Snowstorm Begins Exit From New England

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Snowstorm Begins Exit From New England
8AM EST, December 15, 2003

A weekend Nor`easter that spread
snow from Virginia to Maine will begin
its slow exit today, but not after
dumping another 1-2 feet of snow on
parts of interior New England.

Early Monday, heavy snow was still
falling across Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont and parts of northern New
York. Snowfall totals for the latest storm
pushed to 26" in Peru, New York, in
Clinton County near the Vermont-New
York border. Plattsburgh, on Lake
Champlain also measure new snow
depths near 2 feet.

This falls on snowfall from one week
earlier that totaled similar amounts in
eastern New York, Vermont and New
Hampshire making snow depths in
some locations as high as 3-4 feet.
The storm began to form late Saturday
off the coast of South Carolina and it
spread snow through West Virginia,
Western Virginia, Maryland and
southern Pennsylvania by early
Sunday. Snow spread north through
New York, Hartford, Providence and
Boston during the day on Sunday.
This storm was just close enough to the
coast to pull milder air into the big cities
from Washington D.C to Boston and
cause the snow to eventually change
over to sleet and rain, and limiting
accumulations.

Snowfall measured 6-12" in the
Appalachians of Maryland, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania. 3-6" fell in
the Piedmont from Roanoke, Virginia
up through Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Four inches was measure in downtown
Washington D.C. before the change
over to a cold rain.

The mountains of Pennsylvania through
southeast New York, Connecticut and
Massachusetts saw amounts generally
totaling 3-8". Heaviest amounts were
seen in the mountains of northern New
England as the storm intensified late
Sunday. Snowfall amounts by early
Monday totaled 6-14" with snow
expected to fall throughout the day and
accumulate as much as four to eight
additional inches of snow.

The storm strengthened as the day
progressed on Sunday, increasing
winds along the coast to as high as 40-
50mph. A WeatherBug live sensor in
Brookline, Massachusetts gusted to
46mph just after midnight on Monday.
As the storm pulls out to the east today,
gusty northwesterly winds will keep
temperatures fairly chilly. Wind chill
temperatures will drop into the teens
and 20s throughout the day as far south
as Maryland.

A storm pushing into the Plains today
and towards the Great Lakes promises
rainfall for the eastern seaboard late
Tuesday and Wednesday, but as the
storm strengthens off the coast, rain
could change to snow once again in the
mountains of New England.