Storm Brings Heavy Snow to Northern New York and Vermont

A storm system on Saturday brought heavy rain to the Northeast and heavy snow to parts of New England and Northern New York, leaving more than 300,000 customers in several states without electricity.

Nearly 200,000 customers in Maine, more than 75,000 customers in New Hampshire and more than 89,000 in New York State were without power as of early Sunday morning, according to PowerOutage.us, a website that tracks power failures.

In New York City, the heavy rain and snow cleared overnight, according to the National Weather Service. But parts of New Jersey remained under flood advisories Sunday morning, particularly along the coast.

In some regions on Sunday morning — including parts of New Jersey’s Somerset, Cumberland and Ocean Counties — a flood warning remained in effect, which is a more serious alert that warns of imminent flooding.

The outages and weather notices followed a day of heavy precipitation across the region.

In Central Park, a record 3.66 inches of rain fell on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Further north, Corinth, N.Y., reported over 20 inches of snow by Saturday night, according to the National Weather Service.

Philadelphia had 3.06 inches of rain, the wettest calendar day ever recorded in March in the official observing station since 1872, according to the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, Pa.

The previous daily record for March 23 was 1.36 inches in 2005. For the month of March, the record was 2.79 inches, set on March 15, 1912, the Weather Service said.

Some areas across New England were hit with heavy snowfall.

Snow started falling in Vermont on Friday, with areas of higher elevation in Windsor and Rutland Counties recording 10 to 17 inches of snow as of Saturday afternoon, said Rebecca Duell, a meteorologist with the Weather Service in Burlington, Vt.

By 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Landgrove, Vt., had reported almost 25 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.

Shrewsbury, Vt., reported 26 inches of snow by the time the system moved out of the Northeast on Saturday evening. The city of Burlington got just over six inches of snow.

Other parts of the New England also had heavy snowfall. Lovell, Maine, had 13.5 inches and Waterville Valley, N.H., had 17.6 inches, according the Weather Service.

Albany, N.Y., recorded about 2.5 inches of snow as of Saturday afternoon. More than 50 miles north, the Glens Falls area had up to 15 inches of snow as of 2 p.m. on Saturday, said Brian Frugis, a meteorologist for the local Weather Service office.

Wilton, N.Y., 43 miles north of Albany, had 18 inches of snowfall. The region had also experienced freezing rain, which caused some branches to fall, leading to power outages in the area, he said.

Separately, a system moving into the Western United States on Saturday was bringing snow from the northern High Plains through the Dakotas, Minnesota and parts of the upper Great Lakes. Snow and blizzard warnings blanketed the region from northern Kansas to Montana, the Dakotas and the Great Lakes.

Much of the region was expected to stay under winter weather advisories through Tuesday, as heavy snow was expected to spread from central and eastern Montana into the North Plains and upper Midwest. Most of those areas were forecast to see gusty winds, ice, and around six to 12 inches of snow.

Heavy snow and gusty winds — as high as 50 miles per hour — in the Central and Southern Plains were also expected to create hazardous driving conditions late on Saturday and into the early part of the week.

Jin Yu Young and Ali Watkins contributed reporting.