The Allsnow Blizzard of 2026

[donsutherland1]

2 hours ago, ILoveWinter said:

NWS responded as follows:

“The 0.15" was an automated measurement determined to be erroneous, likely from snowmelt getting into the gauge. A trace of snow was reported by our Park observers after 1 pm, and the storm total for the event is 19.7.”

Thank you for this update. 

[EWR757]

The siting of the ASOS in Central Park is poor.   A large chunk of heavy, wet snow could easily fall into the gauge from nearby trees during a wind gust.   In addition, the lack of any augmentation and backup causes periodic erroneous measurements.   The AWPAGs in ASOS are much better with frozen precipitation than the heated tipping buckets, but they are not foolproof.  NYC deserves better.  
 

While the mesoscale models and NBM forecasted more accurately along the coast, the ECMWF and UKMET did the best in western NJ and eastern PA.   Both opposing model solutions were accurate and inaccurate, at the same time.  A Blizzard Warning 20+ miles west of NYC was not needed as the criteria was never met.  
 

In Somerset County, NJ I measured 12”, the NWS forecasted 15-26” and the NBM consistently forecasted about 20”.   The errors were even greater further west.
 

All in all an impressive and well forecast storm.   It’s too bad the climatological record needs to be QCd, corrected and amended post-event.

The ASOS at EWR is in Union County on the southeast corner of the airport property.   Snow is measured approximately 2 miles northeast of the ASOS in Essex County.   It’s still on airport property but the county boundary slices the airport in half.

[The 4 Seasons]

Snowfall totals map for this historic February 22-23, 2026 Blizzard.

As always thanks for everyone who sent me reports. Data is from here, cocorahs, COOP and official sites. This L Northeast is all i have done so far after about 16 hours it was a massive undertaking. I tried to include all reports but some don't fit and had to be excluded. The site will be updated soon but these maps are not up yet. This will be the 2nd historic storm of the season and ill have everything including a full radar animation up on the site in the coming days. 

There is some incomplete data on the PNS and NWS snowfall maps so beware. BOX is only using 1-day cocorahs totals for some reason and not including both days, so a ton of the reports are very low that say "cocorahs" next to them. OKX did the same thing but instead of only including the 23rd they mostly just used the 22nd. 

On a technical note there is exactly 398 reports on here from well over 1,000 sifted through, probably closer to 2k. This was only the 4th time ever including a 40"+ snowfall contour for all the events i've done. Gotta say this is one the coolest looking snowfall maps ive ever produced. 

I mentioned earlier the forecast for CT was very good to great. For the overall region it was probably a C/C+?  Too low for SE MA/NJ even though i put 24"+ in text, that is not sufficient and it needed a whole new range of 24-36+. Too high for NW MA and Catskills. Our final call was the same as the first but i had a 2nd and final update ready to go where i had SE MA/NJ in a 24-36" range but never posted/released it. I figured the first call was good and didn't want to change the map if i didnt have to but in retrospect im kicking myself a bit for not doing so. Oh well. 

The Tri-State only map is not done yet but will be coming soon. If there is anything missing or needs to be adjusted let me know. With these big storms, this probably wont be the true final....with an error or two or additional/changed reports needed. 

First and Final Call

[MJO812]

So much melting

[The 4 Seasons]

6 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

So much melting

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

14 hours ago, ILoveWinter said:

NWS responded as follows:

“The 0.15" was an automated measurement determined to be erroneous, likely from snowmelt getting into the gauge. A trace of snow was reported by our Park observers after 1 pm, and the storm total for the event is 19.7.”

Not buying it. Look at the radar from 1-3pm yesterday and Central park was under some very heavy echoes and I believe also reported heavy snow. You don't get a trace from that in a two hour period.

I also could be wrong on this, but I thought the precipitation from 1251 to 351 was .28. The snowfall measurement was at 1 PM for 19.7 inches so the math doesn't work.
 

Again, I'm grateful they got as close as they did, much better than some of the abominations in the past.

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Snowfall totals map for this historic February 22-23, 2026 Blizzard.

As always thanks for everyone who sent me reports. Data is from here, cocorahs, COOP and official sites. This L Northeast is all i have done so far after about 16 hours it was a massive undertaking. I tried to include all reports but some don't fit and had to be excluded. The site will be updated soon but these maps are not up yet. This will be the 2nd historic storm of the season and ill have everything including a full radar animation up on the site in the coming days. 

There is some incomplete data on the PNS and NWS snowfall maps so beware. BOX is only using 1-day cocorahs totals for some reason and not including both days, so a ton of the reports are very low that say "cocorahs" next to them. OKX did the same thing but instead of only including the 23rd they mostly just used the 22nd. 

On a technical note there is exactly 398 reports on here from well over 1,000 sifted through, probably closer to 2k. This was only the 4th time ever including a 40"+ snowfall contour for all the events i've done. Gotta say this is one the coolest looking snowfall maps ive ever produced. 

I mentioned earlier the forecast for CT was very good to great. For the overall region it was probably a C/C+?  Too low for SE MA/NJ even though i put 24"+ in text, that is not sufficient and it needed a whole new range of 24-36+. Too high for NW MA and Catskills. Our final call was the same as the first but i had a 2nd and final update ready to go where i had SE MA/NJ in a 24-36" range but never posted/released it. I figured the first call was good and didn't want to change the map if i didnt have to but in retrospect im kicking myself a bit for not doing so. Oh well. 

The Tri-State only map is not done yet but will be coming soon. If there is anything missing or needs to be adjusted let me know. With these big storms, this probably wont be the true final....with an error or two or additional/changed reports needed. 

First and Final Call

Phenomenal job with these. So above and beyond any other maps you can find online for storm totals.

[deathstar9]

On 2/24/2026 at 2:04 PM, MANDA said:

Analyzed lowest pressure was 966MB.  Analyzed track was about 60 miles south of the BM.  

Full warm seclusion.

 

Makes sense on the track.  Winds were solid but not epic.  March 2017 had more consistent/ stronger winds inland despite being 10mb weaker but crossed east LI and into east SNE so low was far closer.

[The 4 Seasons]

17 hours ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

Phenomenal job with these. So above and beyond any other maps you can find online for storm totals.

Thanks working on an update now, somehow i feel it wont be the last lol

[Newman]

From the NCEI site:

NCEI is targeting a late-week release for the February 22-24, 2026 snow storm NESIS value.

[The 4 Seasons]

8 minutes ago, Newman said:

From the NCEI site:

NCEI is targeting a late-week release for the February 22-24, 2026 snow storm NESIS value.

What about Jan 25-26th? That had to be at least a NESIS 2 or 3 maybe higher considering how many big cities were impacted with significant snow. Especially NYC to BOS. That's gotta be coming i would think. I dont see it on the NCEI site yet.

If something like Jan 7th 2022 is on there  i have to imagine Jan 2026 will be coming. 

[Newman]

9 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

What about Jan 25-26th? That had to be at least a NESIS 2 or 3 maybe higher considering how many big cities were impacted with significant snow. Especially NYC to BOS. That's gotta be coming i would think. I dont see it on the NCEI site yet.

If something like Jan 7th 2022 is on there  i have to imagine Jan 2026 will be coming. 

They almost certainly have to do a rating for the Jan 25-26th storm, I'm very surprised it's not on there yet. I also just discovered they're including storms that impact areas outside the East Coast? I guess they have always done so if the storm impacts the Northeast in some capacity. December 2022 which was almost entirely uneventful for the East, outside of northern New England, is ranked 4th on the all-time NESIS scale for it's large snow footprint over the upper Mid-West and northern Plains. With that in mind, the January storm should be coming up soon.

[The 4 Seasons]

6 minutes ago, Newman said:

They almost certainly have to do a rating for the Jan 25-26th storm, I'm very surprised it's not on there yet. I also just discovered they're including storms that impact areas outside the East Coast? I guess they have always done so if the storm impacts the Northeast in some capacity. December 2022 which was almost entirely uneventful for the East, outside of northern New England, is ranked 4th on the all-time NESIS scale for it's large snow footprint over the upper Mid-West and northern Plains. With that in mind, the January storm should be coming up soon.

Yeah Dec 2022 Cat 4 always seemed weird but looking closer its a Cat 4 for upper midwest/plains and Cat 1 for Northeast only

Jan 25-26th is not on that list

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/rsi/

[Winter Wizard]

2 hours ago, Newman said:

They almost certainly have to do a rating for the Jan 25-26th storm, I'm very surprised it's not on there yet. I also just discovered they're including storms that impact areas outside the East Coast? I guess they have always done so if the storm impacts the Northeast in some capacity. December 2022 which was almost entirely uneventful for the East, outside of northern New England, is ranked 4th on the all-time NESIS scale for it's large snow footprint over the upper Mid-West and northern Plains. With that in mind, the January storm should be coming up soon.

I am not sure when or why they decided to change the methodology but it really skews the rankings. I was surprised the 1/5-6/25 storm did not make the rankings considering it was a more impactful and wide reaching storm in the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic than both early 2022 storms which snuck in as a Category-1. Or if those December 2022 storms could make it, why not 1/7/24 which brought a swath of 12"+ to the interior Northeast? Or 3/13/23? 

Anyway, the late January storm absolutely should make the rankings considering all of DC-BOS received over 6" of snow, and of course impacts spread well beyond that. My guess for that would be upper Category-3 or low end Category-4.

For this blizzard, my guess is Category-3 in Boxing Day range. 

[The 4 Seasons]

Updated snowfall analysis maps for the Blizzard of 2026. SNE & CT only maps are up as well. This may be updated in the future. A full page with radar/sfc/upper air maps coming soon. 

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/winter-25-26

Lower Northeast

Contours Only

Tri-Sate Area

[Nibor]

Select scenes from the Blizzard over 24 hours. Full album here: https://imgur.com/a/blizzard-2026-jersey-city-hoboken-negJG61

Early Afternoon Sunday 2/22/26:

~5:00 PM 2/22/26:

~8:00PM - 10:00PM 2/22/26:

After Midnight 2/23/26:

Late morning early afternoon 2/23/26:

 

[MANDA]

24 minutes ago, Nibor said:

Select scenes from the Blizzard over 24 hours. Full album here: https://imgur.com/a/blizzard-2026-jersey-city-hoboken-negJG61

Early Afternoon Sunday 2/22/26:

~5:00 PM 2/22/26:

~8:00PM - 10:00PM 2/22/26:

After Midnight 2/23/26:

Late morning early afternoon 2/23/26:

 

Great stuff !!!!!