![]() ![]() To the north of the storm’s path, incredible snowfalls were reported. The track of the storm was not the usual coastal nor’easter variety (that normally produces great snowstorms) but rather a low that moved northeast from the lower Tennessee Valley and across the mid-Atlantic states and offshore around New York City. Probably the deepest April snowfall in the history of the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic occurred on April 1, 1807, from Illinois to the Northeast. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both noted the event in their diaries. Both Philadelphia and New York City reported “a considerable quantity of snow”. Some Historic Pre–Weather-Bureau Late-Season SnowstormsĪ general snowfall of around 4” occurred from northern Virginia to southern New England. Buffalo, New York, picked up just an inch or so. Pittsburgh received no accumulation since the temperature never managed to fall below 35☏. Peak state totals include 16.0” at Arkwright, New York 14.0” at Sylvania, Pennsylvania 6.0” at Frostburg, Maryland 5.0” at Crawley, West Virginia and 23.7” at Laurel Summit, Pennsylvania (elevation 2770’). Only elevations above about 1500 feet received substantial accumulations. In the end, temperatures remained just warm enough at lower elevations to cause most precipitation to fall as rain. The storm, however, was not quite as widespread or severe as the 1928 event or as bad as some forecasts had predicted. Maximum state snowfalls were said to have been 40” in West Virginia (with 19” at Elkins), 36” in Pennsylvania, 15.5” in Kentucky, 14.0” in Virginia, and 13.0” in North Carolina.Īpril Snow Event of April 22-24, 2012 in New York and PennsylvaniaĪ more recent late-season snow event was that which affected portions of the Appalachians and western New York State on April 22-24, 2012. Cold air aloft dropped the snow levels to about 2000’ in the central Appalachian region. The storms converged off the coast of Virginia and slowly moved north. This storm formed in the Gulf of Mexico with a secondary low centered over western North Carolina. The greatest late-April snow on record for the Appalachians was that of April 27-28, 1928, when up to 40” of snow fell in the mountains of West Virginia. The April 27-28, 1928 Appalachian Snowstorm The Southern Appalachians have also recorded some phenomenal late-season snowfalls including a reported 60.0” accumulation at Newfound Gap, North Carolina, on April 2-5, 1987, and another (even more incredible) 60.0” accumulation at Mount Pisgah, North Carolina, on May 5-8, 1992! These were not official measurements, however. Sacramento, California’s capital city, received a record two-day rainfall of 8.37” during this event. was 194” (over 16 feet!) that fell during a massive spring blizzard at the Sierra Nevada railway summit station of Norden over the four-day period of April 20-23, 1880. The greatest single-storm snowfall on record in the U.S. Great California Storm of April 20-23, 1880 Massachusetts: 36.0” at Milford on March 31-April 1, 1997 Nevada: 45.0” at Glenbrook on April 4, 1958 Ohio: 30.0” in 24 hours near Warren on April 20, 1901. Montana’s state record for such was an amazing 48.0” at Shonkin on the even more amazing dates of May 28-29, 1982! Here are a few more: ![]() ![]() Some all-time 24-hour state records have also been set in April or even May aside from the national record at Silver Lake, Colorado, mentioned earlier and the North Dakota record in the above list. Minot, North Dakota: 27.0”, April 27-28, 1984 (state record for any month) cities that have observed their all-time greatest 24-hour snowfalls (for any month) during April or May: Some Historic Late-Season Snowfalls in the U.S. June is normally when Arizona measures its hottest temperatures of the year the state’s all-time record of 128☏ was observed at Havasu City on June 29, 1994. Also of interest is that the latest snow on record in Flagstaff, Arizona, occurred on June 8. It’s interesting to note that Atlanta’s latest measurable snowfall occurred only a few days earlier than that of New York City’s (April 25 versus April 29). ![]()
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