While we continue to sit on the fringe of winter storms, the rest of the east coast continues to get pounded. Above is a look at the their storm totals from just this past storm. Just how historic has this been for the other major east coast cities? According to old friend Eliot Abrams, Philadelphia has received 44 inches of snow in the last 10 days. Since January 1st of 1993, Philly has received a total of 435 inches of snow. That means that in the last 10 days, Philly has gotten 10 percent of its total snowfall in the past 17 years!!! That is amazing.
As for us, we continue to get blocked from these historic storms. There doesn't seem to be one particular culprit but the main reason these past two storms missed us had to do with a strong upper level low pressure system in Nova Scotia "blocked" the systems from moving further north.
But the good news, if you like storms at least, is that the long term pattern will continue to supply us with cold air and merging jet streams. What does this mean for us? More opportunities for a big snow storm. Our next chance looked to be on Tuesday but once again, the mid atlantic looks like they will receive more snow. Some schools down there could be going to school until July 4th!
Keep those storms away! No more snow!
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