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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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
Funniest thing: While accuweather was still showing Saturday morning 6-10 we already had 14 inches on the ground
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
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.
Jason Rowl ·
we have no snow here in northern illinois temps hitting around 40 today
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
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!
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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