Strong Wind in Northwest Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Winds generally were gusting to 40 to 50 mph. In Groton at 6 AM EST, a tree was down on Route 119 a the Littleton town line.

A major Arctic cold front blasted through southern New England on the morning of March 3rd. It was followed by a few rounds of strong and locally damaging wind gusts. Temperatures plunged to 10 to 20 below zero on the morning of March 4th. The -10F reading at Boston's Logan Airport was the coldest there since 1957. There were numerous instances of burst pipes due to the cold across the region, but it is impossible to quantify dollar damage. Wind chill indices reached 30 to 40 below zero across southern New England.