A cold front crossed the Mid Atlantic region during the morning hours of January 28. The eastern Great Lakes remained unfrozen, allowing lake effect snow showers to develop across the Allegheny Front and Potomac Highlands during the mid afternoon January 28 through the early morning hours of January 26.
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.
The episode as NWS LWX wrote it up.
A cold front crossed the Mid Atlantic region during the morning hours of January 28. The eastern Great Lakes remained unfrozen, allowing lake effect snow showers to develop across the Allegheny Front and Potomac Highlands during the mid afternoon January 28 through the early morning hours of January 26. Snowfall amounts up to 3 inches were reported by the Virginia Department of Transportation across Highland County.
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall amounts up to 3.0 inches were reported by the Virginia Department of Transportation across Highland County.
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