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Winter Storm Kenan met blizzard criteria Friday night into Saturday afternoon at Boston's Logan Airport; throughout eastern Massachusetts and in Rhode Island; along the coastal strip of New Jersey; along the Delaware Beaches; in Suffolk County, New York; in New London County, Connecticut; and in Portland and Augusta, Maine.

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Winter Storm Kenan got its start as a phasing of a weak low pressure system east of Florida's Atlantic coast and a jet stream disturbance from the Plains combined over the mid-Atlantic late on Jan. 28 into early on Jan. 29.

Light snow fell through parts of the Mid-South and South, including Nashville, Atlanta and Raleigh on the night of Jan. 28. Snow began in the mid-Atlantic and southern New England that night and increased rapidly in intensity into early on Jan. 29 on the coastal Northeast.

Low pressure strengthened rapidly as it tracked northeastward near the East Coast in response to the upper-level disturbance moving through the eastern United States. That allowed Winter Storm Kenan to become a "bomb cyclone" – a term meteorologists use for a low-pressure system associated with fronts with a central pressure that plunges at least 24 millibars in 24 hours or less. In this case, it dropped 35 mb in 18 hours, as of Saturday morning. A storm with lower pressure is stronger. Pressure dropped to around 972 mb as Kenan moved northeastward just east of the 40N/70W benchmark on the afternoon of Jan. 29, then dropped to 969 mb by that night.

The combination of wind and snow greatly reduced visibility and led to whiteout conditions at times.

In addition to the snow and wind, coastal flooding was observed, including on Nantucket and in Scituate.

Southeastern Massachusetts ended up being the bullseye, as forecast, for Kenan's heavy snowfall as bands persisted over the area for much of Saturday. At least 27.3 inches of snow was measured at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Strong winds caused snowdrifts several times higher than official snowfall reports.

An estimated 30.4 inches in Sharon, Massachusetts, which is just south of the Boston metro. In Boston proper, 24.2 inches has been reported. Of that, 23.6 inches fell on Saturday, tying the snowiest day on record for the city.

Additional snow reports can be found at the bottom of this article. NYC's Central Park has picked up 8.3 inches, which broke a 117-year-old daily snowfall record. New York's JFK Airport picked up 12.6 inches and LaGuardia picked up 10.5 inches. Philadelphia picked up 7.5 inches.

A wind gust of 83 mph was measured in Chatham, Massachusetts, and winds gusted over 30 mph in New York City and 43 mph in Boston. Nantucket island reported gusts over 60 mph.

Snow and Wind Reports

Here's the top snowfall total reports by state:

Connecticut: 22 inches in Norwich

Delaware: 14.2 inches in Lewes

Maine: 19 inches in East Machias

Maryland: 14 inches near Ocean Pines

Massachusetts: 30.9 inches in Stoughton; 24.2 inches in Boston

New Jersey: 21 inches in Bayville; 16 inches in Atlantic City

New York: 24.7 inches at Islip Airport; JFK Airport: 12.6 inches; Central Park: 8.3 inches

North Carolina: 9.7 inches near Burnsville

Pennsylvania: 9.0 inches in Lower Makefield Township; 7.5 inches in Philadelphia

Rhode Island: 24.6 inches near Warren

South Carolina: estimated 3 inches in Florence

Tennessee: 12.0 inches in Gatlinburg

Vermont: 3.2 inches in Putney

Virginia: estimated 9.5 inches near Oak Hall

Here's the top wind gust reports by state:

Connecticut: 65 mph near New London

Maine: 71 mph near Maxwell Point

Massachusetts: 83 mph near Wellfleet

New Hampshire: 67 mph near Rye

New York: 63 mph near Montauk

Rhode Island: 72 mph near Block Island

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