Sunday, January 24, 2016

RECAP: Record-breaking blizzard buries mid-Atlantic with over 2 feet of snow

By Brett Rathbun, AccuWeather.com Meteorologist
January 24,2016; 7:08PM,EST
 
 
The Blizzard of 2016 rattled the mid-Atlantic states on Friday and Saturday, producing widespread snowfall totals of 1 to 3 feet.
At least 29 people were killed as a result of the storm, according to ABC news. Several deaths were due to heart attacks that occurred while shoveling snow.
Washington, D.C., Baltimore and New York City received more than 2 feet of snow during the event. Philadelphia received just under 2 feet. All four major cities shattered daily records for the most snow on Jan. 23.
A man operates a snow blower near the Brooklyn Bridge in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
Philadelphia received a typical entire season's worth of snowfall, 22.4 inches, from the blizzard.
In New York City's Central Park, Saturday was the snowiest day on record. The previous record was 24.1 inches from Feb. 12, 2006. Central Park fell 0.1 of an inch short of tying the previous all-time record storm total snowfall of 26.9 inches from Feb. 11-12, 2006.
"Baltimore received the most snow on record for a storm on Sunday, surpassing the old record of 26.8 inches set during the President's Day storm of 2003," AccuWeather Meteorologist Brian Edwards said.

Local emergency management reported that there were three roof collapses of weak buildings and mobile homes in Page County, Virginia, where totals were around 2 feet.
While there were widespread totals of 2 to 3 feet, a few localized locations even topped that threshold from northwestern Virginia to south-central Pennsylvania. A National Weather Service spotter reported 42 inches of snow near Glengary, West Virginia.

Strong wind gusts between 30 and 50 mph led to extensive blowing and drifting snow and near-zero visibility. Most cities were shut down with travel bans in place to keep vehicles safely off the roads.
Travel bans forced those heading outdoors to travel by foot. Some people traveled by cross-country skis and a sled.
Two people use cross country skis to get around the snow in front of the U.S. Capitol, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Heavy bands of snow set up across portions of the mid-Atlantic producing snowfall rates of 1 to 3 inches per hour. Snow crews were unable to keep ahead of the storm. This led to some vehicles being trapped on the roads for more than 24 hours.
Hundreds of thousands of people from the Tennessee Valley to the mid-Atlantic were without power at some point during the storm. Thousands of flights were cancelled as major hubs were shut down.
This storm also produced coastal flooding and beach erosion along the mid-Atlantic coast. Icy flood waters flowed down several roads across eastern New Jersey.
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It may take days for all roads to be cleared of snow. However, calm and dry conditions will aid those digging out from the storm.
Before the storm invaded the mid-Atlantic, immobilizing snow fell across portions of Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. North Carolina was also hit hard.
Portions of Kentucky received more than 1 foot of snow while over 6 inches of snow fell in Nashville and Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday.
Heavy, drifting snow buried cars across the mid-Atlantic, including these near Neptune, New Jersey. (Twitter Photo/@georgekourounis)
Snow showers even extended into portions of Florida, including Jacksonville during Saturday.
While the storm has ended, anyone with photos and videos of the event can still share them with AccuWeather.

 
 
Ann Pavone Durand ·
Proud to say I survived being #1 in Harrisburg. And will be ungodly sore from shoveling all 34 of those inches tomorrow.
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Susan Gelb ·
I am glad the snow is going to be melting each day. Do you see any storms in Feb.
Stefan Floyd ·
You Guy's don't get it forecasting is never always going to be accurate but they always said that the models is what they go by AccuWeather and all of the meteorologists from news channels, weather channel, NBC ,Fox, and all was always saying we are going to have to up the scale of snow I was watching they did a great job, they always said "New York and Boston was never out of the woods yet some models are still pointing towards 16-24in" at certain times but then the other models started moving it up late the meteorologists knew that but was going to be more but the important models didn't wan...See More
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John Q Leckemby
I think they nailed the forecast this time. Good Job! We have 18 to 22 inches in King George, VA., hard to get a good measurement. The forecast was for 8-12 on Friday and 8 to 12 on Saturday. Band of heavy snow Saturday afternoon hung over us for several hours. The prediction was spot on. Friends in Southern MD. say they got about a foot. This was also picked up in the forecast with the change over to sleet down their way.
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Daniel Wilson ·
Impressed we still got 22+ in Philly, especially since we were limited by that "dreaded" dry air (ugh) most of Saturday when we were supposed to be getting our heavy snow!
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Vincent Gulizio
Everyone is saying they did a great job forecasting. Really? We were forecasted to get 6 to 12 inches all week here in NYC. We ended up with 26.8 - the 2nd most to only 26.9 set back in 2006.
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Matthew Spychalski
I agree , accuweather did terrible job . Saturday morning they were showing 6-10 inches in Long Valley NJ , at the same time National Weather in their advisory was showing 22-30 inch and they were right
Funniest thing: While accuweather was still showing Saturday morning 6-10 we already had 14 inches on the ground
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John Hicks ·
Matthew Spychalski NY1 also had it wrong but they are often wrong so I don't go to them for weather reports anymore lol
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Linda Gunderson ·
Matthew Spychalski Accuweather all week long seemed to have the most conservative numbers for snow fall total. Usually I rely on them first but I went with the other weather forecasters instead this time.
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Jason Rowl ·
we have no snow here in northern illinois temps hitting around 40 today
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Kenneth Pratt ·
Congrats for nailing the forecast. The Monday forecast had 2-3 ft, then it went down to 2ft, and finally back up to 2-3ft, and we got a little over 3ft. smile emoticon
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Paul Berger ·
After having the warmest November and the warmest December (by a lot ) in NYC's history, we now get hit with the 2nd greatest snowfall in the city's history just missing the top spot by 0.1 of an inch. Given the other recorded amounts in other parts of the city one could argue this was, indeed, the greatest snowfall when taking into consideration the city as a whole. Crazy weather!
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Louis Saccone ·
bridgeport conn got 15 inches ,so the storm wobble northlike they said.the high pressure to the north wobble to let the storm move into conn area
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Jack Cusatis · what is a 'wobble'?
 

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