Topline
The nor’easter storm, officially considered a bomb cyclone, ravaged much of the East Coast over the weekend, putting millions on weather alert and stranding thousands at airports as near-record snow fell in at least ten states.
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Key Facts
The worst of the nor’easter appears to be over, with the National Weather Service forecasting the storm will depart into the Canadian maritime on Sunday, though winter storm and blizzard warnings remain in parts of Maine as cold and windy conditions persist.
Atlantic City, New Jersey saw its snowiest January on record thanks to the nor’easter, which added 14 inches of snow to its month-long total of 33.2, easily topping its previous 1987 record of 20.3.
Boston fought 23.6 inches from the storm Saturday, its snowiest January day on record, with this nor’easter becoming its seventh-biggest snowstorm of all time (Bostonians saw a record 27.6 inches back in February 2003, according to CBS Boston).
Wind speeds topped out at over 80 mph on Saturday across eastern Massachusetts. Worcester county saw the worst of the storm in Maryland, with some areas seeing up to 14 inches of snow Saturday according to WBALTV.
Philadelphia saw 7.5 inches on Saturday, a record for the calendar day and the city’s largest single-day snowfall in six years.
New Yorkers made the most of the inclement weather (over 13 inches of snow in Bayside and a calendar-day record 7.5 in Central Park), with hundreds engaging in a Washington Square Park-wide snowball fight for the second year in a row.
Photo by: GWR/STAR MAX/IPx 2021 1/29/22 A Nor’Easter hit the East Coast of the United States on … [+]
Snowflakes sit on the eyelash of Chris Andrade as he clears snow from a sidewalk in Providence, … [+]
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Chris Andrade clears snow from a sidewalk in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. (AP … [+]
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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/01/30/heres-what-the-bomb-cyclone-left-behind-in-new-york-maryland-and-other-east-coast-cities/