As Expected, Nor'easter Blasts East, Vermont In For Long Haul Snow

Satellite image this morning of the third
beastly nor'easter in three weeks
here in New England

As of 8 a.m. this morning, things were going downhill quickly in eastern New England, as expected, with the latest big nor'easter behaving pretty much as expected.  

It started out as rain early this morning in southeastern New England, but now the temperature has dropped, the wind has picked up and snow has the snow.

The snow down there is wet and heavy, at least for now, so they can expect more big time power failures. There were already reports of up to 40,000 power outages in Massachusetts as of 8:30 a.m.

As the snow intensifies in eastern New England, nobody should be out driving.

Once again, the coastline is taking a beating. This morning's high tide will bring more flooding to places like Scituate and Plymouth. It looks like the ocean side of Cape Cod, Nantucket Harbor and the east side of Nantucket are going to be hit hard.

There's already been incredible beach erosion on the east side of Cape Cod and Nantucket from the previous two big nor'easters. This is just going to make matters much worse. Massachusetts is literally smaller in area than it was back in February.

The snow was just beginning to move up into New Hampshire and Maine as of 8 a.m. this morning.

All of eastern New England from Rhode Island to Maine can expect 12 to 18 inches of snow out of this, with local amounts to two feet. The snow will come down at a rate of one to three inches per hour at times with this.

As this photo shows, heavy, wet snow was already affecting
trees and power lines in eastern Massachusetts, and the worst
of the storm was only just arriving. 

Winds gusting to 60 mph along the coast and the heavy snow have meant the blizzard warnings remain in effect along the immediate Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine coasts, including the cities of Boston, Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine.

Gusts of 65 mph have already been reported in Edgartown, Massachusetts

I'm sure they're getting tired of this repeated rinse and repeat destruction cycles along the coast and in the big cities of southern New England.

HERE IN VERMONT

Yep, it's snowing again. As expected, the snow won't come down hard for most of this, but it will keep snowing, and snowing, and snowing, and it will eventually add up.

In far southern Vermont, bands of heavier snow from the main nor'easter look like they might reach that area.

That's bad for the higher elevations of the southern Green Mountains, which have been thumped by both of the past nor'easters with one to three feet of new snow each time. Another foot or more could come down with this one.

Car crashes were already closing roads in Massachusetts
early this morning. 

For the rest of us, especially in northern Vermont, some areas will probably close in on a foot of new snow as well, but it will take until Wednesday night or Thursday to get there.

We're on the western edge of the nor'easter, so steady light snow today will accumulate to about two to four inches today.

Then, another two to five inches comes down tonight, then probably many areas will get two to four inches more on Wednesday as the storm spins around northeast of us. So you can see how that adds up to six to 12 inches.

More snow, especially in the northern mountains, will continue Wednesday night and Thursday, with additional accumulations.

Also, I hope you like snow. The trend will be toward colder temperatures, so there won't be any real thawing to speak of through at least next Monday, and probably beyond that. And, guess what? There's the possibility - only the possibility at this point - of another nor'easter sometime next week.