Mayor Wu has declared a cold emergency for Friday into Sunday due to temperatures and wind chills that could fall well below freezing. Read more.
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MassDOT reports the perennially flooded Morrissey Boulevard was re-opened to traffic around 2:15 p.m., after Dorchester Bay receded back to sea level.
Capturegirl smithily photographed the flooded road today.
The Neponset River Greenway Council reports the Greenway Trail in the Cedar Grove/Granite Avenue area could flood at high tide around 11 a.m. on Sunday, Monday at noon and Tuesday around 1 p.m.
Mark Smith walked under the Needham Line arch at the end of Archdale Road in Roslindale and into a snowy Arnold Arboretum this morning.
An old tradition among Jewish reporters is to take shifts on Christmas Eve and Christmas day so that their Christian co-workers can take the time off. Harvey Leonard came out of retirement tonight to give one of his former weather colleagues time off.
H/t Monica.
Nicholas Agri watched one of his neighbors rowing down Banks and Morton streets by Belle Isle Marsh in Winthrop today.
Morrissey Boulevard? Long Wharf? Winthrop Drive? All shut at the morning high tide as wind-whipped waves came ashore. But also Day Boulevard in South Boston. Read more.
MEMA reports that as of 9:15 a.m., 74,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts have lost power.
The Eversource outage map so far shows only a few scattered outages in Boston and other inside-128 places.
Ari Ofsevit captures a local man doing what a local man must do at first snow.
Our own Cybah took some video of the snow that wasn't supposed to fall on Chelsea, or anywhere else within 128, but did (update: Or didn't, since it was graupel): Read more.
A pilot program by Boston Public Works last winter to dig out busy sidewalk corners, crosswalks and handicap ramps has become permanent and the city will try to expand it to cover more parts of the city, City Councilor Kenzie Bok says. Read more.
Roman S. caught the rainbow over Allston/Brighton late this afternoon.
Joe Sangiorgi spotted it over Rte. 107 in Revere: Read more.
BLVCK.machina looked out the window of his office next to the State House around 4 p.m. and spotted an apocalyptic hellscape - and only partially because of the window tinting.
A calmer view further down the Charles: Read more.
Early riser Joe Kidston captured the rainbow over the water in Hull this morning.
The Boston Public Health Commission reports all the rain has overloaded local sewer mains, to the point that one MWRA outflow pipe, upstream of the North Washington Street Bridge, started pouring sewage-laden water into the inner harbor at 1:01 a.m, "creating a potential public health risk." Read more.
Colleen Powell spotted it from Washington Street while looking past Grove Street late this afternoon. Read more.
Yes, you can blame Ian, or what's left of it, as shown in this NOAA satellite view taken around 11:05 p.m.