On February 23, local time, the number of customers experiencing power outages continued to rise in the northeastern United States. According to data from the power tracking website Poweroutages.us, as of 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time, nearly 400,000 customers were without power. Strong winds combined with heavy, wet snowfall caused the widespread outages.
In addition, New York City experienced its heaviest snowfall in over five years. As of 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Central Park had received over 15 inches (approximately 38.1 centimeters) of snow, the heaviest single-snowfall event recorded by the city's official weather station in over five years.
