(Atlantic) Atlantic’s 9.5 inches of snow fall ranks among the city’s largest ever 24-hour winter weather events.
Fourteen inches is the all-time most for a single day and that occurred on both December 9th, 2009 and March 1st, 2007. The 9.5 inch measurement from earlier this week makes the top ten. “That’s the 8th highest total that we’ve seen on record and that ties February 17th, 2019. So in history 9.5″ is a pretty good snowfall total for 24 hours and we see that reflected in Atlantic’s records.”
State Climatologist Justin Glisan says this was a widespread weather event. “This was an interesting snowfall event, a very powerful system. This was also impacting severe weather across the mid-Atlantic states and there was even an EF-3 tornado north of Birmingham in Alabama. So a very energetic system with a lot of moisture associated with it.”
The system is referred to as a St. Louis low. “Because the low pressure center moves over or real near to St. Louis. When that happens we get a lot of cold air that wraps around and with moisture you get a lot of pretty high totals.”
It’s the type of event that only takes place every ten to twenty years. It pushes the total for the season to over 28″ or double what we usually have by this time of the year.
