A winter storm impacted the East Coast on Jan. 29, known as a bomb cyclone.
More than 100,000 customers lost electricity over the weekend due to the heavy snow and wind, reported NPR.
According to Energy company Eversource in a news release, it had 1,700 crews working to restore power in Massachusetts after relief was sent in from Connecticut and New Hampshire.
The worst of the storm was felt across the Northeast, especially in New England. Power outages were still affecting nearly 62,000 Massachusetts residents as of early Jan. 30 morning, reported The New York Times.
According to Glenn Field, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norton, Massachusetts, some areas in Massachusetts had received three to four inches of snow per hour Jan. 29 morning, reported radar estimates.
Heavy snow and wind gusts of more than 70 miles per hour in some locations occurred as well.
The National Weather Service reported 9.5 inches of snow in Wallops Island, Virginia.
Additionally, the 23.6 inches of snow that fell on Jan. 29 tied the single-day record for Boston that was set in 2003, according to a tweet by the Boston National Weather Service.
A bomb cyclone occurs when barometric pressure drops rapidly over 24 hours, producing high winds, and as they pick up moisture, result in heavy snow.
Blizzard conditions were confirmed in at least four states, including Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, reported The New York Times.
New York City avoided most of the storm, although parts of Jersey Shore, eastern Long Island and Connecticut, and points north were impacted. Governors in New Jersey and New York preemptively declared states of emergency. There was also coastal flooding on Jan. 29 on Cape Cod and in the streets of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Nantucket officials and American Red Cross volunteers opened an emergency warming shelter and emergency centers were also open on the Cape, reported The New York Times.
“We’re in the throes of this nor’easter — it is a serious one,” said Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York at a storm briefing on Jan. 29, reported The New York Times. “You cannot have people in their homes without heat for any length of time.”
AccuWeather meteorologists are tracking the makings of a winter storm which is forecast to spread a plowable snow and significant icing from the central and southern Rockies to parts of the Northeast this week. Denver, Dallas and Detroit are expected to face these storm conditions.
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