The National Weather Service (NWS) said a foot or more could be on the ground in New England by the time the snow finally tapers off in the northernmost states by Wednesday evening.
Lara Pagano, a meteorologist with the NWS office in College Park, Maryland, noted that while several areas in the mid-Atlantic had seen measurable snowfall for a few consecutive days, it had not shattered records. For example, she said the most consecutive days with measured snowfall for Washington is four, while the mark is five for New York and six for Philadelphia.
“While this storm has been a prolonged event, it’s not a record-setter in that sense, but it does rank up there pretty high of course,” she said.