>Texas/Oklahoma to Maryland/Delaware Winter Storm History: Jan 28-30th.

Written by on January 31, 2010 in Rest of Europe with 2 Comments

>Updates have been added to this post! Monday..

Visible sat image of the snow on the ground left by the storm!

WORST OF THE SNOW ACROSS VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NORTH CAROLINA & SOUTH JERSEY WHERE UPWARDS OF A FOOT OR MORE OF SNOW FELL.

Images courtesy of AccuWeather.com and The Weather Channel.

The Storm’s Impact

From the Texas panhandle to southern New Jersey a band of heavy snow from a major storm that formed in the Pacific and hit the West coast and crossed the Desert Southwest before entering the southern plains and intensified bringing major rains and thunderstorms across a path from south Texas, southern Louisiana, southern Alabama and south Georgia whilst anywhere from 2 to as much as 18 inches of snow fell on the northern side of this storm which was met by cold, arctic air that was driving suth from the northern plains. In between 1-2 inches of icy occued across Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and through portions of Tennessee but the major story for Tennessee was the heavy snows. Even northern Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia recieved 1-3 inches of snow.

According to friend and meteorologist Jesse Ferrell from AccuWeather’s Breaking News, Norfolk, Va recieved a new daily snow record with 6.1 inches of snow on Saturday, the old record being 5 inches.

The heavy snow and ice brought chaos to the southern Plains where warmth the previous day (60s) was replaced by sub-freezing temperatures, freezing rain which brought quarter, half and even an inch of ice accummulations in some areas which snapped power poles and lines and tree limbs, whilst these same areas and other areas also got blasted by heavy snow with areas recieving between 6-12 inches. After the storm pushed out and progressed eastbound towards the Mid-Atlantic states to do it’s thing, a reinforcing push of colder air brought more winter misery. This is the second major winter hit for the state of Oklahoma and it’s believed that no winter has seen two major winter storms hit the Sooner state in the same winter season.

Storm totals in the East (in inches)

Philadelphia 2.1

Atlantic City 7.3

Washington 6.4

Snow Totals from Jesse’s blog:

Rocky Fork, TN: 14.0″Lakeside, VA: 14.0″Mills River, NC: 13.0″Sharp, AR: 12.0″Cranks, KY: 11.0″Hollywood, MD: 10.5″Iron & Wasola, MO: 9.0″Bluefield, WV: 8.0″Seaford, DE: 6.0″North Cape May, NJ: 5.1″Converse, SC: 5.0″New Freedom, PA: 3.5″Dillard, GA: 3.0″Multiple Locations, AL: 2.0″Corinth, MS: 1.0″

My next post coming soon will discuss the cold air now driven in behind the departing system and is bringing low teens this morning from Boston to Washington, windchills may fall below zero as far south as Richmond, Va and even down to North Carolina.

Monday Update:

updated storm totals (Thanks to Jesse Ferrell)

King and Queen, VA 18 inches
Ridge, MD 15.2 inches
Multiple Locations, WV 14 inches
Another interesting fact is with Washington DC’s further 6.4 inches of snow from this storm, the city now has a solid 24 inches of snow collected for the season. Will 09-10 be snowier than the all-time record year of 86-87? Some mountain locations in WV, VA and even western MD, I still believe will pick up between 90 – 110 inches of snow for the season besting totals from the record 02-03 season. This was in my prediction back in July.

Thanks for reading.
-Mark

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  1. Anonymous says:

    >Hi there Mark.

    how are you getting along? We had a small snow flurry here in Kirkcaldy this evening, accumulations are insignificant. I did take a trip to Aviemore and a seperate trip to Inverness recently. It's apparant that the large bodies of water here in Fife are still frozen, snow patches remain on higher ground unmelted from half way through Decemeber.
    However towards the Aviemore area, the snow remains firm. Loch Morlich was spectacular, with the snowy mountains of Cairgorm in the background. Fresh snow covers the land from Inverness to Dunkeld area. This winter, despite the milder turn, remains colder than of recent.

    Warm regards

    Jamie

  2. Anonymous says:

    >Hello from Western North Carolina – not really sure how much snow received – heavy sleet/ice pellets between midnight and 6AM on Saturday compacted the snow by several inches and made nomally gentle sloping snow edges look like they had been carved like a layer cake. Here at 2800' elevation we ended up with between 8"-10" on the level but judging from snow pillers missed by the sleet/ice pellets it could easily have been close to the 16" you projected for the mountains.

    Thank you for all of your efforts and time spent keep us informed!…..John

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