Folks in the Northeast U.S. need look no further than their own front yards for a heavy blanket of snow and scenes of a winter wonderland. Accumulations of up to two feet (see map below) combined with high winds have led to hundreds of thousands of homes without power. It’s the third time in two weeks that a blizzard-like storm has wreaked havoc across this region – some communities are buried under several feet of heavy, wet snow. While snow is diminishing across parts of the region, portions of Maine and Maritime Canada will see additional accumulations well into tonight and early Wednesday morning.
Ironically, today (March 13th) is the twenty-fifth anniversary of one of the most intense and impactful winter storms in recent history, one that dropped several feet of snow in one storm! The March ’93 Superstorm (satellite image below) plastered a swath all the way from Alabama to eastern Canada with feet of snow, setting records up and down the Eastern Seaboard and Appalachians. It also produced a severe derecho across portions of Florida and Cuba with widespread damaging winds. It even produced a hurricane-like storm surge over the Gulf coast of Florida that measured up to twelve feet, costing dozens of lives in Florida!
