February Nor'easter Images From Space: BIG PICS
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Feb. 8, 2010 -- "Snowmageddon," "Snobliteration," and "Snowpocalypse" are just a few of the nicknames given to the massive Nor'easter that dumped incredible amounts of snow and ice over the mid-Atlantic on Feb. 5 and 6, 2010.
The blizzard broke snowfall records all across the region; some even set by the December Nor'easter were shattered.
For Delaware, the the 26.5 inches that fell in Wilmington just squeaked by the old state record of 25 inches from the President's Day storm of 2003. It dumped the second- heaviest snow Philadelphia had ever measured with 28.5 inches, the second-heaviest for Atlantic City (18.2 inches) and the third-heaviest in Baltimore (24.8 inches). Several locations across the Washington D.C. metro area were still digging out from under two to almost three feet of snow today.
Photo Credit: The Mid-Atlantic coast at 12:01 pm EST Feb. 6, 2010. NASA GOES Project
According to Washington Post meteorologists, the storm was brewed by "cold air locked over eastern North America due to a high-latitude blocking pattern, where high pressure over Greenland helps to bottle up cold over the East, and kept the storm on a favorable southern track." Throw in some strong El Niño effects juicing up the southern jet stream and providing the moisture, and BAM! Snowpocalypse.
A new storm is expected to hit the area midday on Tuesday, bringing anything from 4 to 8 inches of snow, to a mix of ice and rain, with it.
Photo Credit: The Mid-Atlantic coast on Feb. 7, 2010. NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team
Information sources: NASA, Associated Press, The Washington Post
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