Impressive Snow Totals in Northeast, Midwest

UPDATE: Ken Reeves has done a video and blog about this bizarre storm.

UPDATE: I've posted a radar image at the bottom and also this visible satellite image that shows the heavy snow on the ground in the Philly area (thanks to Commenter PASkyGuy for pointing this out). This really shows you how localized some of the snow was. Just outside of the highlighted areas, no snow was on the ground. As Commenter Evan pointed out below, the NWS has a special story explaining why the snow band happened.

ORIGINAL POST: Wow. This is what I said at the begining of the storm, and that's what I'll say at the end. I am thrilled to close the book on the weirdest winter storm I've ever seen. The models (and therefore most meteorologists) handled the storm terribly, saying at first there would be heavy snow over the Appalachians, then over the I-95 corridor, then backing out to moderate snows for the coast. The end result was none of those, including heavy snow for the Philadelphia area, with 8 inches at the airport (we had 1-3 on our map, so I guess we "underhyped" that), 10 inches in New Jersey, and over a foot of snow in Northeast Pennsylvania. Even in North Carolina the snow was a surprise.

And to those who said the storm would never amount to anything - the GFS originally predicted a biblical 960 mb low pressure; the final tally was a respectable 984 mb* (the pressure equivalent of a Category 1 Hurricane) throwing out 26-foot waves (download other buoy data) -- hardly a non-event, meteorologically speaking.

Goodbye to this storm.

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METRO:

Philadelphia (Intl Airport): 8.4" Boston, MA: 5.1" New York City (Central Park): 4.3" Hartford, CT: 3.0"

HIGHEST BY STATE:

Westville, IN: 19.0" Alger & Carney, MI: 16.0"Mainheim Township, PA: 12.2" Glassboro, NJ: 10.0" Ashland County, WI: 10.0" Lutsen, MN: 10.0" Timberline, WV: 10.0" (OnTheSnow.com) Nantua, NJ: 9.0" (SnowMatrix) Goshen, OH: 9.0" Wolf Ridge, NC: 8.0" Cutler, ME: 8.0" Poplar, MN: 7.5" Malvern, PA: 7.5" Muses Mills, KY: 7.0" Snowshoe, WV: 7.0" (OnTheSnow.com) Cataloochee & Sugar Mountain, NC: 7.0" (OnTheSnow.com) Cockaigne, NY: 7.0" (OnTheSnow.com) Mount Ripley, MI: 7.0" (OnTheSnow.com) Peaks of Otter, VA: 6.5" Circleville, WV: 6.0" South Weymouth, MA: 6.0" The Homestead, VA: 6.0" (OnTheSnow.com) Paoli Peaks, IN: 6.0" (OnTheSnow.com) Richmond, NY: 5.5" West Warwick, RI: 4.8" Sharon, CT: 4.5" Newton Center, MA: 4.5" (SnowMatrix) Millington, MD: 3.0" Ford, IL: 2.5" Smithburg, MD: 2.5" Derry, NH: 2.2" Haywood, VA: 2.0" (SnowMatrix) Woodford, VT: 1.5" Bear, DE: 1.2"

Some amounts from front the day before.

*986 On GFS Initiliazation map, but Sydney, NS (YQY) bottomed out at 983.8 mb near "landfall."

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