A nor’easter dumped rain and brought damaging gusty winds across eastern Massachusetts Monday, according to National Weather Service data, with storm conditions set to continue but taper off Tuesday.

“There’s tons of rainfall, gusty winds, and pretty rough seas out there that were crashing along the coastal areas (Monday),” NWS meteorologist Caitlyn Mensch said Monday night. “Later this afternoon, and even still ongoing right now, we’ve had a little bit of embedded heavier rainfall move in from the south. We’ve even had a couple of rumbles of thunder and some pockets of heavier rain.”

The areas hardest hit by the nor’easter storm Monday were further eastern areas in New England, Mensch said, especially throughout southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. More western regions of Massac

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