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By Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather meteorologist

Published Dec 2, 2006 4:09 PM EDT | Updated Jan 11, 2007 2:40 PM EDT

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UPDATE:A newer article is available which adds additional information to this post.

ORIGINAL POST:

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A Missouri State Highway Patrol car sits in a snow bank Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, after it slid off an I-70 service road in Columbia, Mo. A storm that dropped over a foot of snow on the area caused I-70 to be closed earlier in the day.(AP Photo/L.G. Patterson)

I'm working on a wrapup of this week's snowstorm and more will be posted here later today. Below are satellite shots showing the snow cover yesterday afternoon and I have also published these animations from this morning (remember, snow doesn't move and clouds do).

UPDATE: NASA has produced one master image which shows the coverage better than the raw images posted below.

ENLARGE | HUGE

ENLARGE | HUGE

Really quickly here's a preliminary list of the highest temperatures preceeding this week's storm, the highest wind gusts, and the highest snowfall amounts. These will be updated later today.

WIND GUSTS OVER 62 MPH:

Mount Washington [JessePedia], NH: 100.5 mph*
Buoy 44007: 78 mph
Wintergreen, VA: 71 mph
LAUREL SPRINGS RAWS, NC: 74 mph
Port Jefferson, NY: 68 mph
Dunkirk, NY: 67 mph
Johnson City, NY: 66 mph (WBNG-TV)
Cape Elizabeth, ME: 66 mph
Shinnecock Inlet, NY: 65 mph
BATH COUNTY HS MESONET 64 mph
Franklin, PA: 64 mph

*From weather station graph. Actual record shows 99 mph.

Weather Photo Gallery user hakpenguin shares this photo:

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Snow storm results from Naperville, IL; storm passed through on Friday morning, December 1.

HIGHEST SNOW AMOUNTS:

16 INCHES OR HIGHER:

Butler & Clinton, MO: 18.0"
Princeton, IL: 17" (SNOWMATRIX)
Kenosha, WI: 17"
Flemington, MO: 17"
Twin Lakes, WI: 16.0"
Sedalia & Columbia, MO: 16.0"

HIGHEST SNOW AMOUNTS BY STATE:

Butler, MO: 18.0"
Princeton, IL: 17" (SNOWMATRIX)
Pleasant Prairie, WI: 15.2"
Keokuk, IA: 14" (SNOWMATRIX)
Mound City, KS: 13"
Nowata, OK: 12"
Mason, MI: 11.5"
Forestport & Point Rock, NY: 4.5"

This is a map that we did of approximate snowfall areas. Some of the northeastern part of the map was forecast and the map is subject to large errors. Sorry, I don't have a larger version.

RECORD HIGHS FRIDAY:

(City: Record (Old Record))
-Blacksburg, VA: 72 degrees (70 from 1998)
-Reading, PA: 71 degrees (68 from 1927)
-Roanoke, VA: 77 degrees (71 from 2001)**
-Chattanooga, TN: 72 degrees (71 from 1998)
-Scranton, PA: 71 degrees (62 from 1991)**
-Washington Dulles, DC: 75 degrees (72 from 2001)
-Lynchburg, VA: 75 degrees (72 from 1922)
-Avoca, NY: 71 degrees (62 from 1991)
-Bluefield, VA: 69 degrees (65 from 1970)
-Syracuse, NY: 68 degrees (64 from 1998)
-Pittsburgh, PA: 70 degrees (65 from 1977)
-Williamsport, PA: 70 degrees (68 from 1927)**
-Morgantown, WV: 75 degrees (70 from 1970)
-Allentown, PA: 72 degrees (66 from 2001)**
-Binghamton, NY: 65 degrees (57 from 1998)**
-Wilmington, DE: 74 degrees (73 from 2001)
-Trenton, NJ: 71 degrees (69 from 2001)
-Salisbury, MD: 73 degrees (72 from 2001)
-Harrisburg, PA: 71 degrees (65 from 2001)
-Baltimore, MD: 75 degrees (73 from 2001)
-Martinsburg, WV: 74 degrees (73 from 1927)
-Piedmont Triad Arpt, NC: 74 degrees (72 from 1998)
-Elkins, WV: 70 degrees (66 from 1962)
-Mount Pocono, PA: 66 degrees (64 from 1962)**
**These temperatures were also the all-time record highs for the month of December.

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