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Bomb Nor'easter Bringing Major Flooding, Damaging Winds
Dr. Jeff Masters | Weather Underground
March 2, 2018
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Damaging winds, heavy rain, and heavy snow
The nor’easter’s strong winds and heavy, wet snows combined to cause power outages to over one million customers from the Great Lakes to New England by Friday afternoon. Winds gusted to 71 mph at Washington-Dulles and 62 mph at Reagan National Airport Friday morning, and a 74 mph gust was clocked atop Chickaree Summit, Pennsylvania. In Massachusetts, a wind gust of 78 mph was recorded at White Crest Beach on Cape Cod, 77 mph at Woods Hole, 72 mph at E. Falmouth, 71 mph at Marstons Milles, 64 mph at Barnstable, 64 mph at Nantucket, 63 mph at Newbury and Aquinnah, and 56 mph at Boston’s Logan Airport.

The town of Wyoming, New York, east of Buffalo, picked up 24 inches of snow in just 24 hours as of Friday morning. Other notable heavy snow totals as of Friday morning included 14 inches in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania, and Windham, New York, 12 inches near North East, Pennsylvania, 12.1 inches at Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, and 10.2 inches just west of Albany, New York. Riley is also bringing heavy rain to Rhode Island and Southeast Massachusetts; storm total rain amounts of 2 – 4” will cause some area rivers to go to at least minor flood stage over the weekend.