Thursday, March 16, 2017

Heat transfer systems can be wicked. All this snow came off the Equator from the ITCZ.

  • Connecticut: (click here) Middletown (21 inches), Windsor Locks-Bradley Int'l Airport (15.8 inches), Bridgeport (7.1 inches)
  • Delaware: Pike Creek (4.4 inches), Newark (3.6 inches), Wilmington (1.8 inches)
  • Maine: Lisbon Falls (22 inches), Portland (16.4 inches), Bangor (14.5 inches), Caribou (14.1 inches)
  • Maryland: Bittinger (12 inches), Frederick (10 inches), Baltimore (2.2 inches)
  • Massachusetts: Granville (21.5 inches), Lowell (15 inches), Worcester (14.4 inches), Boston (6.6 inches)
  • New Hampshire: Stratham (23.6 inches), Concord (15.6 inches), Manchester (11.7 inches)
  • New Jersey: Vernon (20.3 inches), Newark (7 inches)
  • New York: Hartwick (48.4 inches), Near Utica (36 inches), Binghamton (35.3 inches), Rochester (26.7 inches), Syracuse (24.4 inches), Buffalo (19.6 inches), Albany (17.0 inches), NYC-Central Park (7.6 inches)
  • Pennsylvania: Oakland (34.5 inches), Susquehanna (32.3 inches), Honesdale (31 inches), Scranton (23.9 inches), Harrisburg (17.2 inches) Philadelphia Int'l Airport (6 inches)
  • Rhode Island: Burrillville (13 inches), Providence (3.3 inches)
  • Vermont: Nashville (37.7 inches), South Burlington/NWS office (30.4 inches)
  • Virginia: Winchester (8.1 inches), Washington-Dulles Airport (5.6 inches), Washington-Reagan Airport (0.9 inches)
  • West Virginia: Eglon (16 inches), Elkins (6.5 inches), Beckley (4.2 inches)
The heat transfer system responsible for all that snow is still intact and has moved offshore. This was 12 hours ago.

March 15, 2017
0230.20z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

The most dangerous conditions occurred in Pennsylvania (mountain in background) where avalanches occurred. 

The Tunkhannock Township Police (click here) report a second slide on SR 92 south, just south of the SR 307 intersection. (Photo/Tunkhannock Township Police)

Pictures out of New Jersey show clear roads. They did well with early warnings of accumulations of 18 inches. It wasn't that much, but, traffic moved.

This morning at 6:15 AM EST the temperature in Juneau, Alaska was 31 degrees, central North Carolina was 27, Western Ohio was 23 as was New Jersey and Northwest Michigan was 13 degrees. All are degrees Fahrenheit.