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Winter Storm in Cumberland, Pennsylvania
Winter Storm January 22, 2016 – January 23, 2016 · Cumberland, Pennsylvania
What the National Weather Service wrote
Heavy snowfall amounts of 23 to 31 inches were observed across the county. A 66-year old Mount Holly Springs man died of hypothermia and heart disease in a snowbank outside of a store.
The wider storm
A Nor'easter produced record-breaking snowfall across portions of southern Pennsylvania, with a large swath of 20+ inches of snow and localized areas of 30+ inches of accumulation. There was a sharp gradient in snowfall accumulation amounts from south to north across central Pennsylvania, with Harrisburg receiving two and a half feet of snow while Williamsport only had a trace. The storm was rated as a Category 4 (Crippling) on the Regional Snowfall Index for the northeastern United States. Four indirect fatalities resulted from the storm in the CTP CWA. PA Governor Wolf declared a Proclamation of Disaster Emergency for Winter Storm 1/22-24/16. There are ten counties with declarations ' Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cumberland, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, Schuylkill, and York.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 609333. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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