Northeast Snowstorm: Impressive For New England, Disappointing For NYC… -58 In AK!

Written by on January 28, 2015 in United States of America, Winter 2014/15 with 0 Comments

For New York City, the projected 24-36 inches of snow were fantasy but to the north and east, it was a different story. An all out blizzard raged on Long Island as well as up into eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts got hammered to heavy blinding snow driven by 50+mph winds as well as waves which laid to coastal flooding.

There’s no question, this snowstorm was run of the mill for the Big Apple with from what I can see, a mere 8-12 inches falling. Further east and north, widespread totals of 12-20 inches were achieved with pockets of 25-30 inches.

Here was a radar image capturing very heavy snow over Boston and surrounding southern New England. Winds gusted 60-65 mph along coastal Long Island but on Nantucket, they gusted to an impressive 78 mph.

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Latest snow totals.

Credit: weather.com

Credit: weather.com

Credit: NWS

Credit: NWS

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Despite the storm, national snow cover remains low at just 27.7%.

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As for Alaska where it’s been considerably warmer than average over the past 12 months, temps plummeted this morning to -58.

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Here was yesterday morning.

Credit: NWS

Credit: NWS

While frigid up in Alaska it was record warm on the Plains. Check out how far north the 70s reach!

Credit: weather.com

Credit: weather.com

The 73 in Rapid City, SD tied the all-time January record.

Credit: NWS

Credit: NWS

This cold over Alaska takes a dive south early next week on the back side of potentially TWO more snow systems.

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This post was scheduled for release last night but unfortunately the website was down so that’s why it’s not available till now. Apologies.

See video too for discussion…

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