The atmosphere has more moisture than it used to because of global warming, leading to more and heavier incidents of extreme precipitation events.
https://news.yahoo.com/snow-continues-fall-northeast-us-060545160.html
MARY ESCH
Thu, December 17, 2020, 1:05 AM EST
AP reporters Thalia Beaty and Tom Hays contributed from New York; Sophia
Tulp from Atlanta; and Bill Kole and Michael Casey from Boston.
The Northeast’s first whopper snowstorm of the season buried parts of upstate New York under more than 3 feet of snow, broke records in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and left snowplow drivers struggling to clear the roads.
“It was a very difficult, fast storm and it dropped an unbelievable amount of snow,” Tom Coppola, highway superintendent in charge of maintaining 100 miles of roads in the Albany suburb of Glenville, said Thursday morning. “It's to the point where we're having trouble pushing it with our plows.”
The storm dropped 30 inches on Glenville between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Thursday, leaving a a silent scene of snow-clad trees, buried cars and heavily laden roofs when the sun peeked through at noon.
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Much of the Pennsylvania’s western and central regions saw accumulations in the double digits.
“Williamsport Regional Airport made history,” the National Weather Service in State College said, reporting 24.7 inches of snow and breaking the previous record of 24.1 inches set there in January 1964.
Boston had more than 9 inches of snow early Thursday morning, breaking the previous record for the date of 6.4 inches in 2013.
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tags: extreme weather, severe weather,
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