New England sees first serious snowfall of the season

“I hate snow”, said Bruce Schulman, a Boston University history professor who was waiting at Boston’s South Station to take a train to NY.

“Regardless of how much snow it puts down, it puts us into a colder weather pattern for a time”, he said.

Those in the Northeast now find themselves once again trudging through more slushy, wet snow.

The weather didn’t stop presidential candidates from campaigning in New Hampshire, just four days away from its first-in-the-nation primary.

Wind will be fiesty from the northwest-12-17 mph-problematic for the snow on the trees-but offshore so no concern for coastal flooding. CT had about 10,000 as of late morning, while the two major electric utilities in MA were reporting more than 6,000 outages combined.

National Grid also has about 3,500 Rhode Island customers without electricity. Earlier Friday, Gov. Charlie Baker said the Boston-area transit system appeared to be holding up well in the storm.

Easton, Redding and Region 9 schools are closed Friday, Feb. 5, as snow falls and the area remains under a winter weather advisory.

Travel was treacherous; police across the region reported dozens of spinouts.

Snow should taper off in NY about mid-day and on Long Island later, LaVoie said. Areas like Maine, Washington D.C. Baltimore, Philadelphia and others are getting small amounts of snow, but the region from New York City past Boston is expected to get the most accumulative snowfall, with around 7.7 million people impacted by the storm.