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'Box trucks on the BQE spinning out,' McIntosh said, as the wind and snow whipped into Angeline's microphone. Kempthon McIntosh, a general contractor, described the scene he witnessed on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, one of the city's busiest thoroughfares and known to locals as 'the BQE.' In New York City, AccuWeather National Reporter Jillian Angeline spoke with a man who was out on the roads during the height of the storm due to the demands of his job. Central Park, New York City's official location for weather records, picked up a total of 8.3 inches of snow from the storm - just about 50 miles west of Islip, which topped 2 feet. There was what meteorologists refer to as a very tight snowfall gradient with this particular nor'easter. He was also pronounced dead at the hospital. On Saturday night, a 53-year-old man was found unresponsive and lying on his back with a shovel beside him. The first incident occurred on Saturday afternoon and involved a 75-year-old man who collapsed while shoveling snow in Syosset, he later died at the hospital. No further details on the victim were available with police reportedly describing the man as elderly.Īdditionally on Long Island, two men died while shoveling snow in what were separate incidents, according to WABC. According to The Suffolk Times, the man fell into a swimming pool and first responders were unable to revive him. According to NOAA, 100% of New England was covered in snow in the wake of the storm.įarther east on Long Island, in the hamlet of Cutchogue, police said a man died while shoveling snow on Saturday. Islip, which is east of New York City on Long Island and the location of New York City's NWS office, racked up 24.7 inches throughout the entirety of the storm. The nor'easter also bombarded coastal areas south of New England, dumping particularly heavy snowfall on Islip, New York, with a daily snowfall total of 22.9 inches. 29 of 3.7 inches, a record that had stood since 1928.Įlsewhere in New England, Providence, Rhode Island, shattered a daily snowfall record after reporting 18.8 inches on Saturday.

Additionally, Boston obliterated its previous daily record maximum snowfall for Jan. A report of 23.6 inches tied the highest single-day snowfall total set by the historic Blizzard of 2003. Numerous locations broke daily snowfall records on Saturday as the nor'easter slammed New England, including Boston. The National Weather Service (NWS) in Boston said measuring snowfall was proving to be difficult thanks to the high winds which were blowing the snow into towering drifts.

#Maine storm totals full#

Front-end loaders and plow trucks used by the city's public works department were out in full force to keep the roads as clear as possible. Roughly 20 miles southwest of the city in parts of Norfolk County, snowfall rates exceeded 4 inches per hour in the most robust bands of snow. As of early Sunday morning, the highest reported snowfall total was 30.9 inches in Stoughton, Massachusetts, about 20 miles southwest of Boston.īoston, where a snow emergency was in effect on Saturday, was hammered by prolific snowfall with rates of 2-4 inches per hour.

The winter storm, which AccuWeather forecasters had been warning since early in the week could unleash a huge snowfall on southern New England and other coastal areas, delivered the heaviest snowfall along the coasts, with snowfall totals topping 30 inches in eastern Massachusetts.

Officials have blamed at least three fatalities on conditions brought on by the storm. A ferocious nor'easter, which rapidly intensified into a bomb cyclone, slammed areas from the mid-Atlantic to Maine late Friday into Saturday with heavy snow and hurricane-force winds, resulting in a blizzard that generated whiteout conditions and dropped visibility to near zero in many areas.