Feb 17 (Reuters) – A snowstorm slammed parts of New England,
including Boston, on Sunday and was expected to turn into a
blizzard later in the day in eastern Maine and Atlantic Canada,
meteorologists said.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning
on Sunday for Boston, Cape Cod, Nantucket and surrounding areas,
saying that gusty winds and up to 10 inches (25 cm) of snow were
expected.
“Travel will be slow at best on well-treated surfaces and
quite difficult on any unplowed or untreated surfaces,” the
warning said.
The storm in the Northeast is the same one that brought snow
to North Carolina and South Carolina on Saturday,
AccuWeather.com said. It’s not expected to be as destructive as
the deadly Northeast blizzard earlier this month that brought
hurricane-force winds and left hundreds of thousands without
power.
Still, as of Sunday morning the new storm had caused
“excessive” cancellations and delays of flights arriving at or
departing from Boston’s Logan International Airport on Sunday,
according to FlightStats.com.
(Reporting by Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and
Sandra Maler)
