White Valentine's Day

Many areas of Delmarva woke up today to see the ground white with a fresh blanket of wet snow, with varying amounts throughout the shore from a trace to 2.5 inches. Or you may have just woken up to your kids celebrating that they had off from school. I was impressed with what actually fell last night. At my house, I would say there was over two inches on the ground. It looks to me that Wicomico and Worcester counties seemed to be hit the hardest.

We did have snow in the forecast but we were expecting around an inch or less. The evolution and track of an upper-level low pressure area came together perfectly to drop as much snow as it could across the shore. The whole snow event only lasted about 3-4 hours, depending on where you live. If you went to bed before 2am and slept in past 6am, you probably missed seeing the snowfall. So areas that received more than 2 inches from this event in that short amount of time, had to have moderate to heavy snow occurring. At least the sun was out all day to melt the snow and ice quickly. But still beware of patchy areas of black ice tonight and Friday morning.

Here are some snowfall amounts from around the shore.
Riverdale (WMDT weather watcher) - 1.0"
Sharptown (WMDT weather watcher) - 1.0"
Millsboro (WMDT weather watcher) - 1.0"
Salisbury (Airport) - 1.5"
Salisbury (3.7 miles SSE, weather observer) - 2.0"
Southern Wicomico County (weather observer) - 2.3"
Church Creek (weather observer) - 2.0"
Princess Anne (weather observer) - Trace
Berlin (weather observer) - 2.5"
Ocean City - 1.5"
Wallops Island (weather observer)- 0.7"
Cambridge (weather observer) - Trace