Major Winter Storm Wallops East Coast

UPDATE: Here are final snow totals and an updated map:

• East Bridgewater, MA: 19.5"

• Westerly, RI: 15.5"

• Pilot Mountain, NC: 14.7"

• Ocean View, DE: 13.5"

• Garysville, VA: 13.0"

• Ocean Pines, MD: 12"

• Yaphank, NY: 10.8"

• Moosup, CT: 10.5"

• Spotswood, NJ: 10"

• Eastport, ME: 9.1"*

• Pittman Center, TN: 8"

• Hiawassee, GA: 6.6"

• Greenville, NC: 6"

• Seabrook, NH: 6"

• Greer, SC: 6"

• Dekalb, AL: 2"

• Prairie Point, MS: 1.5"

This next map is zoomed in, but shows snow depth this morning. This could be lower than snow totals, and includes snow previously on the ground (which is why I cut it off in Massachusetts. You can also see lake-effect snow from the previous days in western New York and Pennsylvania, and over the Appalachians.

• Norfolk, VA: 10.3"

• Boston, MA: 7.0"

• New York City: 5.1"

• Philadelphia: 3.0"

• Wilmington, DE: 3.0"

• Charlotte, NC: 1.0"

• Raleigh, NC: 0.5"

• Baltimore, MD: 0.3"

The major winter storm promised for the Carolinas and Virginia took place today, and major snow was reported up the entire East Coast. Here is a preliminary map and list of the highest snow reports by state before 9 PM Saturday. I will update this blog again in the morning with final totals. Virginia Beach ended up under a Blizzard Warning, and conditions there were just insane, as Reed Timmer shows:

• East Bridgewater, MA: 15"

• Pilot Mountain, NC: 14.7"

• Ocean View, DE: 13.5"

• Williamsburg, VA: 12.5"

• Weymouth, MA: 12" So Far

• Westerly, RI: 10.5" So Far

• Riverhead, NY: 10" So Far

• Snow Hill, MD: 10"

• East Killingly, CT: 9.5" So Far

• Pittman Center, TN: 8"

• Hiawassee, GA: 6.6"

• Greenville, NC: 6"

The storm caused traffic accidents from Birmingham to Atlanta (big time freezing rain) and up the East Coast. This photo shows a pileup in Connecticut. You can get a list of major news from this storm in our story.

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