WESTPORT — A nearly week-long siege of bone-chilling temperatures, plus a snowy Sunday, have prompted state and local officials to take emergency precautions for the third time this winter.
The state’s “Severe Cold Weather Protocol” has been activated by Gov. Ned Lamont from 6 p.m. Sunday through noon next Friday in anticipation of a “period of brutally frigid conditions.”
The cold front moving across the region, according to the National Weather Service, is expected to freeze daytime high temperatures in the 20- to 25-degree range, with overnight readings plunging into the single digits.
Snow is expected to begin falling, mixed with rain, late Sunday morning and changing to all snow later in the day, with accumulation predicted to be as much as 4 inches, according to the weather service…