Heavy Rainfall for Portions of the West and Central U.S.; Monitoring Fire Weather Conditions for New England

Tropical moisture continues to flow across portions of the Great Basin, desert Southwest and California. Isolated instances of flash flooding remains possible. Meanwhile, a storm and associated frontal boundary will focus showers and thunderstorms for the center of the nation. For New England, dry and breezy conditions could enhance favorable fire weather conditions. Read More >

Here's a snowfall map of reports we received at the NWS for the storm of the 8th of Dec, 2013.

See this map on: https://www.erh.noaa.gov/ctp/pnsmaps/snow/archive/snowfall_12082013.php

The tight gradient along the Mason-Dixon Line was due to a very intense west-to-east band of snow which set up during the morning and early afternoon, producing 1-2" per hour rates. Those rates are quite unusual. As a note, the 7.5 inch report in West York is highly suspect, though, as a meteorologist from West York also sent a report of less than 5 inches.

snow map from public and spotter reports for 8Dec2013