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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 7, 2010

Record-breaking snowfall in many areas of northeast US this weekend, including Washington, DC

Record snowfall all along the northeastern United States… and it’s not over. Another snow storm is due on Tuesday.

Mother Nature is making a mockery of the global warming zealots’ junk science…

From The Weather Channel, Next storm on the horizon:

While the Mid-Atlantic region is digging out from The Winter Powerhouse they should also keep an eye on the next storm that could be moving in on them Tuesday.

That next storm actually forms out of two separate systems that impact the northern and southern Plains tonight and Monday.

The northern system brings a long period of mainly light snow to the eastern Plains and upper Mississippi Valley through late Monday night and Tuesday morning. There could be a wide swath of 6 to 10 inch accumulations with some high amounts of 12 to 14 inches by the time the storm ends.

Snow from the northern system spreads into the lower Great Lakes and Ohio Valley Monday afternoon through Tuesday.

The southern system moves out of the New Mexico Rockies tonight and through the southern Plains Monday.

Accumulating snow should extend from southern Colorado and northern New Mexico through the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles through northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas to western Missouri through Monday night.

The heaviest accumulations should occur in the southern Rockies where 10 to 15 inches are possible. To the east the amounts should run 2 to 6 inches in the lower elevations and up to 12 inches in the Ozarks.

From ITN News, Eastern US hit with record snow storm:

From Richmond Times-Dispatch, Snowfall ends; citizens urged to stay home:

In the latest accident report from the state police, the agency reported there have been 1,498 accidents with property damage from midnight Friday through 10:30 p.m. today. One hundred thirty-six accidents have resulted in injuries.

State police also 33 state vehicles have been involved in wrecks; five of those have been trooper vehicles.

There have been 1,609 calls for disabled vehicles.

Gov. Bob McDonnell has asked people to stay home and off roads. So, too have the state police.

“These are dangerous conditions that will exist for days,“ McDonnell said in a telephone news conference earlier this afternoon. State officials said the heaviest snowfalls will probably set all-time records in many Virginia localities.

State police are suggesting people cancel Super Bowl party plans if they involve driving.

CBS News: NJ Boardwalk Blasted By Storm

From NECN.com, All-time record snowfall in Burlington [Vermont]:

A record amount of snow fell in Burlington from the weekend storm that left a coat of varying depth across the region. In South Burlington, 33 inches fell — an all-time record for one storm. The previous record was a Christmas snowstorm in 1969, which left close to 30 inches over a three-day period.

Associated Press: Mid-Atlantic ‘Snowmageddon’ Prompts Huge Cleanup

From The Baltimore Sun, Breaking updates on snowstorm recovery – As much as 10 inches forecast for coming storm:

Just as Central Maryland begins to shake off the asterisk-laden “record-breaking” snowstorm that struck Friday and Saturday, we turn to face yet more “accumulating snow” forecasters say will reach us Tuesday and Wednesday. Some models suggest we could see as much as another 10 inches. More or less.

The National Weather Service is advising us of “accumulating wintry precipitation,” beginning sometime after noon on Tuesday. The chances, for now, are rated at 60 percent for Tuesday, rising to 70 percent Tuesday night and fading to 30 percent Wednesday.

The folks at Sterling, as is their policy, are not yet venturing accumulation totals. Storm tracks and rain lines remain pretty uncertain. But this morning’s forecast discussion describes this new storm in a way that sounds a bit like the one that struck here Friday, except not as intense.

WTNH: Snow storm in D.C. hinders flights, busses in CT

From Los Angeles Times, Washington shuts down, buried in record snowfall:

Flights are grounded and power outages are widespread as the capital slumbers under more than 32 inches of snow.

A prolonged blizzard covered Washington, D.C., and the mid-Atlantic states in a smothering canvas of snow Saturday, grounding planes and triggering widespread power outages as people across the region turned to skis and sleds to traverse icy roads.

The storm proved a major disruption, with above-ground subways and buses in the Washington area shutting down and stores closing en masse in the face of a storm destined to go down as one of the major snowfalls in the area’s history.

As of late afternoon, a total of 32.4 inches was recorded at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, according to the National Weather Service. That two-day accumulation topped the previous record, compiled during the blizzard of January 1996, the weather service said.

Hundreds of thousands of homes in Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere lost power. Trees toppled under the snow’s weight, blocking roads. Snowplows worked overtime to keep the streets cleared. Flights were canceled at Washington’s major airports.

Homemade Video: Snow storm Baltimore 2-6-10

Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog, Snowmageddon storm clobbers the Mid-Atlantic with 2 – 3 feet of snow:

It’s a very white world in the Mid-Atlantic today, where the historic blizzard of 2010 has buried residents under a record-breaking two to three feet of snow.

The storm, which President Obama referred to as “Snowmageddon” in a speech before the Democratic National Committee winter meeting, set the all-time record for heaviest snowfall in Delaware history, thanks to the 26.5″ that fell in Wilmington (old state record: 25″ in the President’s Day storm of 2003). “Snowmageddon” dumped the second heaviest at Philadelphia 28.5″), second heaviest at Atlantic City (18.2″), third heaviest at Baltimore (24.8″), and the 4th heaviest at Washington D.C. (17.8″). Several locations in Maryland have seen over three feet of snow, with the northern Washington D.C. suburb of Colesville receiving 40″, and the southern Baltimore suburb of Elkridge receiving 38.3″.

While the blizzard was not an exceptionally strong storm–the central pressure was a rather unimpressive 986 mb at the height of the blizzard, at 9am EST Saturday–it was an exceptionally wet storm. The melted equivalent precipitation for the blizzard exceeded three inches along its core snow belt. That’s an phenomenal amount of moisture for a winter storm. The blizzard formed a very unstable region aloft where thunderstorms were able to build, and there were many reports of thundersnow during the height of the storm. These embedded thunderstorms were able to generate very heavy snow bursts of 2 – 3 inches per hour.

A new storm expected to affect the area Tuesday may add to the immense pile of snow on the ground, though the precipitation may partially fall as rain. With only a slow warm up in store for the mid-Atlantic over the next ten days, the snow will stick around for a while. This is a good thing, since a sudden thaw or heavy rain event could generate considerable flooding, if the three inches of precipitation locked in the snow is suddenly released.

From Khabrein.info, Washington DC snow storm, snow storm East Coast and mid Atlantic snow storm:

Washington was battling a blizzard. The capital is enveloped in 32 inches of snow. Normal life has been crippled. Most of the flights have been grounded due to atrocious weather. Besides, some part of the city has no power supply. Some 230,000 homes are functioning without power.

The snowstorm has turned the whole city into a ghost city. Trees have felled due to the blizzard. Other casualties included damaged utility poles. Workers of the Pepco electric company are busy fixing the fault so that power could be restored. But they have failed to do their job as massive snowstorm has made their lives difficult.

From the YouTube video creator of the next video:

In the wake of the State of the Union address, where President Obama endorsed so-called “overwhelming evidence” of global warming, Washington DC gets buried in the worst snow storm in recorded history.

Homemade Video: BARACK OBAMA REFUTED: WASHINGTON DC’s SNOWMAGEDDON 2010

From NPR: Brrr! Blizzard Of 2010 Buries D.C., Much Of Mid-Atlantic:

There’s no other word to use:

Blizzard.

Many of us here in the mid-Atlantic and west to the Ohio Valley are waking up this morning to a couple feet of fresh snow. The Associated Press writes that “officials urged people to huddle at home for the weekend, out of the way of crews trying to keep up with a storm that forecasters said could be the biggest for the nation’s capital in modern history.”

According to The Washington Post, “the full weight of winter brought life in much of the Washington region to a standstill Saturday as a storm predicted to be one of the most powerful on record dumped 12 to 21 inches of snow overnight.”

From Bloomberg, U.S. Mid-Atlantic Cleans Up From Snow; More Coming (Update4):

Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia began digging out today from a blizzard that dumped as much as three feet of snow on parts of the mid-Atlantic region and left thousands without power.

Elkridge, Maryland, just south of Baltimore, recorded the region’s most snowfall with 38.3 inches (97 centimeters), the National Weather Service said. Baltimore’s airport had 24.8 inches, while Washington’s Reagan National had 17.8 inches, its second-biggest snowfall total. Philadelphia registered 28.5 inches, its second-biggest snowfall also. In the Virginia town of Howellsville, west of Washington, 37 inches fell.

“This was an epic storm,” said Andrew Ulrich, a meteorologist for AccuWeather.com Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania. “The sheer amount of snow was amazing.”

And there is more in store.

AccuWeather said another storm will arrive in the Northeast during the night of Feb. 9 into the morning of Feb. 10. Possible blizzard conditions are forecast for northeastern Pennsylvania to New England and as much as 12 inches of snow may fall. Baltimore and Washington may see as much as six inches of new snow, Ulrich said.

Homemade Video: 2010 Washington DC Snow Storm – Power Truck Gets Stuck

Homemade Video: Feb 5-6, 2010 Snow Storm North Virginia / Washington DC, Route 50

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