Courtesy of Boston.com
The storm began early this week with thundersnow and 60+mph winds across Montana, the following 36 hours saw over 14 inches of snow fall over parts of North Dakota then over 9 inches in both Minneapolis and Chicago, this was both cities largest snowfall of the winter. As the system crossed the country, as much as 8-12 inches fell across Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania as well as 18 inches up in Michigan before the central Appalachains took to the stage with an impressive 24″ falling in Franklin, West Virginia, 20 inches in Fishersville, Virginia thanks to the development of a secondary low off the North Carolina coast which drove moisture in off the Atlantic.Powerful and damaging winds of 60-75 mph hammered the coast from Delaware to Long Island with 1-2 inch rains along the coast before a last minute changeover to snow as cold air pushed in.
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As the coastal low headed NNE, seemingly away from New England, so moisture as well as long fetch swells pouring onshore allowed heavy snows to break out from New York City to Maine. Enough cold air crossed the region so snow falls right to the coast. In terms of wildest impacts and despite the Blizzard of 2013 which produced over 20 inches of snow in Boston and 40″ in Connecticut, this storm has the greatest impacts with over a foot of snow now fallen in Boston, nearly 24 inches just west and south of town but while nearly 2 feet of snow is down in parts of Mass and Connecticut, ENE winds howlling across a 600+ mile fetch of ocean, is raising water levels and creating a 2-4 foot storm surge along the coast which has brought significant coastal flooding.
The storm has brought a rare ‘major snowstorm and major coastal flooding event’ with Boston buried beneath 12.8 inches but head to the coast and it’s like Sandy all over again with at least one home falling into the ocean, though this is nowhere near as severe as Sandy of course.
Amazingly, Worchester, MA has received 22.8 inches of snow with this storm while Winter Storm Nemo brought 28.7 inches back in early February. These storms rank 3rd and 7th in top 10 snowstorms in Worchester history and they tally an incredible 50 inches between the two.
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