The strong winds, combined with a wet snow, led to extensive power outages from downed trees and wires in southeast coastal MA and in southern RI. Gale force gusts (to 50 mph) continued on the MA coast through Saturday afternoon. Gusts exceeded hurricane force (74 mph) at a few locations. ||The Blizzard of 2013 also produced a prolonged period of very strong winds Friday night along the MA and RI coasts. Snow ended in the morning in western and central MA, southwest NH, most of CT and RI, and in the early afternoon across eastern MA. Snowfall gained intensity during the afternoon, but during the night, 2 to 3 inch per hour amounts were common throughout the region. Strong high pressure to the north of New England helped ensure that cold air remained in place over the area. Explosive deepening took place Friday evening, February 8, as a low center moved from the North Carolina coast to south of Nantucket. Most locations received 2 to 2.5 feet of snow! Isolated thunderstorms were common across the entire region during the height of the storm.||A low pressure system advancing from the Great Lakes region combined forces with a very moist low pressure system moving northeast from the Gulf Coast states. What made this an amazing storm was the widespread coverage of heavy snowfall. An historic winter storm deposited tremendous amounts of snow over all of southern New England, mainly from the mid-afternoon on Friday, February 8 and lasting into the daylight hours of Saturday, February 9.
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