It Snowed Juuuuust a Little Bit in the Northeast

🌨❄️ 💨 A storm stretching from Maine to the Carolinas dumped up to 30 inches of snow on some areas of the Northeast over the weekend. According to AccuWeather, the storm became a bomb cyclone after undergoing bombogenesis between Friday and Saturday afternoon as it rolled up the East Coast.

• Bombogenesis causes a storm to rapidly strengthen, and happens when warm and cold air masses clash. It usually occurs over the milder ocean waters which supply the fuel for the storm to “take off.”
• The National Weather Service considers a storm a blizzard if it has snowfall or blowing snow, as well as winds of at least 35 mph that reduce visibility to a quarter-mile or less for at least three hours. In many places, the storm checked all those boxes.
• Boston tied its record for biggest single-day snowfall on Saturday, with 23.6 inches (!). As of Sunday morning, Stoughton, Massachusetts – twenty miles south of Boston – had recorded the most snow of the storm: 30.9 inches. Some sections of New York City were also blanketed by nearly two feet of snow.
• At the height of the snowstorm more than 100,000 customers were without power, mostly in coastal Massachusetts. As of Sunday morning, there were ~47,000 customers without power.

+It’s everywhere: According to NOAA, 100% of New England was covered in snow in the wake of the storm.

+Take a look: Here are some photos.