Nor’easter officially declared a blizzard in Boston by National Weather Service

– News and commentary from Quincy Quarry News.  

Blizzard of 2015
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Nor’easter officially declared a blizzard in Boston by the National Weather Service.

At approximately 12:30 PM today, the National Weather Service announced that today’s storm had meet the official criteria to be declared a blizzard.

Unfortunately for the many millions who are hunkered down for the duration, the Blizzard of 2018, the storm formerly known as Skylar, is expected to continue to rage on until well into this evening.

Already hundreds of thousands of utility customers have lost power and will remain in the dark until repairs efforts can commence after the storm by already exhausted utility company workers.

Plowing through the snow!
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Amazingly, however, so far the MBTA’s rail service has yet to suffer any major incidents or extended delays.

Then again, the MBTA is operating per  “an extremely reduced schedule” for Commuter Rail service as well as shifted to a weekend schedule for subway service as well as variously revised its bus operations.

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