Scattered rain showers are expected Wednesday night before 8 p.m., with a possible change to snow, but little or no accumulation is expected. The weather service we could also see a break of sunshine, though winds will still gust at up to 31 mph. before becoming mostly scattered showers. More snow is possible on Wednesday between noon and 2 p.m. The snow could continue to be heavy at times, with temps dropping to 28 degrees and winds gusting up to 32 mph. Wednesday before a chance of showers by 3 a.m., in the Providence area. The weather service hasn't changed its forecast much, still predicting snow through much of the night until about 1 a.m. The snow over Cape Cod and the Islands will remain heavy and wet. Temperatures in Rhode Island and Eastern Massachusetts are expected to "slip" into the 20s today, "resulting in a more light, fluffy snow," the Weather Service says. "Otherwise expect precip type to be all snow across the remainder of the area," the Weather Service said. The precipitation type was all snow across Southern New England much of the day, according to the National Weather Service, although there's potential for a change to rain or a rain-snow mix this afternoon on Nantucket and the Outer Cape. Green Airport at 11:40 a.m.Ĭheck snowfall and wind speed via the National Weather Service. In Rhode Island, the highest gusts recorded so far were 52 mph at Newport Airport at 12:37 p.m. East Falmouth had a gust of 81 mph at 12:51 p.m. In Massachusetts, wind was the big story. The range for Southern New England, including Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, is 2.7 (Springfield, Massachusetts) to 23 inches (Franklin, Massachusetts), with the heaviest snows in Eastern Massachusetts, south of Boston, a region including Foxboro, New Bedford, Plymouth and the Upper Cape. were Portsmouth at 9.2 inches, Middletown and East Providence at 9.5 inches. The lowest snow totals reported at 7:35 p.m. Most of Rhode Island received at least 12 inches of snow, and many areas much more. High winds in the Providence area reached 40 mph, and 48 mph in the Newport area. The weather service said Southeastern New England bore the brunt of white-out conditions in this storm, and that poor visibility extended into Central Massachusetts and Eastern Connecticut. Providence and Newport joined locations in Massachusetts, including Boston, Hyannis, Plymouth, Falmouth, Martha's Vineyard and Marshfield, where the storm achieved blizzard status. Those conditions include wind gusting at 35 mph or more, visibility of less than a quarter mile, high snowfall amounts and blowing snow, and all of those conditions lasting for more than three hours. In a tweet earlier in the day, the National Weather Service had confirmed Newport had met requirements to be considered a blizzard. In Massachusetts, Franklin reported 23 inches of snow, and the highest total reported in Connecticut was 20.1 inches in East Killingly. The results from Scituate were recorded at 7:08 p.m., but the weather service expects more snow to fall into the evening, so all totals are likely to go higher. Journal reader George Hemond emailed The Journal to say that he measured the snow in his yard on Eaton Street in North Smithfield and it was 22 inches at 6:05 p.m. North Foster came in at 21.9 inches, North Smithfield at 21.5 inches, Woonsocket and Burrillville at 20 inches, according to the latest report. place Scituate as the community in Rhode Island with the most snow, at 22 inches. Meanwhile, new unofficial observed snow totals as of 7:35 p.m. through part of Tuesday afternoon, the snowstorm in Providence met blizzard requirements.
Meteorologist Bill Simpson at the National Weather Service office in Taunton, Massachusetts, said that from 7:30 a.m. As the snow totals mount, the National Weather Service has added Providence to the list of communities that officially had a blizzard.
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