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Slippery conditions on Phillipsburg Mountain (Pennsylvania). Image via Twitter from Vern Horst.

A wicked spring storm brought wild weather to the Northeast to start the workweek. Heavy wet snow fell in the higher terrain while a windswept rain drenched coastal regions.

The storm churned up the East Coast on Sunday night, soaking places from the Carolinas to New England with torrential rainfall. As the center of low pressure strengthened, cold air wrapped into interior parts of the region, causing precipitation to change to snow from West Virginia through New York.

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Snow Blankets Interior Northeast
Snow totals varied significantly with elevation. The central Appalachians in West Virginia and Pennsylvania were hit the hardest with totals exceeding a foot in the highest elevations. Laurel Summit, Pa., had the jackpot: 23.2 inches!

Windswept Rain Drenches Coast
Rainfall was equally impressive with a solid swath of 2 to 4 inches from New Jersey through New England. Residents of Long Island, N.Y., received between 2.5 and 3.5 inches.

Numerous daily rainfall records were set including 3.13 inches in Portland, Maine, which broke the old record of 1.54 inches set in 1921.

A look at rainfall amounts from the storm across the mid-Atlantic. This includes the 24 hours preceding 8 a.m. on Monday.

Strong Winds Buffet Northeast
The strengthening storm also caused the winds to whip at up to 50 mph from Ohio to the New England coast. These gusty winds, along with heavy snow and rain contributed to close to 60,000 power outages from Kentucky to Maine. The hardest hit states were New York (17,000 outages) and Pennsylvania (30,000 outages).

Chilly Conditions Along East Coast
The storm brought a wintry feel to much of the Northeast, a region that has experienced a stretch of unusually warm weather to start the spring. Residents were reminded that snow and chilly temperatures can still occur in late April.

In Virginia, two record low maximum temperatures were set. Lynchburg only reached 48 degrees while Danville climbed to 49. Both were the coldest high temperatures for the date.

More seasonable weather is expected for the remainder of the week, but the possibility of showers will also linger for many areas. The unusual warmth of the past month should stay suppressed to the south for much of the next week.