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Another Arctic Blast in the East; Eastern U.S. Winter Storm

A powerful Arctic blast will bring dangerously cold, record low temperatures to the upper Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, Gulf Coast and Southeast U.S. this weekend. A rapidly deepening storm will produce widespread heavy snow and wind from the southern Appalachians across the Carolinas and southern Virginia into Sunday. Storm-force winds and coastal flooding will be possible along the East Coast. Read More >

This shows the snowfall for each of the 3 days of this heavy snow event.  Wednesday was the day with the most snowfall in the our Northwest Counties.  Also note that on Thursday the area of heavy snowfall shifted southward along the lake shore.  It was on Thursday when the snowfall was actually the heaviest.

 

 

This is this events grand total snowfall.  Decatur was the big winner for the greatest snowfall with 20 inches.  It should be noted that the area from Holland to Grand Rapids also  had similar heavy snowfall amounts in the range of 1.5 feet.  

 

This map shows the actual snowfall reports from various sources during this winter storm event.