Winter Weather — Southern Middlesex, Connecticut

2023-02-27 to 2023-02-28 · Southern Middlesex, Connecticut

Event narrative

A trained spotter reported 3.3 inches in Westbrook. A Cocorahs observer reported 4.0 inches nearby, near the northern edge of the zone in Killingworth.

Wider weather episode

Weak high pressure and a marginally cold air mass was locked into the northeast with blocking to the north across Eastern Canada, while low pressure over the Midwest moved east and redeveloped off the Northern Mid Atlantic coast. This led to the first widespread accumulating snowfall across the CWA.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1075054. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.