The heavy, wet snow has been bringing down trees and tree limbs throughout the region.
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Travel was treacherous; police across the region reported dozens of spinouts. That means even though we’re on the edge (again), we’ll still set to pick up several inches of snow.
Other parts of the Northeast, including Northern New England and the New York City area, were expected to get much less snow.
The forecast calls for 4 to 8 inches of snow in Providence Friday, but only 1 to 3 inches on Block Island.
Early Saturday, utility Eversource reported about 20,000 outages in Connecticut, National Grid reported about 21,000 customers without electricity in Rhode Island and the two major utilities in MA reported about 80,000 combined.
The coastal storm that’s pounding MA isn’t expected to amount to much in ME and New Hampshire, states that rely on heavy snow to drive their economies.
More than 22,000 Rhode Island customers were without power as of this afternoon.
“The snow is going to start [Monday] morning and move southeast to northwest”, Haney explained.
The state Transportation Department said it had deployed more than 2,100 pieces of snow-clearing and road-treating equipment.
Central and southern New Hampshire, including Manchester and Nashua, could get 5 inches (13 centimeters) of snow, with Boston picking up almost a foot, according to the National Weather Service.
A strong and rapidly intensifying storm is set to batter New England from the early hours of Monday morning with white-out conditions and winds of up to 50 mph expected.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch from Monday night through Tuesday evening for Burlington, Cumberland, Atlantic, Cape May counties.
Fairfield Prep has canceled classes Monday.
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Snow totals are expected to range from 1 to 3 inches in extreme western CT to 3 to 5 or more inches in the central part of the state to 4 to 8 inches in eastern CT.
