April showers — of snow
A homeowner dresses lightly as he clears snow off a walkway Friday in Denver after a storm packing strong winds, rain and snow swept over the intermountain West. Winter also was making a comeback in the Northeast, where snow fell from New York’s Hudson Valley to northern New York and eastward throughout New England.
BOSTON — New Englanders who had enjoyed an early spring were brought back to a cold, blustery reality Friday with a storm packing powerful wind gusts, lashing rain and heavy, wet snow.
More than a foot of snow piled up Spofford in western New Hampshire, and wind gusts hit 60 mph at the Isles of Shoals about 6 miles off the New Hampshire Coast, according to the National Weather Service.
Snow fell from New York’s Hudson Valley to northern New York and eastward throughout New England.
The wind and heavy snow caused sporadic power outages and created slippery conditions. In Maine, three vehicles hydroplaned and crashed in a period of an hour on the Maine Turnpike before the rain turned to snow. One of them burst into flames; the driver escaped without injury.
Elsewhere, the town of Ashford recorded 10 inches and Ashburnham saw 8.5 inches of snow in Massachusetts. Stafford, Conn., got a little over 3 inches.
Winter weather warnings or advisories were posted for large swaths of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. The storm could linger in some areas into today.