Large parts of the mid-Atlantic region woke up to over a foot of snow Monday morning, blanketing cars and coating trees and power lines. The snowfall has broken daily records in Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Trenton and Wilmington, but meteorologists say seasonal records are unlikely to fall.\n<\/p>\n
Eric Hoeflich, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, said that while the storm dumped the most snow the Philadelphia region has seen in years, its impacts are \u201cnot too uncommon\u201d for the strong nor\u2019easters the region tends to see this time of year.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a textbook winter storm,\u201d Hoeflich said.\n<\/p>\n
What snowfall records in the Philadelphia region have been broken so far?<\/p>\n
Trenton and Wilmington broke daily records for Feb. 22 last set in 2001. Trenton got 7.9 inches of snow Sunday, and Wilmington recorded 5.4 inches.\n <\/p>\n
Philadelphia and Atlantic City have already broken daily records for Feb. 23 set in 1987, with over 7 inches of snow falling Monday morning alone. As of 1 p.m., the snow depth neared 17 inches in Atlantic City and 14 inches<\/a> in Philadelphia.\n<\/p>\n But Hoeflich does not expect this snowstorm will break any long-term records in the Philadelphia region for total snowfall during a single storm.\n<\/p>\n