Still To Come From Winter Storm Hernando

A historic East Coast blizzard is slamming areas around the mid-Atlantic and New England with heavy snow and high winds from Virginia and Delaware to Massachusetts and Maine, including New York City.

This storm has been named Winter Storm Hernando by The Weather Channel.

Here's a rundown of the storm reports we've seen, so far.

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Snowfall

Dozens of locations have already picked up over a foot of snow from the Delmarva Peninsula to New England.

Snowfall rates up to 3 inches per hour have been observed on Long Island, and blizzard conditions have been confirmed by the National Weather Service in multiple locations, including Boston and Newark, New Jersey. This snow has been, at times, accompanied by lightning strikes.

The highest snow total, so far, is 27.5 inches in Remsenburg-Speonk, New York.

Peak snow totals, by state:

- Connecticut: 22 inches in Chester

- Delaware: 19.3 inches in Rehoboth Beach

- Maryland: 12.5 inches in Parsonsburg

- Massachusetts: 26.5 inches in Swansea

- New Hampshire: 7.5 inches in Milford

- New Jersey: 24.3 inches in Moonachie

- New York: 27.5 inches in Remsenburg-Speonk

- Pennsylvania: 22 inches in Langhorne

- Rhode Island: 26 inches in Narragansett and Richmond

- Vermont: 4.2 inches near Guilford Center

- Virginia: 15 inches in Wintergreen

- West Virginia: 15 inches in Camden on Gauley

- Maine: 3.3 inches in York

Other notable totals:

- New York City: 15.1 inches (their heaviest snowstorm since Jan. 31 - Feb. 3, 2021)

- Providence, Rhode Island: 24.6 inches (13.9 inches in six hours early Monday; their heaviest two-day snowfall since Jan. 28 - 29, 2022)

- Atlantic City, New Jersey: 14.5 inches

- Philadelphia: 13.7 inches (their heaviest two-day snowfall since Winter Storm Jonas in late January 2016)

- Boston: 5.2 inches (near Logan Airport)

It was the first time in nine years blizzard warnings were issued for all five boroughs of New York City and the first time in four years blizzard warnings were issued for Boston.

Peak Winds

The peak reliable wind gust we've seen so far is a 98 mph gust in northern Cape Cod at a weather station 88 feet above the ground in Wellfleet.

At least a dozen other locations have clocked at least 60 mph wind gusts, including New York's JFK Airport and Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Other peak gusts over 70 mph:

- Montauk, Long Island: 84 mph

- Marshfield, Massachusetts: 83 mph

- Dennis, Massachusetts: 82 mph

- Stony Brook, New York: 74 mph

- Chatham, Massachusetts; Nantucket, Massachusetts; N. Kingstown, Rhode Island: 73 mph

- Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts: 71 mph

- Barnegat Light, New Jersey: 70 mph

Gusts to at least 50 mph were recorded at LaGuardia Airport, Boston's Logan Airport and Newark-Liberty Airport.

Blizzard conditions were confirmed at dozens of locations along the Northeast coast, including Boston, Providence, Rhode Island; New Haven, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Islip, New York; and New Haven, Connecticut, according to the National Weather Service.

The low-pressure system has intensified rapidly enough to be deemed a bomb cyclone. This nor'easter's central pressure plunged 41 millibars in 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. ET Monday morning, according to analyses from NOAA's Weather Prediction Center.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.