How Much Snow Fell In Winter Storm?
A historic East Coast blizzard smashed an all-time report in Providence, Rhode Island, and was the heaviest snowstorm in at the very least a decade in a number of different cities, together with New York City.
This storm was named Winter Storm Hernando by The Weather Channel.
All-Time Records Smashed
The heaviest snow totals from Hernando have been in a swath from New Jersey to southeast Massachusetts, however significantly in Rhode Island, the place quite a few 30 to 37-inch snowfall reviews.
The highest whole — 37.9 inches — from T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, obliterated that station’s report heaviest snowstorm in over 121 years, which had been the notorious Blizzard of ’78, when 28.6 inches of snow fell from Feb. 6-7, 1978.
Incredibly, 35.5 inches of that snow fell on Monday, Feb. 23 alone. That appeared to prime the all-time calendar-day state snowfall report (beforehand 30 inches in Woonsocket on Feb. 7, 1978), in accordance with NOAA. It additionally the state’s highest snowfall in any 24-hour interval (34 inches in Foster from Feb. 8-9, 1945), in accordance with climate historian Christopher Burt.
These data are preliminary, for now, and can possible be reviewed by an advert hoc committee of meteorologists at a later date.
The T.F. Green snowfall was simply 0.1 inch shy of the all-time heaviest Rhode Island snowstorm, 38 inches in Woonsocket through the Blizzard of ’78.
Providence picked up extra snow in two days than their common over a complete winter season (36.6 inches). At one time, snow was falling on the charge of 4 inches per hour.
Brown University college students stroll on the campus, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Providence, R.I.
(AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
Other Notables
Hernando wrung out at the very least a foot of snow in components of 11 jap states from West Virginia to Downeast Maine. Five states from New Jersey to Massachusetts reported at the very least 30 inches of snow.
Storm snowfall totals throughout Winter Storm Hernando from Feb. 22-23, 2026.
(NOAA/NWS)
Newark, New Jersey, tallied 27.2 inches of snow, simply 0.6 inches shy of their all-time snowstorm report from the January Blizzard of 1996.
Atlantic City, New Jersey’s 16.9 inches was their heaviest snowstorm in over 15 years, because the post-Christmas 2010 East Coast storm. It was additionally lower than 5 inches from their report Feb. 15-18, 2003 snowstorm (21.6 inches), and virtually equal to their common snowfall for a complete season (17.4 inches).
Hernando was the heaviest snowstorm since Winter Storm Jonas simply over 10 years in the past at New York’s Central Park (19.7 inches), Philadelphia (14 inches) and Trenton, New Jersey (16.4 inches).
Snowfall charges as much as 3 inches per hour have been noticed on Long Island, and blizzard circumstances have been confirmed by the National Weather Service in a number of places, together with Boston and Newark, New Jersey. This snow was even accompanied by lightning strikes, at instances.
Peak snow totals, by state:
– Connecticut: 30.8 inches in N. Stonington
– Delaware: 21 inches in Long Neck
– Maryland: 16 inches in Bishopville
– Maine: 12 inches in Cutler and Trescott
– Massachusetts: 33.7 inches in Whitman
– New Hampshire: 9.5 inches in Dover
– New Jersey: 30.7 inches in Lyndhurst
– New York: 31 inches in Central Islip
– North Carolina: 8 inches on Beech Mountain
– Pennsylvania: 22.1 inches in Lower Makefield Township
– Rhode Island: 37.9 inches in Warwick (T.F. Green Airport)
– Vermont: 6.8 inches in Readsboro
– Virginia: 14 inches in Whitetop
– West Virginia: 22.5 inches in Holly River State Park
A person walks with a shovel filled with snow as he clears a sidewalk following a snowstorm on February 23, 2026, in Hoboken, New Jersey.
(Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)
Peak Winds
The peak dependable wind gust was a 98 mph gust in northern Cape Cod at a climate station 88 toes above the bottom in Wellfleet.
Over a dozen different places on land clocked at the very least 60 mph wind gusts, together with Boston’s Logan Airport (68 mph), New York’s JFK Airport and Atlantic City, New Jersey (each 60 mph).
Other peak gusts over 70 mph:
– Marshfield, Massachusetts: 90 mph
– Norwell, Massachusetts: 89 mph
– Montauk, Long Island: 84 mph
– Nantucket, Massachusetts: 83 mph
– Dennis, Massachusetts: 82 mph
– Stony Brook, New York; N. Kingstown, Rhode Island: 74 mph
– Chatham, Massachusetts: 73 mph
– Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts: 71 mph
– Barnegat Light, New Jersey: 70 mph
Gusts to at the very least 50 mph have been recorded at LaGuardia Airport (51 mph) and Newark-Liberty Airport (54 mph).
Blizzard conditions have been confirmed at dozens of places alongside the Northeast coast, together with Boston, Providence, Rhode Island; New Haven, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Islip, New York; and New Haven, Connecticut, in accordance with the National Weather Service.
Along with the blizzard circumstances the excessive winds and heavy, moist snow mixed to down timber, some onto autos, even houses, from the New York City tri-state into southeast New England. At one time, over 650,000 prospects have been with out energy within the Northeast through the storm.
States of emergency have been issued for seven states. A full journey ban was issued all through Rhode Island to assist clear roads, and over a dozen smaller airports together with Atlantic City, Islip and Providence shut down for a time through the storm.
The low-pressure system has intensified quickly sufficient to be deemed a bomb cyclone. This nor’easter’s central stress plunged 41 millibars in 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. ET on February 23, in accordance with analyses from NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center.
Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at climate.com and has been overlaying nationwide and worldwide climate since 1996. Extreme and weird climate are his favourite matters. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.
