Franklin county and parts of central Pennsylvania are still digging out from the winter storm that dropped an average of 1.5 feet of snow in the Cumberland Valley.
According to Barry Lambert, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in State College, Waynesboro received 12.9 inches of snow while Greencastle, just down Route 16, topped out at 14 inches.
Other locations in the area reporting significant snow totals are Fort Ritchie, Maryland, with 24.8 inches of snow, Shippensburg with 15.2, Newville with 16.3 and Carlisle with 11.4 inches of accumulation.
“Snowfall started Sunday morning around daybreak and it lingered until early Wednesday,” Lambert said. “It was a three-day storm and having that is very unusual. Most storms don’t last that long they usually wrap up in about 18 hours. Having this one last over 72 hours is about a once-in-a-decade type of event.”
While many took to area ski slopes and the backyards to enjoy winter activities, another storm has the possibility of leaving a few more inches across central Pennsylvania later in the week.
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