Heavy Snow in Southeast Pocahontas, West Virginia

A complex winter storm brought a mixture of rain, sleet and freezing rain to most of the region, with snow in the mountains, on Sunday January 16th. The mixed precipitation changed to snow from west to east during the late afternoon into the evening and the snow fell heavily at times overnight and early Monday morning. As the parent storm system moved to our northeast, the snow became more showery in nature into Monday afternoon, with snow showers lingering in the mountains through Tuesday morning.

While the heaviest snow occurred in the West Virginia mountains, with 12 to 18 inches reported, another swath of heavy snow occurred up the Ohio River Valley region of West Virginia, where 6 to 10 inches occurred. For the rest of the state, generally 4 to 8 inches fell. The snow began wet and heavy, which caused power outages where the heaviest snow fell. Over 25,000 West Virginians were without power Monday morning.