Strong Wind in Western Essex, Massachusetts

Winds generally were gusting to 45 to 55 mph. In Boxford at 950 AM EST, a large tree was down on power lines on Topsfield Road at Cedar Street. In Andover at 1106 AM EST, a tree and wires were down on Argilla Road at Newman Hill Drive.

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.