But what made this event so spectacular was just how high waters got and how long coastal waters remained elevated in Massachusetts and Maine. With winds this strong blowing onshore across much of the East Coast, coastal flooding was inevitable. A nor'easter brought heavy snow to interior portions of the northeast. Over two million people lost power.įorty-eight-hour snowfall accumulations starting on Mataken from the National Snowfall Analysis produced by the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC). In South Carolina, wind gusts topped out at 55mph in Tryon. In Ohio, winds gusted to nearly 50 mph in Cleveland. In Kentucky, winds reached 48 mph in Lexington. In Washington DC, winds gusted to 66 mph at the U.S. But winds were strong hundreds of miles away.
Winds gusted to 93 miles per hour (mph) in Barnstable, Massachusetts, closer to the center of the storm. As the difference in pressure between the storm’s low pressure center and the higher pressures surrounding it maxed out, wind speeds increased accordingly. The bigger the pressure difference, the stronger the winds. Wind speeds are tied to the difference in pressure between two areas.
As the storm did so, it gathered plenty of moisture, which it transformed into heavy snow like some sort of winter factory line.Īs the storm strengthened, the winds began to howl. On March 2-3, a nor’easter moved along the east coast, rapidly strengthening as it crossed the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. NOAA image using data provided by NASA Worldview. A massive nor'easter brought heavy snow and damaging winds to a broad area across the East Coast. Suomi NPP satellite image taken of the eastern United States on March 2, 2018 using the VIIRS instrument.
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