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Nor'easter

By adamg - 3/15/23 - 12:08 pm
Map showing snowfall totals in southern New England, low along the cost, high further west

The National Weather Service posted this map of snowfall totals in southern New England.

The analysis uses interpolation methods, so it may not perfectly reflect your back yard. Still, clearly shows the huge differences in short distances.

By adamg - 12/23/22 - 9:37 am

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.

By adamg - 2/1/21 - 5:46 pm

Lisa Green visited Long Wharf a half hour before high tide today, reports she didn't stick around to see high tide: Read more.

By adamg - 12/5/20 - 1:38 pm
Satellite image of the nor'easter

A snapshot of the nor'easter currently booming in from the GOES-16 satellite, taken at 10:10 a.m.

By adamg - 10/17/19 - 10:10 am
Tree on car on Symphony Road

As you might expect, Boston 311 is getting lots of reports about downed trees, including this one on a car on Symphony Road in the Fenway.

By adamg - 10/17/19 - 9:25 am
Two boats on Carson Beach

Never mind all the talk about dropping pressure and bombogenesis and stuff: The mark of a true nor'easter in Boston is when a boat washes up on Carson Beach (added points if it then stays there for weeks on end). Roving UHub photographer Jim Gavaghan provides all the evidence we need that that was some blow overnight: Not one, but two boats washed up on the beach. Read more.

By adamg - 10/17/19 - 12:05 am
Nor'easter from space

The nor'easter at 9:40 p.m., as seen by the GOES-16 satellite.

The National Weather Service has a high-wind advisory posted until 6 p.m. Thursday.

By adamg - 3/22/19 - 9:38 pm
Flooded Long Wharf

As has become usual during nor'easters, Long Wharf flooded this afternoon. Human, Actual Size surveyed the briny deep where people normally walk. Read more.

By adamg - 3/22/19 - 1:26 pm

DCR reports Morrissey Boulevard is shut southbound at UMass due to, of course, flooding, from the nor'easter-whipped high tide.

By adamg - 2/21/19 - 11:43 am
Map of proposed new buildings at Massachusetts General Hospital

Where the new buildings would go.

Massachusetts General Hospital this week filed its plans for a $1-billion project that would not only provide "21st century care in a 21st century environment" but create "a place of refuge" where hospital staffers and patients could shelter for up to four days in the face of the worst nature - or man - could throw at Boston. Read more.

By adamg - 10/28/18 - 7:17 pm
Beached boat

Eileen Murphy reports this boat washed up on the beach in South Boston during yesterday's storm.

By adamg - 10/27/18 - 6:55 pm
Pink skies over the Mattapan Line

Tim Murphy captured the pink skies at the tail end of the nor'easter over the Mattapan Line late this afternoon.

By adamg - 10/27/18 - 4:35 pm
Pergola on the ground in the South End

Jonathan Berk reports a roof pergola became a sidewalk pergola on Milford Street in the South End today - after first smashing into a couple of parked cars.

By adamg - 10/27/18 - 3:44 pm

Reports of power outages along Centre Street in the area of West Roxbury Parkway are coming in. Even the Starbucks on Centre Street was forced to close.

By adamg - 10/27/18 - 12:06 pm
Split tree on Broadway in South Boston

Ben Walsh spotted this newly cleaved tree on Broadway between L and M this morning.

By adamg - 10/24/18 - 12:48 pm

It looks that way, in a storm that will feature the remnants of Hurricane Willa. But at least it'll be rain on the coastal plain, rather than snow.

By adamg - 3/22/18 - 8:43 am

"The hell am i supposed to do with all this leftover French toast?" Steve Saleeba asks.

"There ended up being just too much dry air in the lower to mid levels of the atmosphere to support much snow across southern New England," the National Weather Service explains.

Still, the storm had its moments: Read more.

By adamg - 3/21/18 - 6:29 pm

Kids go "Yay!" Kids refuse to listen to parents about how this means they'll have yet another day of school at the end of June.

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