Originally posted on ZoomRadar
After a mild winter, a historic late season snowstorm hit parts of the interior Northeast over the past couple days. Snow showers are finally coming to an end across the areas affected as the storm system continues its push northward. Many daily snowfall records were broken and some areas saw storm snow totals of over one foot! Below is an image depicting the snow depth as of this morning. Keep in mind that this snow will melt fairly quickly and some of it has already started to do so.
The image does show that the snow piled up and still existed this morning across the hills and mountains of West Virginia northward into Pennsylvania and parts of upstate New York. Additionally some areas in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine picked up some light snowfall. Some of the higher preliminary snowfall reports from the storm are from Laurel Summit, PA where 23.2″ fell, Sinclairville, NY where 15″ fell, Cattaraugus, NY where 12.8″ fell, Warsaw, NY where 12″ fell, near Sylvania, PA where 11″ fell, Oakland, PA where 8″ fell, Estcourt, ME where 8″ fell, and Frostburg, MD where 6″ fell.
The track of the storm, shown below in a few images, varied somewhat from what the models were predicting on Friday afternoon when I last wrote about this storm system. The eventual track of the storm actually started off in good agreement with the 12Z Friday GFS before beginning to look more like the 12Z ECMWF. The problem was that no model really forecasted the initial low to weaken as it continued north out of New York City and for a secondary low to form off to its east and take a track toward the north from there. This initial pull of the track farther east than many expected was the reason that Sunday night into Monday morning, many areas on the eastern edge of where the snow occurred were surprised. Residents of those areas went to sleep thinking they may wake up to a dusting of snow or maybe even an inch and instead woke up to inches of snow with newly posted winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings.
Storm system just after it makes landfall on Monday morning with the low pressure traveling northward from central New Jersey to New York City where it reached 986 mb.
Storm system on early Monday afternoon with low near Albany, NY at 988 mb.
Storm system on late Monday afternoon with low over the Adirondack Mountains at 987 mb.
Storm system on Monday evening with initial low over the Adirondack Mountains at 988 mb and a new low over the eastern end of Lake Ontario at 989 mb.
Storm system in the early morning hours on Tuesday with initial low over northern Vermont weakening now at 990 mb and new low deepening over eastern Lake Ontario at 986 mb.
Storm system now with only the new low just north of Lake Ontario at its lowest pressure of 985 mb just before sunrise on Tuesday morning.
Storm system Tuesday mid-morning as it continues to push northward and begins to weaken with the lowest pressure now only at 986 mb.
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