How Much Snow Has Fallen In The Historic East Coast Blizzard
How Much Snow Has Fallen In The Historic East Coast Blizzard
weather.com meteorologists Mon, February 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM UTC
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A historic East Coast blizzard is slamming areas around the mid-Atlantic and New England with heavy snow and high winds from Virginia and Delaware to Massachusetts and Maine, including New York City.
This storm has been named Winter Storm Hernando by The Weather Channel.
Here's a rundown of the storm reports we've seen, so far.
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Snowfall
Dozens of locations have already picked up over a foot of snow from the Delmarva Peninsula to New England.
Snowfall rates up to 3 inches per hour have been observed on Long Island, and blizzard conditions have been confirmed by the National Weather Service in multiple locations, including Boston and Newark, New Jersey. This snow has been, at times, accompanied by lightning strikes.
The highest snow total, so far, is 36.2 inches in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Peak snow totals, by state:
- Connecticut: 26.5 inches in N. Stonington
- Delaware: 20.5 inches in Woodside
- Maryland: 16 inches in Bishopville
- Maine: 13 inches in Goodwins Mills
- Massachusetts: 31 inches in Berkley
- New Hampshire: 9 inches in Stratham
- New Jersey: 29 inches in Bogota
- New York: 31 inches in Central Islip
- North Carolina: 8 inches on Beech Mountain
- Pennsylvania: 22.1 inches in Lower Makefield Township
- Rhode Island: 36.2 inches in Warwick
- Vermont: 4.5 inches near Landgrove
- Virginia: 15 inches in Wintergreen
- West Virginia: 15 inches in Camden on Gauley
Other notable totals:
New York City: 19.7 inches, their heaviest snowstorm since Jan. 31 - Feb. 3, 2021, left 17.4 inches; Beyond that, it could be their heaviest snowstorm in 10 years, since Winter Storm Jonas set their all-time record of 27.5 inches from Jan. 22-24, 2016.
Philadelphia: 13.7 inches, their heaviest two-day snowfall since Winter Storm Jonas in late January 2016. Their all-time record was the January "Blizzard of 1996", which dumped 30.7 inches in the city.
Providence, Rhode Island: The official reporting site at T.F. Green Airport has 32.8 inches, which breaks the city's all-time snowstorm record — 28.6 inches — during the infamous "Blizzard of '78", from Feb. 6-7. They have also seen 30.4 inches just on Monday, which smashes the previous 1-day total of 19.0 inches set in January 1996.
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Atlantic City, New Jersey: 14.5 inches, so far; It's already the city's heaviest snowstorm in four years, since Winter Storm Kenan in late January 2022. In records dating to the end of World War II, Atlantic City’s heaviest snowstorm was 21.5 inches from Feb. 16-17, 2003. Atlantic City averages only 17.4 inches of snow each year.
Boston: 5.2 inches (near Logan Airport); This may be the heaviest snowstorm in Boston in four years, since Winter Storm Kenan dumped 23.8 inches in the city in late January 2022.
The heaviest snowstorm on record officially in Boston was a 27.6-inch burying from Feb. 17-18, 2003. The infamous “Blizzard of ‘78” alluded to in other cities above was number 2 on Boston’s list (27.1 inches). To crack the top 10, they would have to pick up at least 21.8 inches to nudge ahead of a late January 1978 snowstorm.
State Snowstorm Records In Jeopardy
Hernando could flirt with, if not break, all-time snowstorm records in a few states.
Here are the standing records, according to NOAA:
- Connecticut: 50 inches in Middletown March 12-14, 1888
- Delaware: 29 inches near Greenwood Feb. 6-7, 2010
- Massachusetts: 43.9 inches in Ipswich Feb. 6-8, 1978 (43.7 inches in 2 days from Feb. 7-8)
- New Jersey: 34 inches in Oak Ridge Reservoir (Dec. 26-27, 1947) and Cape May (Feb. 12-14, 1899)
- New York: 86.5 inches in E. Aurora Nov. 18-20, 2014 (from lake-effect snow)
- Rhode Island: 38 inches in Woonsocket from Feb. 7-8, 1978
New York Historical Society Museum & LibraryPeak Winds
The peak reliable wind gust we've seen so far is a 98 mph gust in northern Cape Cod at a weather station 88 feet above the ground in Wellfleet.
At least a dozen other locations have clocked at least 60 mph wind gusts, including Boston's Logan Airport, New York's JFK Airport and Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Other peak gusts over 70 mph:
- Montauk, Long Island: 84 mph
- Marshfield, Massachusetts: 83 mph
- Dennis, Massachusetts: 82 mph
- Nantucket, Massachusetts: 78 mph
- Stony Brook, New York: 74 mph
- Chatham, Massachusetts; Nantucket, Massachusetts; N. Kingstown, Rhode Island: 73 mph
- Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: 71 mph
- Barnegat Light, New Jersey: 70 mph
Gusts to at least 50 mph were recorded at LaGuardia Airport and Newark-Liberty Airport.
Blizzard conditions were confirmed at dozens of locations along the Northeast coast, including Boston, Providence, Rhode Island; New Haven, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Islip, New York; and New Haven, Connecticut, according to the National Weather Service.
The low-pressure system has intensified rapidly enough to be deemed a bomb cyclone. This nor'easter's central pressure plunged 41 millibars in 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. ET Monday morning, according to analyses from NOAA's Weather Prediction Center.
Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.
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