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The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch from late Friday night through Saturday evening for portions of eastern, northeastern and southeastern Massachusetts and northern and southern Rhode Island.
Heavy snow is possible with estimated total snowfall amounts between 12″-18″ and winds gusts as high as 60 mph.
Heavy snow rates between 1 and 3 inches per hour will create very difficult to impossible hazardous travel conditions. Strong winds will create drifting snow and gusts between 40 and 60 mph or greater could knock down trees and power lines causing loss of power. There is also a serious threat of coastal flooding and beach erosion due to the arrival of high tide amid the storm.
There is still uncertainty regarding the track of the storm, but this has the potential to easily be our biggest storm of the season, possibly in years. The axis of heaviest snowfall may shift with later forecasts.
Accuweather photo.
