Portions of the Great Lakes are known for staggering snowfall totals during the winter months as cold air surging over the warmer lakes creates bands of heavy lake-effect snow. Each city typically reports 20.1 and 10.3 inches of snow during the winter. In Baltimore and Richmond, totals reached 10.9 and 7 inches. The nation's capital typically picks up 22 inches of snow in a season. Washington, D.C., reported 12 inches of snow this winter compared to just 2.9 inches during 2019-2020. However, no matter where the snowfall totals fell compared to normal, these cities along the Interstate-95 corridor received more snowfall this past winter than the winter of 2019-2020. While New York City and Philadelphia recorded snowfall totals that were greater than normal, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Richmond, Virginia, all fell short of normal snow accumulation totals. "After a snow drought the previous winter east of mountains, a near-normal and in some places above-normal winter snowfall seemed much snowier this past winter," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Paul Walker. Normal seasonal totals for these cities are 25.8 inches, 41.4 inches, 22.4 inches and 46.5 inches, respectively.īut many residents across parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic may feel like this season was much snowier than previous winters. Other cities in the Northeast that had above-normal snowfall include New York City with 38.6 inches, Pittsburgh with 57.7 inches, Philadelphia with 23.9 inches and the Scranton/Wilkes Barre area in Pennsylvania. The location typically averages 15 inches for the month and quickly lost its entire snow cover by the second week of the month," said Pydynowski, adding that the city actually picked up more snow in April with 4.6 inches. "Binghamton had only 2.5 inches for the whole month of March. "Even though Binghamton had an above-normal snowfall season with over 100 inches of snow, including a historic 40-inch snowstorm in mid-December, the snow season ended quickly and with a whimper in March," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski. On average, Caribou picks up 108.6 inches throughout the season. However, the total fell just short of normal for the far northern Maine town. So which places were the big winners in terms of total snow accumulation across the eastern United States this year?Ĭaribou in Maine finished the season with the highest snowfall total in the region with a staggering 107.9 inches. Nearly one-third of the seasonal snowfall in State College came with the blockbuster storm in December, when 15 inches fell over just 24 hours on Dec. The central Pennsylvania town reported 45.7 inches of snow from October to May, just barely topping the yearly normal of 45.6 inches. State College, Pa., is a perfect example of this, Dombek pointed out. "If those two time periods are removed, it was pretty quiet." "The distribution of snowfall throughout the season was not normal," said Dombek. There were two active periods of weather in the East this winter, a "one-hit-wonder" in mid-December and rounds of snowfall in late January and early February.
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