Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport recorded 37.9 inches of snow between Sunday, Feb. 22, and Monday, Feb. 23, surpassing the previous record set during the Blizzard of '78, which was 28.6 inches. Providence's 35.5 inches on Monday alone also broke the snowfall record for the date of Feb. 23, which was 3.8 inches in 1967, NWS said.

During a blizzard, doctors at Women & Infants Hospital found creative ways to get to work to deliver babies, including skiing and hiking.

Rhode Island is still digging out, plowing streets and recovering from a record-setting blizzard that struck the state Monday, Feb 23. While residents woke up to a bluebird, clear day with a high of 30 degrees on Tuesday, the National Weather Service is already warning of more snow in our immediate future.

We have the latest staggering snow totals, peak wind gusts, and other notable reports from this historic East Coast blizzard.

While the Blizzard of '78 is the most talked about, it's not the most recent blizzard in Rhode Island. Here's when the last one was, what the term means.

Thousands of Rhode Islanders are waking up without power on Tuesday, Feb. 24, following the record-setting Blizzard of 2026. Rhode Island Energy was able to cut the number of outages in half overnight, according to a press release from the company, restoring power to 30,000 customers.

The winter storm expected to start later today could rival Blizzard of '78 in snowfall totals in Rhode Island.

A powerful blizzard brought heavy snow to Rhode Island on February 23, 2026, with National Weather Service reports showing 20-inch-plus totals in parts of Southern New England, and it cut power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses as visibility dropped in the storm’s heaviest bands.

WELL, WE’RE GETTING SOME SNOWFALL REPORTS IN, AND I WILL TELL YOU, IT IS A CHALLENGE TO MEASURE SNOW IN THESE KIND OF CONDITIONS. NOT ONLY IS IT UNPLEASANT TO GO OUTSIDE, WE HAVE A LOT OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING.