WILD Nor'easter For Some; Meh For Others. Sifting Through The Reports

The scene in Morristown, New Jersey yesterday.
Photo by Bob Karp/The Record via AP

Sorry for the last start with this post here on Thursday morning, but I'm finally getting my act together.

What a storm last night!!  What, you only got some light snow? Yeah, me too.

A grand total of 2.9 inches new in my yard at St. Albans, in northwestern Vermont. We will get some more snow out of this in northern Vermont. More on that in a while.

But first:

The general forecast of who would get a lot of snow and who would get a little panned out, but the people who got the heavy snow really got it. And some of the people were were expecting lighter accumulations didn't get much at all.

 t was a snowstorm to remember in some parts of the Northeast.  There's a couple videos at the bottom of this post, by the way.

Here in Vermont, Woodford, in the far southern Green Mountains, clocked in with a whopping 36 inches of snow. Searsburg got 32.5 inches. Landgrove and Wilmington got 25 inches.

In a band from New Jersey through areas near New York City, the lower Hudson Valley, Connecticut,  western Massachusetts, and, yes, the far southern Green Mountains, it was absolutely wild yesterday afternoon and last night.

Thundersnow was very common in New Jersey up through the Big Apple and into Connecticut. One woman in New Jersey was hospitalized after she was struck by lightning. It's the first time I can remember somebody being injured by lightning in thundersnow.  

Incredible snowfall rate, Springfield, Pennsylvania.
Photo by Matt Slocum/AP

One death was reported so far with this storm, that of an 88 year old woman hit by a falling tree.

The incredible snowfall south of Vermont in many areas was very wet and heavy. More than a million people lost electricity, after last week's nor'easter cut power to more than two million.

More than 3,000 flights were canceled. The heaviest snow hit during the afternoon rush hour in and near the big cities, so there were lots of trapped cars, crashes and other highway nightmares.

Snowfall totals outside the southern Green Mountains were also incredibly impressive - 32 inches was reported from Clarksburg, Massachusetts, with North Adams, Massachusetts close at 30 inches. In Connecticut, 28 inches was reported in Warren. In New Jersey, 26.8 inches was reported at Montville.

It was the rate of snowfall that really crushed some areas and gummed up the works.  One town in the Massachusetts Berkshires got 18 inches of new snow in three hours - that's six inches per hour!

STORM OVER, EXCEPT IN NORTH 

The storm is pretty much over from Massachusetts and far southern Vermont and points south all the way down into the New Jersey storm zone.

Things will keep cranking today in northern New England, especially in Maine and New Hampshire, where many places will get at least half a foot of new snow today.

Here in Vermont, it looks like it will keep snowing in most of the central and northern Vermont the rest of the day today.

Tree on a house, Walpole, Massachusetts with this storm.
Photo from AP

In fact, it looks like the snow might pick up a bit in intensity this afternoon, with another two to six inches of snow likely. (We could easily double the amount of snow we've gotten so far in St. Albans, for example.)

Light snow will probably continue on and off Friday, Friday night and maybe into Saturday across northern Vermont, too, with a little additional accumulation.

By the way, the early and middle parts of next week in Vermont look interesting, too. By "interesting" I mean we could get more snow. I have no idea how much yet.

Some videos:

CBS New York has this report of how awful it was out there on I-280 in East Orange, New Jersey and other areas. Even their news van took a minor hit:



Thundersnow in Moorestown, New Jersey: