Spring Snow Hits The Southcoast
The Southcoast is waking up to several inches of snow this morning. All schools are open and running on time. Are you sick of the snow yet?
The Southcoast is waking up to several inches of snow this morning. All schools are open and running on time. Are you sick of the snow yet?
It's been a snowy winter on the Southcoast. No one knows it better than Fairhaven's Superintendant of Schools Dr. Robert Baldwin. On top of blizzards and snow days, Dr. Baldwin has had to deal with Hurricane Sandy days, mold days at the Oxford (Wood) School, and a fire extinguisher clean up day
The calls from listeners telling us they had lost power at home began early this morning. The first calls came from the north end of New Bedford, north of the Pa Raffa's area up along Acushnet Ave.
This storm has only just begun, yet we are learning of multiple accidents all across the Southcoast. Don't let the roads fool you. They are super slippery. A person was reportedly thrown from this car (right) when it spun off of 195 East in Mattapoisett
When we woke-up this morning, we may have thought we dodged a bullet with this nor'easter. Sure it was windy with a mix of rain, snow and sleet, but overall it was manageable.
Meteorologist Fred Campagna was hesitant about committing to snow totals yesterday, in fact he was leaning towards a mostly rain event
Fred Campagna is the head-honcho at Right Weather, and this morning he told us the storm we coming for this weekend will be a wet one. Along the Southcoast we can expect to see snow on Saturday afternoon.
Here comes the weekend, and in February that seems to mean a winter storm. Fred Campagna at rightweather.net says that this weekend's storm has the potential to do some damage.
The Northeast was buried in snow thanks to the latest blizzard. Most of what was predicted fell just as they thought it would.