US Northeast Hit Again by Snowstorm

The Northeast United States was being hit Monday with the third major snowstorm in two weeks. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued winter storm warnings from central New York state through northern Connecticut, Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. In Boston, in the East Coast state of Massachusetts, residents woke up to as much as a foot of new snow. As of Monday, Boston had received about 1.7 meters (66 inches) of snow this winter, the vast majority in the past two...

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