snow.īoston could also soon beat its all-time one-day snowfall record of 23.6 inches, which was set on February 17, 2003. The town of Sharon, Massachusetts, recorded a staggering 30.4 inches of snowfall by Saturday night, according to the National Weather Service.īoston’s Logan Airport had recorded at least 23.3 inches of snow by Saturday night, according to the National Weather Service, making Saturday the snowiest January day Boston has recorded. ![]() Parts of eastern Massachusetts, Long Island and Rhode Island saw more than two feet of snow and blizzard conditions, and a few areas in Massachusetts saw hurricane-force wind gusts, with Cape Cod getting the strongest gales. Light to moderate snowfall will continue into the evening, with snow expected to end in the eastern part of Massachusetts by 11 p.m., the governor’s office said. Much of the Northeast can expect “dangerous” wind chills, some dipping below zero, Sunday morning as the storm makes its way out, the service said. ![]() Of those, seven million were under blizzard warnings.īlizzard warnings are expected to remain in effect through Sunday morning for eastern Massachusetts and most of Maine.Ī blizzard, by the National Weather Service’s definition, requires blowing or falling snow, winds of at least 35 miles per hour, and visibility of a quarter-mile or less for at least three hours.īlizzard conditions are possible into early Sunday from eastern Massachusetts to eastern Maine, the National Weather Service said. Much of the East Coast was covered with a thick blanket of snow Saturday night, with several areas reporting record snowfall totals, and officials across the region urged residents to stay put as the fierce nor’easter made its way through the country’s northeastern tip.Īcross the Northeast, roughly 16 million people were under some type of winter weather alert Saturday night.
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