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Winter Storm Neptune Brings Loads of Snow, Meteorological Rarities to New England
Winter Storm Neptune Brings Loads of Snow, Meteorological Rarities to New England
Jan 17, 2024 3:31 PM

Winter Storm Neptune’s high winds and heavy snow slammed New England on Sunday, shuttering transportation across several states.

In parts of Maine and Massachusetts, where some places already have several feet of snow on the ground from a weeks-long barrage of winter storms, Neptune dropped up to 22 inches of new snow Sunday.

In addition to blinding whiteout conditions, Neptune brought meteorological rarities to New England. On camera in Plymouth, Massachusetts, meteorologist Jim Cantore with The Weather Channel witnessed rare thundersnow up to six times. Thundersnow strikes the United States an average of 7.6 times a year, according to research from the University of Missouri. “You can have your $500 million jackpot. I’ve got my thundersnow,” Cantore said.

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Stay tuned to The Weather Channel for extended coverage of Winter Storm Neptune and Winter Storm Octavia.

Massachusetts

Winter Storm Neptune dropped another couple feet of snow on parts of Massachusetts Sunday. By midday, the snowfall had stopped, but state officials and officials from the city of Boston still urged residents off roads and indoors due to dangers from frigid temperatures and wind gusts reaching as high as 40 mph.

Massachusetts State Police Sunday reported several accidents, including a 20-car crash and a seven-car pileup, though victums sustained only minor injuries. A snow emergency and parking ban remain in effect Sunday night in Boston, though because of the varying nature of the storm, a state-wide ban had not been put in place.

Boston Logan International Airport canceled up to 500 flights Sunday, according to FlightAware. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , meaning all transportation by subway, trolley, rail, bus and ferry. Limited service was to be restored Monday. MBTA trains cleared snow and ice from the tracks:

For more details about Winter Storm Neptunes impact on Boston specifically and Massachusetts in general, click .

Maine

Snowfall had subsided Sunday evening for most of New England including Maine, but bone-chilling temperatures and wind gusts of up to 50 mph in parts of the state are still in store, with a in effect until noon EST Monday, Feb. 16. Winds could make overnight temperatures feel like 20 to 30 degrees below 0.

Cities across the state got varying snowfall accumulations. Robbinston, York Beach and Eastport received 25.4, 24 and 23.2 inches, respectively. Portland and Bangor each got just a few inches. For details of snowfall in other parts of Maine, click.

School superintendents were spared the decision of whether to order more snow days, as school vacation was already scheduled for next week, The Associated Press reported. Still, someacross Southern Maine and New Hampshire, according to WCSH, Portland’s NBC affiliate.The Portland Press Heraldsays that the storm caused the Snow Valley “Sno-Goers”snowmobile club to. “If the snowmobile club doesn’t go, it has to be bad,”club member George Thew told the paper. “After all, we are called the Sno-Goers.”

The METRO bus in Portland, Maine, ahead of approaching blizzard conditions, but restored service to normal Sunday evening and would offer Saturday schedules Monday for the holiday. canceled about 40 flights Sunday.

New Hampshire

Some places in New Hampshire saw double-digit snowfall from Winter Storm Neptune: Seabrook got 20 inches, Portsmouth got 15 inches and Nashua got 10 inches. Concord almost hit 10 inches, with total snowfall of 9.7 inches.

Neptune’s effect was felt in many different ways: Two apartment buildings in Portsmouth experienced Sunday morning, reported WMUR, the ABC affiliate in Manchester. No injuries were reported, though 215 families were relocated. And officials at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester scheduled for Sunday. The show was rescheduled for the summer.

canceled more than 50 flights Sunday, according to FlightAware.

As WMUR reports, . “I’m sick of it. I’m sick of the snow. I’m sick of looking at it. I want to go somewhere where it doesn’t snow anymore,” Eric St. Dennis told the station. “I’m done. I don’t know, me and Mother Nature aren’t eye-to-eye right now.”

Vermont

As with most places in New England, Vermont felt the wrath of Winter Storm Neptune, though the Green Mountain State as a whole avoided the massive dump other places saw. In Woodford, 7.5 inches fell, Bennington got 6 inches and Burlington got just over 2 inches. A remains in effect for the state until noon EST Monday.

Accidents marred travel across Vermont Saturday as Neptune brought whiteout conditions to the state. State police say that at least , WCAX reports.

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A woman walks through drifting snow in Cambridge, Mass., Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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