A winter storm brought the first significant snowfall of the season to portions of the region. Eastern Pennsylvania experienced several inches of snowfall as well as some wintry mixed precipitation.
Every event with a place to put it; 8 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 PHI wrote it up.
A winter storm brought the first significant snowfall of the season to portions of the region. Eastern Pennsylvania experienced several inches of snowfall as well as some wintry mixed precipitation.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 6, 6:40 AM EST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
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4 winter weather, 4 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall totals ranged largely from around 2 to 5 across much of the county. The highest snowfall report was from Blandon with 7. A light glaze of ice also occurred in some areas.
Snowfall totals ranged largely from around 1 to 2 across much of the county. The highest snowfall report was from East Coventry Township with 3. A light glaze of ice also occurred in some areas.
Snowfall totals ranged largely from around 1 to 2 across much of the county. The highest snowfall report was from Pennsburg with 2.7. A light glaze of ice also occurred in some areas.
Snowfall totals ranged largely from around 1 to 2 across much of the county. The highest snowfall report was from East Rockhill Township with 2.5. A light glaze of ice also occurred in some areas.
Snowfall totals ranged largely from around 4 to 8 across much of the county. The highest snowfall report was from Germansville with 9.5. A light glaze of ice also occurred in some areas.
Snowfall totals ranged largely from around 7 to 11 across much of the county. The highest snowfall report was from Albrightsville with 15. A light glaze of ice also occurred in some areas.
Snowfall totals ranged largely from around 4 to 8 across much of the county. The highest snowfall report was from Upper Mount Bethel Township with 9.5. A light glaze of ice also occurred in some areas.
Snowfall totals ranged largely from around 7 to 12 across much of the county. The highest snowfall report was from Tobyhanna with 16. A light glaze of ice also occurred in some areas. The Mount Pocono ASOS reported 0.17 of ice.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, January 2024
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: 1159698, 1159701, 1159700, 1159699, 1159697, 1159694, 1159696, 1159695.