Winter Storm Landon Brought Heavy Snow, Ice to More than a Dozen States in Early February 2022

Landon began on February 1st in the Rockies and Midwest, then spread through the Northeast on through February 4th.

Landon's maximum snowfall total in the Rockies was 37 inches at Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico. The highest total east of the Rockies was 17 inches in portions of Indiana, New York and Vermont.

More than 330,000 homes and businesses have lost power in the storm's wake, from Pennsylvania to Texas, according to poweroutage.us. Tennessee and Ohio account for the highest number of power outages. Thousands of flights were canceled and hundreds of crashes were reported. In southwest Texas, a 12+ hour backup resulted from icy conditions on Interstate 10.

Parts of the Denver metro area picked up 6 to 11 inches of snow. Up to 22 inches was reported in the higher elevations of Colorado and up to 21 inches piled up in the high country of northern New Mexico.

A half-foot or more of snowfall fell from central Missouri into central and northern Illinois, northern Indiana and southern Lower Michigan. The top total in the Midwest was 14.5 inches in Macomb, Illinois.

Lansing, Michigan, had its record snowiest February day on Groundhog Day, picking up 13.3 inches. It topped a February calendar-day record that had stood for almost 122 years and was their snowiest single day since Dec. 11, 2000, according to the National Weather Service.

Totals in Chicagoland ranged from a few inches near the Wisconsin state line to 5.6 inches at O'Hare Airport to almost a foot near Midway Airport.

The storm produced ice up to a half-inch thick in parts of northeast Arkansas and western Tennessee on Feb. 3. Icing from the storm was reported as far south as the Corpus Christi, Texas, area.

Freezing rain pushed as far south as the Austin and San Antonio metro areas, which prompted the closure of elevated stretches of at least two roads in northern Bexar County.

Five to six inches of snow was measured in Tulsa, Oklahoma, while Oklahoma City picked up 3 to 5 inches. At least a quarter inch of ice accumulation was reported in Hugo, Oklahoma.

In Arkansas, up to 1.5 inches of sleet was reported in Little Rock, 2 inches of sleet blanketed Pine Bluff and almost a quarter inch of ice accumulation was measured in Ft. Smith.

Accumulating ice downed trees and knocked out power in parts of western Kentucky ravaged by the Dec. 10 tornado outbreak. The ice storm knocked out power to the entire town of Dawson Springs, Kentucky, which suffered up to EF4 damage from the tornado outbreak.

Up to a third of an inch of ice accumulation was also reported in the Cincinnati metro area and up to a tenth inch had accumulated in Pittsburgh.

Ice accumulated on Feb. 4 from northern Kentucky to Massachusetts. More than a third of an inch of ice has accumulated in portions of northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York state.

The storm wrapped up in the Northeast late on Feb. 4 with heavy snow falling in northern New England. Ice accreted in Massachusetts and southern Upstate New York while rain fall from New York City southward.

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