About 350,000 clients had been nonetheless with out energy in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont on Friday after a strong storm system introduced springtime snowfall to northern New England.

Listed below are the primary issues to know on Friday.

The height of the nor’easter had largely handed by Friday morning. The Nationwide Climate Service mentioned it expected the storm to gradually weaken over the weekend “but it will take its time,” with widespread moist snow blended with rain in decrease elevations anticipated to proceed by Friday. About 4 to eight inches of recent snow might accumulate in some areas.
Energy was slowly coming again on throughout the area after the storm left almost half 1,000,000 clients with out energy. However progress was gradual as of midday on Friday: In Maine, greater than 250,000 clients had been nonetheless with out energy, according to PowerOutage. US; greater than 90,000 in New Hampshire and about 10,000 in Vermont. This was the second time in two weeks that giant components of Maine and New Hampshire misplaced energy in a storm.
Greater than a foot of snow fell over a lot of the area. In York County, Maine, simply south of Portland, an observer for the Nationwide Climate Service reported nearly 20 inches as of Thursday night time.

David Roth, a meteorologist with the Climate Prediction Heart in School Park, Md., mentioned that the storm was anticipated to linger within the area.

“Most of the time, nor’easters just move steadily up the coast,” he mentioned. “This one stalling for a couple days is not great because it also brings with it the threat of coastal flooding.”

Air journey was additionally disrupted. Greater than 400 flights inside, to or from the US had been canceled on Thursday afternoon, in line with FlightAware; lots of them had been in Boston. That quantity had jumped to 500 by Friday morning. Greater than 8,500 flights had been delayed.Whereas some New England residents could also be caught off guard by the nor’easter, simply days after the Easter vacation and through spring break for a lot of faculty districts, Rodney Chai, the lead meteorologist with the Climate Service in Burlington, Vt., mentioned this week that snow in April was not unusual.

“It may come as a little bit of a shock to people because we have had a stretch of nice springlike weather and this winter has been anomalously mild,” he mentioned. “People might have gotten a little too comfortable.”

However issues are wanting up in time for the solar eclipse on Monday: It’s anticipated to be within the mid-50s and sunny throughout northern New England.

Christine Hauser contributed reporting.