On Thursday, April 4, a deadly snowstorm passed over the Northeast. Over a foot of snow has fallen in parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Winds were blowing across multiple states, from the Midwest to Down East Maine, and this, combined with wet snow, brought down trees and power lines.
Nearly 290,000 customers had no power in Maine alone, along with nearly 116,000 power outages in New Hampshire on Friday morning. Fallen trees were linked to at least four deaths in separate incidents in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Thousands of flights were canceled and over 600,000 people were without power across six states on Thursday. By Friday morning, an estimated 388,000 still had no power. This is the same overall storm system that made its way across the country this week, bringing severe thunderstorms to the Central U.S. and Midwest. The deep upper-level trough will slowly move off the Northeast Coast over the coming days.
