Northeast blizzard News

NICB to Boston-Area Homeowners: Beware of Insurance Scammers

The National Insurance Crime Bureau advised that as the Northeast continues to get pounded by storm after storm, there’s one more threat that Bostonians need to watch out for: shady contractors or “storm chasers” looking to make a fraudulent buck …

Cal U. of Pennsylvania Teaches Tricky Science of Predicting Snow

Predicting winter weather is a slippery slope. People depend on weather forecasters to tell them when to stock up on milk and bread, but if a predicted blizzard doesn’t materialize, a flurry of complaints surface on social media. Snow is …

Few Claims Reported From Winter Storm Juno

Winter Storm Juno — a blizzard that swept through the Northeast during the last week of January and brought record and near-record snowfalls and high winds — has resulted in relatively few insurance claims so far, according to industry participants. …

AIR Worldwide Reports on This Week’s Northeast Blizzard

A blizzard in the Northeast this week primarily impacted eastern Long Island in New York, southeastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod and the islands, New Hampshire, and Maine, with record and near-record snowfall, high winds, and monumental …

New Englanders Facing Snowy ‘Big Dig’ After Blizzard

New Englanders savaged by a blizzard packing knee-high snowfall and hurricane-force winds began digging out Wednesday, grudgingly praising forecasters who got grief from New Yorkers and others spared its full fury. The storm buried the Boston area in more than …

New York City Blizzard Proves Dud as Weather Forecasters Miss Mark

Reopen Broadway, start up the trains, get the commuters back on the road. The great New York City blizzard of ’15 was a bust. Not that there was no snow — Manhattan’s Central Park had 7.9 inches (20 centimeters) as …

Blizzard Sweeps Northeast U.S., New York Spared Its Brunt

A blizzard swept across the northeastern United States on Tuesday, dropping as much as 2 feet (60 cm) of snow across Massachusetts and Connecticut even as its impact on New York City fell short of dire predictions. The governors of …