Last week, the Washington Post published an animation of snow accumulation over this past winter. I thought I'd use the same data source to highlight the snow impact of individual storms instead. Here are a few that stood out.
The winter got off to an unusual start, with large parts of Texas recieving significant accumulating snowfall. The snow continued across several southern states before moving up the east coast.
The first of five nor'easters in 2018 produced heavy snowfall in New England, but also had significant impacts in the southern states of Geogria and the Carolinas where accumulating snow is uncommon.
Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin saw four significant snowfalls within an 8-day span. The first storms came from the west, while the later ones originated from the southwest in the Rocky mountains.
The third of four March Nor'easters brought huge snowfall totals, blizzards conditions, and storm surges to New England.
A fast-moving storm produced a narrow stripe of snow from eastern Montana all the way down to western Virginia, dropping up to 16 inches just south of Roanoke.
Note: I made the animations with raster data from the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center using GDAL, PyQGIS, and FFmpeg. In order to produce the cumulative snow totals, I summed the consecutive 6-hour files.
