Heavy Snow, Bucks
- When
- March 2, 1:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Bucks forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 2, 1996
A low pressure system formed off the South Carolina Coastal waters on the morning of the 1st. It moved north during the next two days and was about 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras at dawn on the 2nd and about 200 miles east of Philadelphia during the afternoon.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
A low pressure system formed off the South Carolina Coastal waters on the morning of the 1st. It moved north during the next two days and was about 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras at dawn on the 2nd and about 200 miles east of Philadelphia during the afternoon. Its storm track was far enough offshore to place the axis of heavy snow across New Jersey. Heavy snow also fell across lower parts of Bucks County. Very little snow fell farther west.Snow began just after midnight on the 2nd and fell at a heavy clip until it tapered off by noon. Accumulations reached 5 inches in Lower Bucks County in Bensalem, New Hope and Southampton. In Upper Bucks County, only two inches fell in Hatfield Township. In Philadelphia, 3.7 inches accumulated at the International Airport upping the record seasonal snowfall to 59.6 inches to date. Accumulations in the rest of the Southeast Pennsylvania was 1 to 3 inches with 1 inch accumulating around the Allentown Metropolitan Area. Numerous accidents were reported, but because the snow fell on a Saturday morning, the number would have been considerably higher if it was a weekday.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, March 2, 1996
- Heavy Snow in New Jersey, March 2, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 2 to 3, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Maine, March 2 to 3, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Rhode Island, March 2, 1996
- Winter Weather in Maryland, March 2, 1996
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 2, 1996
- Winter Weather in Delaware, March 2, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Maryland, March 2, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Connecticut, March 2, 1996
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 2, 1996
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 2, 1996
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5552508.