It was no Snowmageddon — more like a bit of old-fashioned New Hampshire winter.
Very few power outages were reported by utilities on Sunday and Monday as a foot or more of relatively light snow fell throughout southern and central New Hampshire, accompanied by light winds and little or no freezing rain.
Weather volunteers in Concord and surrounding towns were reporting between 10 and 13 inches of new snow atop a few inches of existing snow on the Cocorahs website with several more inches expected to fall throughout the day.
The snow was relatively light, melting down to about an inch of water, making it relatively easy to move.
The overnight parking ban for downtown Concord has been extended through Tuesday morning as streets are getting cleared. Monday’s trash and recycling collection is postponed to Tuesday, and collection will be delayed by one day the rest of the week.
Most schools were closed today while roads and sidewalks are being cleared.
Cold weather will continue, with temperatures expected to stay below freezing all this week, although meterologists don’t expect a return of the brutal sub-zero temperatures that shut down many ski areas on Saturday.
The storm was heavier south of the border, with up to 19 inches of new snow reported in Connecticut and central Massachusetts.
The storm that swept through the country dropped measurable snow in half of the states, from New Mexico to Maine. It disrupted travel, with more flights cancelled Sunday than any time since COVID-19 first swept through, and more than 4,000 cancellations still reported early Monday, according to the airline tracker FlightAware.
By Monday morning only two flights had been cancelled at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.
In parts of the Midwest, the South and the Mid-Atlantic, freezing rain, wind and snow brought down trees and power lines, leaving many without power. About 830,000 electricity customers were without electricity in the U.S. on Sunday night, according to reports, with Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana experiencing the worst of the outages.