here on what's going on.
ron mott is in portland, maine,
bill karins, of course, our
chief meteorologist here.
ron, how are things today in
portland?
are they dug out?
>> reporter: they are digging
out, chuck.
it's a work in progress.
good morning.
they got about 9 inches
officially here.
it's probably generous,
concerning what we saw here last
night when we left, but it's
enough to close the schools.
i think folks in new england are
used to the snow but they're
probably even saying enough
already, but they have got snow
tomorrow night into sunday, snow
possibly monday into tuesday.
but look at what the snow and
the wind and the ice did to
these trees last night.
the wind whipped up to 45 miles
an hour so there are some tree
limbs down.
the kiddos get a three-day
weekend and lots of snow to play
with.
portland usually averages about
62 inches.
they went past that last night
so we've got another month of
snow potentially here.
they'll shatter what their
annual snowfall averages...