PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Those in the greater Philadelphia region woke up Saturday morning to a winter wonderland!
Saturday’s overnight snow storm was fast-moving and essentially a “while you were sleeping” storm.
The big story of this storm is the vast differences in snow totals – just in Bucks County, we saw totals that differed by almost 10 inches!
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Across Philadelphia and the suburbs, 2-4 inches of snow fell – but it wasn’t as fluffy as expected, since the temperatures didn’t drop below the freezing mark fast enough overnight. Snow was light and fluffy in some parts of Pennsylvania, and packed down in others.
The snowfall was mostly in the 3-5 inch range, but a rare mesoscale band developed and produced snowfall rates of 3 to 4 inches per hour across this 20-mile wide area.
This band stretched through Berks County into Lehigh County, Upper Montgomery County and Upper Bucks County. You can see the circled region on the map below.