nor'easter, New England and Memorial Day
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Radar shows the nor'easter is underway in Boston, and today will be one of the worst weather days so far this spring.
The timeline for this rare May nor'easter indicates the heaviest windswept rain arriving during the afternoon, impacting the evening commute.
A rare May Nor’easter is about to impact New England ahead of Memorial Day weekend. Meteorologists with the National Weather Service (NWS) say the “late season Nor'easter” is expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds to the coast on Thursday, May 22.
The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry, lichen-crusted stone ridges separating a patchwork of otherwise moist soils.
The flights will image geology as part of a national effort to modernize geological maps in the region. The planes will take measurements over a large swath of central and western Massachusetts.