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| New York City got snow, then freezing rain, then more snow, then a flash freeze with the storm today, leaving this gloomy scene. Note the broken umbrella in the slush to the left. Photo by Getty Images, via Gothamist. |
Snow in some areas was even deeper than expected, and the New York metro area got snow, then a nasty ice storm.
There's also no rest for the weary. More on that in a moment.
In this storm, Chicago clocked in with over 19 inches of snow, it's fifth deepest snowstorm on record. Detroit had its third largest snowstorm on record with 16.7 inches.
The weather was still rough in New England as I write this at 6 p.m. Monday, but the storm will blow out to sea overnight.
There was some impressive snowfall in New England. As of 6 p.m., Lunenberg, Mass. reported two feet of new snow and 23 inches piled up in Westminster. 17 inches was reported in Ludlow, Mass.
It was still snowing in that part of Massachusetts as of 6 p.m., so those totals might go up.
All these towns took the brunt of last week's blizzard, when they all received three feet of snow. And a few additional inches came down on those towns last Friday. More than five feet of snow in a week? WOW!
I'm not quite sure where people in those towns will put the snow. Especially if they get other snowstorms in the next couple of weeks. Which is certainly possible.
Maine is getting a good whalloping, too. As of yesterday, there was 33 inches of snow on the ground in Bangor, Maine. This storm is expected to dump another 12 to 16 inches there, and other, lighter snowfall are forecast in Maine later this week.
Unlike the past few storms, this one enveloped central and northern New England as well. While the storm was definitely no record breaker, it has been fairly impressive.
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| A really big snowman today in Stoughton, Mass. They certainly have enough snow for it. From Twitter, @TerryWBZ |
A foot of snow was reported in several Vermont communities.
As of 6 p.m. at my house in St. Albans, in far northwestern Vermont, I'd received 7.5 inches of new snow. It was still snowing lightly, but steadily, so I'll probably make it to eight inches.
Luckily, there's only a near average 13 or 14 inches of snow on the ground total from this storm and past ones at my house, so it's not like I have to move five feet of the stuff from my driveway. Color me grateful.
And blue. It's so, so, cold out there.
The impressive thing about the storm in northern New England was the temperature. The high today in Burlington, Vermont was zero. It stayed at or below zero in several northern New York and Vermont communities, including here in St. Albans.
Usually, it sort of warms up during a snowstorm, so this was highly unusual. It does happen occasionally, but I can't remember the last time I saw a substantial subzero snowstorm. Maybe a decade?
Winter is certainly going to hang on up here in the Northeast. We're in a pattern of repeated Arctic cold blasts from northern Canada. With this, it gets brutally cold for a couple days, then you get a day with normal temperatures, then another front, bitter cold and so on.
Some of these fronts come through with little snow. Others have been spinning up these impressive snowstorms that we've been getting.
Computer models are once again disagreeing on what will happen with the next cold front on Thursday. The main American computer model, the one that got the blizzard last week pretty much right, says the cold front will move right along and spread little light snow. If a big storm does form, it'll be too far east of New England to have much of an effect, say the American model.
The European model, the one that famously accurately forecast Super Storm Sandy a week before it happened, says another big snowstorm will spin up for New England on Thursday.
We'll just wait and see.
All the forecasting models, on and off anyway, are forecasting a few more other snowstorms for New England over the next two weeks or so.
It's impossible to say at this point whether any of those later snowstorms actually happen.
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