It all began on Thursday innocuously as an ordinary snowstorm over the Plains,only to explode over the Middle Atlantic into the record-breaking, immobilizing"Blizzard of 2010" by daybreak Saturday.Modest snow tracking eastward along the Midwestern I-70 corridor yielded onFriday to heavy, wet snowfall across Indiana and Ohio. By Saturday morning, astrip of snow measuring 10 to 15 inches blanketed east-central through centralOhio.
However, the storm really stepped up from noteworthy to notorious as it hoppedthe Appalachians to the mid-Atlantic coast. Here, the core of the storm'sprodigious snow swath exploded such that amounts of 20, 25 and in few instanceseven 30 or more inches piled up from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia to Baltimoreand Washington, D.C. Southern Pennsylvania, northeastern West Virginia,northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and northern Delaware, as well as muchof Maryland, all registered snowfalls of 20 to locally 30 plus inches.
In the wake of this mighty winter storm, seasonal snowfall has already climbedwell up the ranks of great historic winters in the mid-Atlantic. Philadelphia,Baltimore and Wilmington, Del., for instance, are now only inches of snow awayfrom their snowiest winter ever, and there are weeks of winter still tocome!Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews.
