How frigid air contributed to record snowfall with Northeast storm Matthew Cappucci Snow rages Wednesday night at the National Weather Service office in Binghamton, N.Y. (Bryan Greenblatt/National Weather Service) Looking at most weather maps, the storm system that swept through the Mid-Atlantic and New England on Wednesday and Thursday was nothing to write home about. But in a 350-mile swath from north central Pennsylvania to New Hampshire, a staggering 30 to 45 inches of snow fell. The extreme snowfall is noteworthy both for its sheer quantity and the speed at which it fell. Snowfall rates nearing a half foot per hour at times accompanied the heaviest snow bands, the system vastly overperforming compared with forecasts. Snowstorm thumps New England after burying parts of New York with more than 40 inches