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Winter Storm Noah Brings Quick Round of Snow to Parts of Northeast After February Thaw (RECAP)
Winter Storm Noah Brings Quick Round of Snow to Parts of Northeast After February Thaw (RECAP)
Jan 17, 2024 3:30 PM

At a Glance

After a February thaw, snow returned to the East Feb. 17 into early Feb. 18.Light to moderate accumulations were reported along the entire Interstate 95 corridor from Washington D.C. to Boston.

Winter Storm Noah brought a quick burst of snow to the Northeast Feb. 17 into early Feb. 18, producing light to moderate accumulations along the entire Interstate 95 corridor from Washington D.C. to Boston.

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Moderate to heavy snow made streets slick from New York City to parts of the Washington D.C. metro area on the afternoon and evening ofFeb. 17. Some parts of northeastern New Jersey saw up to 9 inches of snowfall, including Westwood (9.2 inches) and Allendale (9 inches).

Newark Airport received 3.1 inches of total snowfall, and 3inches had fallen at Teterboro Airport in northern New Jersey ina little over 90 minutes, eventually leading to a storm total of 3.9 inches there. Central Park picked up 4.4 inches of snow as of midnight Feb. 18.

Up to 1.5 inches of snow was reported at Dulles International Airport outside of WashingtonD.C.while 0.2 inches was measured at Reagan National Airport. The Baltimore metro area picked up 1 to 3 inches of snowfall.

Heavy snowfall was also reported in West Virginia and western Virginia.

Heavy snow was falling in parts of the Boston metro area early Feb. 18, including at the National Weather Service office in Taunton, Massachusetts, where, officially, 5.9 inches piled up.

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Snowfall Totals

Connecticut:7.5 inches in New Fairfield and New Milford Illinois: 2.9 inches near Carbon Hill;2 inches at Chicago's O'Hare Airport * Indiana: 3inches in Taswell; 1 inchin South Bend Iowa: 2.4 inches in Lowden; 2inches in Davenport;1inch in Mason City * Kentucky: 2inches in Crittenden Maine:9.9inches at NWS-Gray office Maryland: 5 inches in Ridgeleyand Mountain Lake Park;1 to 3 inches in Baltimore metro Massachusetts: 9 inches in Haverhill; 5.9 inches at NWS-Taunton office; 1.9 inches in Boston Missouri: 2 inches in Park Hills New Hampshire: 9.5 inches in Wolfeboro Bay; 1.1 inches in Concord New Jersey:9.2 inches in Westwood; 3.9 inches at Teterboro Airport; 3.1 inches at Newark Airport New York: 8 inches in Allen Corners; 4.4 inches at Central Park Ohio:4.5 inches in Tuppers Plains Pennsylvania:9 inches in South Tamaqua; 6.5 inches in Allentown (Lehigh Valley Airport); 1.2 inches in Philadelphia Vermont:6.5 inches in Weston and Landgrove Virginia:3.5 inches in Mill Gap; 1.5 inches at Dulles International Airport; 0.2 inches at Reagan National Airport West Virginia: 10 inches in Terra Alta

* Note that early on in Noah's time, the moisture from Winter Storm Noah and the energy from Winter Storm Oliver combined over the Midwest to provide an early burst of snow. Some of the figures above include that gray area between storms.

Staunton, Virginia, picked up 0.10 inches of ice on Feb. 17, which caused some trees to sag.

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It HadBeen Awhile

Snow falls over Times Square, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, in New York City during Winter Storm Grayson.

(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Since hammered the Northeast coast with heavy snow just after Near Year's Day, it hadbeen largely a snowless six-week stretch for parts of the Interstate 95 corridor.

New York's Central Park had only picked up 1.9 inches of snow since Jan. 4 before Noah, but still remained above its average season snowfall-to-date, tallying 19.4 inches for the season.

Similarly, Philadelphia had only managed 0.7 inches of snow since Jan. 4 before Noah, spread among threeseparate days.

Farther south along the Interstate 95 corridor, there hadbeen little snow to speak of all season.

Baltimore's heaviest snow event this seasonso farwas a mere 2.8 inches on Dec. 9 during .

Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. had only tallied 3.1 inches of snow all season through Feb. 13.

While it's not nearly a record-least snowy season-to-datethere (last season through Feb. 13 had only 1.4 inches), it had only picked up 27 percent of its average snowfall-to-date.

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