Storm totals

Sorry I did not post another blog last night, as we did not arrive home until 1 AM. The snow was delayed coming into the Boston area because of all the dry, arctic air that was in place, so it took a while to moisten the atmosphere. Even though it was snowing thousands of feet in the air, the snow did not reach the surface. We were driving back from Medford at 1230, and the snow had just started to come down hard and a coating was on the ground by the time we made it back to JP. 

The heavy snow is now (11 am) beginning to wind down in Boston, but it is still snowing heavily south of Boston. Light snow will continue in Boston and on the North shore for most of the day, amounting an additional 2-4 inches. The snow has caused the most problems on the Cape, with winds gusting over 50 MPH and over a foot of snow in most towns there. Thousands of power outages have been reported, as well as 3-ft drifts of snow. Many side roads are impassible because of all the downed branches and the drifts of the wet snow over SE MA. 

 Snow totals (inches): As of 11 AM: 

Official JP total : 14.0 

Mansfield: 19.0 

Sandwich: 16.0

Attleborough: 15.0

Franklin: 14.0

Framingham: 11.0

Hingham: 11.0

Logan: 7.0(As of 5 AM) 

Rest of snow totals: http://weather.wbztv.com/US/MA/015.html

Wind gusts (MPH):

Nantucket: 62 

Hyannis: 57

Chatham: 52

Boston: 40