The Blizzard of 2026 was moving out to sea Monday night. What’s left behind in its wake is a complete mess. One to three feet of snow with drifts twice as high.

Hundreds of thousands without power. Telephone poles snapped, wires were left hanging, trees and limbs down, cars left stranded.

Blizzard of 2026 stats

Just some of the remarkable stats:

This was the biggest snowstorm in the recorded history of Providence, Rhode Island with more than 37″. 

The city absolutely smashed the prior record set back in the Blizzard of ’78.

Blizzard in Boston

The total in Boston as of Monday evening was up to 16.9″.

This puts the city over 60″ for the season, the first above average snowfall season in four years.

This is also the most snow Boston has received in a season since that insane winter of 2014-2015.

It looks like it will fall just short of another top 10 snowstorm in Boston.

Worcester snow

This certainly wasn’t one of Worcester’s biggest storms, but the 16″ from this nor’easter puts the city well over six feet for the winter season to date.

This is Worcester’s snowiest winter season since 2016-2017 when they recorded 78.3″.

Snowfall jackpot zone

The snowfall “jackpot” was, as predicted, across southeastern Massachusetts.

An intense band of snow parked itself right over Plymouth and Bristol counties all day long.

By late afternoon, several communities in this area received more than 30″ of snow. Fall River got 41″ and New Bedford got 37″.   

Snowfall rates reached as high as 4-5″ per hour at times in this area.

A snow plow driver in Kingston, Massachusetts narrowly avoided being impaled by a falling tree branch Monday while clearing snow during a blizzard.

The Kingston Police Department shared photos showing a branch that came crashing down. The limb pierced the windshield of the pickup truck.

Police said the branch, which was about six inches in diameter and several feet long, landed between the driver’s legs, “missing impaling him by inches.”

Kingston Fire and Emergency Management also posted a photo from inside the truck that shows the branch wedged underneath the steering wheel.

“Please stay off the roadways. Even those who are trying to keep the roads clear and safe are having difficulties. Luckily there was no injury to the plow operator,” the fire department said.

Police said roads are being plowed, but then become messy immediately as the snow covers them. In addition, winds are blowing branches onto power lines and into the roads.

“There is no sugar-coating this. It’s bad out here. The worst in years and it’s not over yet,” Kingston police said.

Monday’s punishing storm officially was declared a blizzard for many areas in the state. “Considerable falling and/or blowing snow which reduces visibility to less than ¼ mile for 3+ hours AND sustained winds or frequent gusts 35 mph or greater in that same timeframe” is the official criteria of a blizzard.

Several hundred thousand people in Massachusetts are without power during the storm. Some parts of the state have already reported two feet of snow.