22 February 2025

This week was cold in Pittsburgh but no snow after Monday so I was surprised on Friday when my mother said she had 12″ of snow at her home in Virginia Beach.

Early this week I was relieved to see that a severe winter storm was going to pass south of Pennsylvania and so I ignored it.

But it couldn’t be ignored south of here. The colored dots on this map are 4-12 inches of snow falling between noon on Tuesday 18 Feb and noon Friday 21 Feb. The time span doesn’t even include the start of the storm!

It wreaked havoc across Virginia and made national news on the CBS Morning Show (which I never see because I’m busy blogging).

Wasn’t that fun … not! Click here if you’re curious about snowfall totals in Hampton Roads and northeastern North Carolina.

p.s. Interestingly the heaviest snowfall on that screenshot map was in the snow belt at Oneida Lake in upstate New York — more than 54 inches!