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Weather 'bomb' slams New England, knocking out power to more than 1 million

October 30, 2017

More than 1.3 million residents of the Northeast U.S. were in the dark on Monday morning after an unusually fierce coastal storm rapidly intensified and slammed into New York State overnight. The storm knocked out power to more people across the region than any other storm since Hurricane Sandy hit exactly 5 years ago. 

Winds gusted higher than hurricane force from eastern Long Island to Maine, with a peak wind gust of 93 miles per hour recorded in Mashpee, Massachusetts. 

On the 6,288-foot tall summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, where the highest wind gust on Earth was recorded in 1934, the wind hit 129 miles per hour overnight on Sunday into Monday, the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Weather 'bomb' slams New England, knocking out power to more than 1 million

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