Heavy Snow — Southern Middlesex, Connecticut

2024-02-13 · Southern Middlesex, Connecticut

Event narrative

Heavy wet snow fell across Southern Middlesex, especially away from the immediate coast. A trained spotter over in Madison on the border of Southern New Haven and Southern Middlesex reported 8.6 inches. Running just along the northern edge of the zone 2.7 WNW Chester Center reported 7.5 inches via Cocorahs, and 1 NNW Killingworth reported 7.0 inches, thus half the zone estimated to have reached warning criteria on a line oriented WSW to ENE running just away from the shoreline.

Wider weather episode

Low pressure across the Tennessee Valley and the Gulf states tracked tracked north, and redeveloped and intensified rapidly off the Mid Atlantic coast. A wet snowfall occurred across Southern Connecticut, with heavy wet snow across the western half of Southern Connecticut and interior Eastern Southern Connecticut mostly away from the immediate coast. Lesser amounts were reported across southeastern portions mainly due to marginal surface temperatures which precluded higher snow amounts in some urban locations and further east.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1152564. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.