The snowstorm of February 8 to 10, 2015

The Regional Snowfall Index is NOAA’s ranking of snowstorms east of the Rockies by how much snow fell, over how wide an area and on how many people, region by region: the area and the population above four snowfall thresholds set for each region, weighted against that region’s own history. A storm is scored in each region it reached, on a scale from 1, notable, to 5, extreme.

Events

231

Deaths

2

Injuries

72

Damage

$129,000

Episodes

37

Every winter weather episode the Weather Service filed east of the Rockies in these dates. A few may belong to another system on the same days. 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.

• Winter Storm in Alaska, February 7 to 8, 20155 eventsThe arctic front stalled over the central Panhandle on Feb 7th as warmer moist air aloft moved over the area. Six inches to a foot of new snow fell over the area, but no damage was reported.
• Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New York, February 7 to 10, 201527 eventsA three day period of snowfall impacted all of eastern New York between February 7th and 9th, 2015. The snowfall began on the morning of Saturday, February 7th, as an Arctic cold front dropped south across the region.
• Heavy Snow in Vermont, February 7 to 10, 20153 eventsA three day period of snowfall impacted all of southern Vermont between February 7th and 9th, 2015. The snowfall began on the morning of Saturday, February 7th, as an Arctic cold front dropped south across the region.
• Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Massachusetts, February 7 to 10, 20152 eventsA three day period of snowfall impacted all of western Massachusetts between February 7th and 9th, 2015. The snowfall began on the mid-morning of Saturday, February 7th, as an Arctic cold front dropped south across the region.
• Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Connecticut, February 7 to 10, 20152 eventsA three day period of snowfall impacted all of northwestern Connecticut between February 7th and 9th, 2015. The snowfall began on the late morning of Saturday, February 7th, as an Arctic cold front dropped south across the region.
• Blizzard in Alaska, February 7 to 8, 20151 eventA 1006 mb low pressure center near Banks Island on the 7th of February coupled with a strong 1038 mb high pressure center over eastern Russia created a strong pressure gradient, providing strong winds and blizzard conditions along the eastern North Slope from the morning of the…
• Winter Storm in Vermont, February 7 to 9, 2015$10,000 · 1 eventA frontal boundary was draped across southern New England while periodic waves of energy traveled aloft of this boundary between February 7th and 9th.
• Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, February 7 to 10, 201510 eventsA series of low pressure areas moving along a stalled frontal boundary brought a moderate to heavy snowfall to the region over about a 60-hour period. Snowfall amounts generally ranged from 6 to 15 inches with somewhat lesser amounts along the upper Connecticut River Valley.
• Heavy Snow in Maine, February 7 to 9, 20151 eventA series of low pressure areas moving along a stalled frontal boundary brought a moderate to heavy snowfall to the region over about a 48-hour period. Snowfall amounts generally ranged from 4 to 8 inches with 6 to 14 inches in coastal York County.
• Winter Weather in Michigan, February 8 to 9, 20151 eventAn upper level disturbance moving through the area helped generate moderate lake effect snow showers in Marquette County on the 8th and 9th.
• Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Massachusetts, February 8 to 10, 201521 eventsA clipper low moved across southern Quebec on February 7. This was followed by low pressure moving east from the Great Lakes on February 8. On February 9 & 10, low pressure moved off the mid-Atlantic coast becoming a noreaster as it approached southern New England.
• Winter Weather in Minnesota, February 8, 20157 eventsFreezing rain and freezing drizzle caused light icing of untreated roads and other surfaces in most of southwest Minnesota on the morning of February 8th.
• Blizzard in Alaska, February 7 to 8, 20151 eventOn February 7, blizzard conditions developed on Kodiak Island as a 978 millibar low moved westward toward the island from the eastern Gulf of Alaska.
• Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Rhode Island, February 8 to 10, 20157 eventsA clipper low moved across southern Quebec on February 7. This was followed by low pressure moving east from the Great Lakes on February 8. On February 9 & 10, low pressure moved off the mid-Atlantic coast becoming a noreaster as it approached southern New England.
• Heavy Snow in Connecticut, February 8 to 10, 20153 eventsA clipper low moved across southern Quebec on February 7. This was followed by low pressure moving east from the Great Lakes on February 8. On February 9 & 10, low pressure moved off the mid-Atlantic coast becoming a noreaster as it approached southern New England.
• Winter Weather in Iowa, February 8, 20151 eventFreezing rain and freezing drizzle caused light icing of untreated roads and other surfaces in the Spirit Lake area and other parts of Dickinson County Iowa on the morning of February 8th.
• Winter Weather in South Dakota, February 8, 20151 eventFreezing rain and freezing drizzle caused light icing of untreated roads and other surfaces in Brookings County on the morning of February 8th.
• Winter Weather in Connecticut, February 8 to 9, 20153 eventsLow pressure moving east from the Ohio Valley along a cold front passing slowly to the south brought a long duration winter weather event to interior southern Connecticut.
• Heavy Snow in New York, February 8 to 9, 20157 eventsA frontal system stalled from northern New England and northern New York southwest to southern Missouri Sunday February 8th. Low pressure tracked along this front Sunday night and Monday morning the 9th as it moved south of the region.
• Winter Storm in New York, February 8 to 9, 2015$115,000 · 8 eventsLow pressure moved across Ohio and Pennsylvania to the Virginia Coast. The system brought a light general snowfall to the area.
• Winter Weather in New York, February 8 to 9, 20151 eventLow pressure moving east from the Ohio Valley along a cold front passing slowly to the south brought a long duration winter weather event across Orange County, New York.
• Winter Weather in New Jersey, February 8 to 10, 20151 death · 61 injured · 15 eventsA protracted event of light snow, sleet and especially freezing rain caused traveling difficulties and accidents in northern and southwest New Jersey on the 8th and 9th.
• Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, February 8 to 10, 201513 eventsA protracted event of light snow, sleet and especially freezing rain caused traveling difficulties and accidents in Eastern Pennsylvania from the evening of the 8th through the overnight on the 9th.
• Winter Weather in South Dakota, February 9, 201511 eventsFreezing rain and freezing drizzle caused widespread but light icing of untreated roads and other surfaces in southeast South Dakota, mostly north of Interstate 90, on the morning of February 9th. Reported icing varied from a trace to 0.02 inch.
• Winter Weather in Minnesota, February 9, 20158 eventsFreezing rain and freezing drizzle caused widespread but light icing of untreated roads and other surfaces in southwest Minnesota from the morning to the start of the afternoon of February 9th. Reported icing varied from a trace to 0.02 inch.
• Winter Weather in Iowa, February 9, 201510 eventsFreezing rain and freezing drizzle caused widespread but light icing of untreated roads and other surfaces in northwest Iowa from the morning to the start of the afternoon of February 9th. Reported icing varied from a trace to 0.02 inch.
• Winter Weather in Maryland, February 9 to 10, 201514 eventsLow pressure tracked just south of the region during the overnight hours, bringing over running precipitation to areas east of the Blue Ridge. Northeast flow resulting in cold air damming kept temperatures hovering right below freezing, which resulted in light ice formation.
• Winter Weather in Delaware, February 9 to 10, 201511 injured · 4 eventsA protracted in time freezing rain event along with some sleet caused traveling difficulties and accidents in Delaware from the late afternoon on the 9th through the morning of the 10th.
• Winter Weather in Maryland, February 9 to 10, 20155 eventsA protracted in time freezing rain event along with some sleet caused traveling difficulties and accidents along the Eastern Shore from the evening on the 9th into the morning of the 10th.
• Winter Weather in Virginia, February 9 to 10, 20152 eventsLow pressure tracked just south of the region during the overnight hours, bringing over running precipitation to areas east of the Blue Ridge. Northeast flow resulting in cold air damming kept temperatures hovering right below freezing, which resulted in light ice formation.
• Winter Weather in District of Columbia, February 9 to 10, 20151 eventLow pressure tracked just south of the region during the overnight hours, bringing over running precipitation to areas east of the Blue Ridge. Northeast flow resulting in cold air damming kept temperatures hovering right below freezing, which resulted in light ice formation.
• Winter Weather in South Dakota, February 9 to 10, 201522 eventsA weak upper level low pressure area moving over the region along with warm and moist air riding over subfreezing air at the surface brought widespread freezing rain in the early and late morning hours.
• Winter Weather in Minnesota, February 10, 20152 eventsA weak upper level low pressure area moving over the region along with warm and moist air riding over subfreezing air at the surface brought freezing rain in the early and late morning hours.
• Winter Storm in Alaska, February 10 to 11, 20152 eventsArctic high pressure had built into the Northeastern Yukon Territory up to 1044 MB on the evening of Feb 10th as a major storm dominated the entire Gulf of Alaska. This caused arm moist air to move over top of the arctic front which was over Lynn Canal at the time.
• Heavy Snow and High Wind in New Mexico, February 11, 201553 kt wind · 4 eventsAn upper level low pressure system moved out of the central Rockies late on the 10th and into boot heel of New Mexico late in the evening on the 11th.
• Winter Weather in Minnesota, February 11, 20151 death · $4,000 · 1 eventOne person was killed in a two vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 63 north of Racine (Mower County). The accident occurred on icy roads created by occasional freezing rain that fell through the early morning hours of February 11th.
• Winter Weather in Michigan, February 11 to 12, 20154 eventsStrong north winds in the wake of a low pressure system ushered in much colder air and generated moderate to heavy lake effect snow and considerable blowing snow from the 11th into 12th.

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