Trough Of A Lifetime Coming To The Northeast Sat-Mon Following Record Snowfall?

Written by Mark Vogan on February 10, 2015 in United States of America, Winter 2014/15 with 0 Comments

Check out these latest images of the Boston snow pack captured today by resident Chris Faulkner! According to the NWS, Boston tied the all-time record snow depth following the latest dump which dropped 22″ and this quantified as the city’s 7th biggest snowstorm in history and amazingly the 2nd top 10 snowstorm in the last 10 days.

Credit: Chris Faulkner

Boston’s seen the most snow in a 7, 14, 20 and 30-day period on record.

Credit: NWS

According to the NWS up in Bangor, ME, they’ve tied their all-time record snow depth of an incredible 53″. The greatest snow depth in New England according to WeatherBug is on top of Mt Mansfield, VT where there’s 76″ currently.

TOP IMAGE CREDIT: Max Guliani (Follow on twitter @maximusupinNYc)

As well as the Northeast, there’s some very impressive snow amounts up in the UP of Michigan thanks to lake effect.

Credit: NWS Marquette

Here’s a great graphic produced by Ralph Fato of the Top 20 snowiest cities this winter…

Credit: Ralph Fato

ECMWF shows MORE snowfall for the buried Great Lakes and Northeast as well as points further south.

Next 7 days.

Credit: AccuWeather Pro

Through day 10

Credit: AccuWeather Pro

Notice the South may get in on some of the white stuff, particularly day 7-10! Reason is that we have more southern branch energy getting involved and the ‘Pacific systems’ look to ride the southern flank of the arctic trough that will be firmly established over the East. Look out Memphis, Nashville, Charlotte and possibly Atlanta, looks like you guys may see the worst of winter coming up. It’s going to turn frigid here too.

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Latest on the arctic trough ready to drop into the Eastern United States this weekend has true ‘polar vortex’ qualities. Why? As Joe Bastardi of WeatherBell points out, the coldest air mass/trough, relative to averages from surface up through all levels of the atmosphere is in a given place and that place is the Northeast this weekend into early next week.