A third nor'easter is very possible next week, depending on which storm model wins out, just after the second one in as many weeks dumped heavy snow and caused power outages along the East Coast, affecting millions of residents from Maine down to Maryland.
Residents along the Interstate 95 corridor spent most of the day Thursday digging out from the snow while damage to power lines caused the lights to go out for two million customers after Wednesday's storm extended into Thursday in some areas, NBC News reported.
ABC News reported the latest American and European computer models split on whether there is going to be a third nor’easter coming out of a storm system moving through the South that already promises severe storms Saturday into Sunday along the Gulf Coast from Arkansas to Florida.
American Model: The storm remains larger and colder, moving to Kentucky and Tennessee, then into the southern Appalachian Mountains on Sunday evening. The storm redevelops Monday morning off the Mid-Atlantic coast, bringing snow from Washington, D.C. to New York City. This coastal low will strengthen on Monday afternoon (much like the second nor'easter), then move up the coast bringing heavy snow for most of the I-95 corridor from Washington to Boston and into Maine.
European model: A much weaker storm system moved along the Carolina coast on Monday with mostly rain during the day and evening, and by Monday night moves off the Carolina coast and brings no precipitation to the Northeast.
About 230,000 Massachusetts residents were left without electricity on Thursday night, followed by New Jersey with 140,000 outages and Connecticut with more than 80,000 homes where the lights were out, NBC News said.
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency warned residents about conditions from the storm on Twitter Thursday.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker told residents they should avoid unnecessary travel during the storm's aftermath, Boston.com reported.
"With several communities experiencing power outages and downed trees, the administration is urging residents to stay off roadways and to use public transportation when possible," Baker said, per Boston.com.
New Jersey State Police reported that troopers responded to 530 crashes connected to Wednesday's storm and assisted 1,017 motorists on roads they patrolled, NJ Advance Media reported.
State police said a disabled tractor trailer with hazardous waste on usually busy Interstate 78 westbound, near Exit 50, tied up a portion of the highway for more than four hours. It was one of score of accidents on Interstate 78 and Interstate 280.
About 16 inches of snow fell in some Philadelphia suburbs while the city reported six inches, Philly.com reported. Authorities said at one point on Wednesday roughly 27 percent of utility residents in Bucks County were without electricity. About 73,000 outages were reported in Buck and Burlington counties in Pennsylvania.
The Portland Press Herald reported that thousands lost power Thursday in Maine as the nor'easter produced wind gust topping 40 miles per hour. A foot of snow dropped in many areas of the state by mid-afternoon, shutting down traffic in all northbound lanes of Interstate 95 from Exit 32 in Biddeford and Exit 36 in Saco.
Central Maine Power reported that nearly 13,000 customers were still without power just before midnight Thursday.
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