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The Washington Monument is visible as a U.S. Capitol Police officer stands guard at the U.S. Capitol Building on Monday. Snow from the winter storm is seen falling outside.
According to the National Weather Service's preliminary snowfall totals Monday night, between 6.5 and 7 inches of snow accumulated in Washington, D.C. See photos of the snow below.
Describing the storm in its forecast discussion on Saturday as an “intensifying cyclone," the weather service said 3 to 8 inches of snow was possible from West Virginia to the 95 corridor west ...
Official weather stations are usually located in populated places and snowfall statistics for isolated and unpopulated areas are often not recorded. Mount Rainier and Mount Baker in Washington are the snowiest places in the United States which have weather stations, receiving 645 inches (1,640 cm) annually on average.
Heavy snow fell across a wide swath of the mid-Atlantic, including Washington and Baltimore, on Tuesday night, triggering hundreds of weather-related crashes and delaying hundreds of flights as ...
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is a United States information and referral center in support of polar and cryospheric research.NSIDC archives and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data and also maintains information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores.
The National Weather Service defines a blizzard as snow or blowing snow that produces sustained winds or gusts of 35 mph or greater and reduces the visibility to 1/4 mile or less for three ...
Heavy snow fell in the Southeastern United States, with 7.6 in (19 cm) of snow in Nashville and 3.4 in (8.6 cm) of snow in Memphis. [12] The heavy snow in Tennessee shut down Great Smoky Mountains National Park. [13] 30 dogs had to be rescued in Nashville at an impound location due to the winter weather and bitter temperatures. [14]