Late-winter snowstorm pounds South, Northeast
A late-winter storm blanketed the Northeast on Thursday after zipping across much of the South, leaving hundreds of drivers and their passengers stranded on highways in Kentucky and thousands without power in West Virginia.
A strong cold front dumped more than two feet of snow on parts of Kentucky, and conditions worsened in the Northeast as snow started to pile up to near a foot in some areas of Maryland.
The massive snow in Kentucky left hundreds of people stranded on two major highways and National Guard members delivering them food or driving them to warming centers. There was a pileup involving about 200 semitrailer trucks on Interstate 65 near Elizabethtown in central Kentucky.
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In western Maryland, a semitrailer truck carrying 93 cattle overturned on Interstate 81, which already was snarled by several accidents in the Hagerstown area.
The National Weather Service had winter storm warnings in effect from Texas to Nantucket, Mass., and the forecast called for record cold temperatures in the same area on Friday. Ryan Maue, a meteorologist at Weather BELL Analytics, said, “This is amazing for early March.”
Schools, government offices and legislatures in the South and Northeast were shut down for what could be one of the last snow days at the end of a winter that’s been brutal for much of the country.
But Bostonians might not get the snow that they need to break a record.
This winter, the city has received 105.5 inches of snow, or more than 8 feet, the National Weather Service said. The record is 107.6 inches recorded during the 1995-’96 season. Little more than a dusting was expected from the current storm.