A major blizzard is pounding the Northeast with heavy snow, damaging winds, and blizzard conditions on Monday, Feb. 23.

As over 200,000 households remain in the dark without power on the Cape and southeastern parts of the state, students in Boston are set to return to class after an extended February school vacation courtesy of the Blizzard of ’26.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu warned residents about a massive storm barreling towards Massachusetts on Sunday and said that a snow emergency and parking ban will be in effect starting at 2 p.m.

WATCH LIVE: Eversource providing update after blizzard knocks out power in Massachusetts. Tuesday, 10 a.m. The historic blizzard of 2026 forced The Boston Globe to suspend its print edition for the first time in the newspaper’s 153-year history.

Late shift, instability, persistent snow banding. That’s the best way I can describe the biggest snowstorm to hit Southern New England in four years, a true historic blizzard for so many communities.

A fast-moving storm system will bring light snow and rain to parts of Massachusetts on Wednesday.

The storm hitting Massachusetts today could be historic, according to National Weather Service. See live updates from the day

New England saw a record-breaking blizzard dump up to 3 feet of snow across a swath of Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Monday. Boston picked up over 14 inches with widespread totals of 12 to 30 inches south of the city and in parts of the Ocean State.

There are three different winter storms that could drop snow in Massachusetts in the next week. The first one is Wednesday evening.