CONNECTICUT, USA — Winter continues as Connecticut woke up to snow blanketing the ground Tuesday morning.
The snow and, in some areas, wintry mix prompted over 340 closures, delays, and parking bans spanning the state.
The storm is expected to last through Tuesday afternoon, with most of the state seeing anywhere between 2 and 4 inches of snow. Some areas of the state will also see some icing on top of the snow with sleet or freezing rain. Most of the mixing is likely in areas around and southeast of Hartford.
Precipitation is expected to end this evening between 4 and 7 p.m., making the evening commute a possible slippery one.
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The snowfall caused a few incidents on the road, including in Stonington, where a tractor-trailer filled with 40,000 lbs of bananas crashed.
The crash happened on the northbound side of Interstate 95 in Exit 92. The tractor-trailer rolled over, and one person was taken to a nearby hospital with injuries. Due to the cargo, the Department of Consumer Protection was also called to the scene. The off-ramp on the northbound side was closed while crews investigated and cleared the crash.
Another crash involved a vehicle flipped over on Route 15 in Meriden between exits 67S and 66, closing the right lane, according to CT DOT.
Just after 11 a.m., multiple crashes were reported on Route 15 and Interstate 91 in North Haven. A tractor-trailer was seen partially hanging off an overpass in the town, closing that part of I-91.
Connecticut is not the only state facing wicked winter weather as arctic air settled over parts of the country the last few days.
Dangerously cold temperatures dragged much of the Rockies, Great Plains, and Midwest into negative windchills below 30 degrees.
More than 850,000 homes and businesses were without power early Tuesday in Oregon as freezing rain impacted Portland. Due to the weather, classes on Tuesday were canceled for students in Portland and other major cities like Chicago, Denver, Dallas, and Fort Worth, Texas.
The weather was so impactful that it delayed an NFL playoff game and impacted Iowa's presidential caucuses.
Temperatures across the country are expected to moderate midweek, but a new surge of colder air is forecasted to drop south over the northern plains and midwest, reaching into the deep south by the end of the week.
But in Connecticut, not everyone is upset with the wintry weather.
"I'm a winter guy. I like to hike in the woods. It's a nice time of year to hike," said Waterbury resident Robery Strachan.
Adam Ward, a man from Georgia who is visiting Connecticut for his daughter's birthday, is taking the snow in stride as well.
"I watch the weather up here, and I can see y'all haven't really been getting anything, and it's just my luck I come up here, got a couple of storms coming," Ward said. "If it doesn't get any badder [sic] than this, then I'm probably just going to have me some hot chocolate and coffee."
The Associated Press contributed to parts of this report.
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Jennifer Glatz is a digital content producer at FOX61 News. She can be reached at jglatz@fox61.com.
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