PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A snowstorm dumped more than a half-foot of heavy snow on parts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont on Thursday, and it’ll be followed by plunging temperatures and blustery winds.
Winds gusting to 35 mph on the coast could cause some sporadic outages as the temperatures dip to the teens and single digits Thursday evening. It will seem even colder with the wind.
“It’ll start to feel like January pretty quickly,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Hunter Tubbs, in Gray, Maine.
The storm dumped 7 inches of snow near East Baldwin and 6.5 inches in Cumberland, both in Maine, and a half-foot of snow in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, by Thursday afternoon, he said.
Across the region, many schools and businesses were closed.
Two separate tractor-trailer crashes were reported Thursday morning in Vermont, closing a section of road in Sharon and reducing Interstate 91 north to one lane in Springfield.
The storm was moving out of the area Thursday afternoon. By Friday morning, wind chills are expected to be below zero.
The cold and snow came just days after record-setting warmth. The temperature climbed into the 70s in parts of New England last weekend.
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