Low pressure developed offshore before moving out to sea. Colder air worked its way in from the north causing rain to end as a period of snow.
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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.
Low pressure developed offshore before moving out to sea. Colder air worked its way in from the north causing rain to end as a period of snow. Accumulating snow took place along the Mason-Dixon line where colder air worked its way in first before most of the moisture was gone.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall totaled up to 2.0 inches in Norrisville.
Snowfall totaled up to 2.2 inches in Glyndon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Maryland in 2017Every state in 2017This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, March 2017
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 680006, 680007.