Bad Day Offshore
Latest report from a weather buoy located SE of Cape Cod, Mass., 35 degrees, wind north averaging 40 mph with gusts to 52 mph. Waves 22 feet high.
NOT A GOOD DAY ONSHORE
Late reports of snow depths in the Northeast USA
18 inches Putnam, Conn.
19 inches Mansfield, Mass.
22 inches West Greenwich, Rhode Island
20 inches Newport, Rhode Island
11 inches New York City Central Park
14 inches JFK Airport/NYC
25 inches at Upton and Holtsville, N.Y.
35 inches Wintergreen, Va.
21 inches Baltimore
HOW DOES THIS COMPARE/W/BLIZZARD OF ’93
The official depth at Birmingham Airport was 13 inches but there were drifts several feet deep. As a whole, the Blizzard of ’93 was much, much worse. At one time, every airport on the Atlantic Seaboard was shut down..
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