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Icy Mix Snarls New England Travel as Schools Close and Crashes Reported

Forecasters expect freezing precipitation today followed by a second system late this week.

Overview

  • The National Weather Service kept winter weather advisories in place across all six New England states.
  • Dozens of districts closed or delayed classes because icy roads made morning bus routes unsafe.
  • Ice near a tenth of an inch in Hancock and Washington counties created very slick conditions.
  • Highway agencies reported numerous crashes and spinouts, and utilities logged a few thousand outages mostly in Maine with several hundred in Massachusetts.
  • Another system could bring rain Friday night into Saturday and potential snow Saturday into Sunday, raising the risk of treacherous roads if temperatures fall after the rain.