On the older and more nationally oriented Northeast Snow Impact Scale, which looks at snow in the entire history of a storm, the weekend storm's total score was 4.35, ranking it 25th.
In the Northeast, the heavy snow that fell over the weekend was still causing problems Monday.
Snow and sleet blasted the Northeast on Tuesday, where some places received over a foot of snow.
City and state officials were trying to avoid the mayhem of the infamous Blizzard of '78, which dumped three feet of snow across the Northeast, leading to dozens of deaths and scores of drivers stranded in their cars on the highways.
PORTLAND, Maine Buoyed by plentiful snow and good weather, Northeast ski resorts rebounded this past winter from a lackluster 2012 season that was plagued by lack of snow and high temperatures.
It also makes street sweepers, backhoes, and all that snow-clearing equipment the Northeast needed more of last winter.
Even despite the arctic onslaught of snow and ice in the northeast the week after Christmas, the expectations were tough ones to beat.
Several professional and college sports teams were forced to rearrange their travel plans as a massive storm swept through the Northeast, dumping a few feet of snow in some areas.
Farther north, a blizzard watch is in effect for parts of Down East and Northeast Maine, where 10 inches of snow is possible along with wind gusts up to 60 mph.
Roads across the Northeast were impassable and cars were entombed by snow drifts on Saturday.
Snow began to fall throughout the Northeast on Friday in what's predicted to be a massive, possibly historic blizzard.
Forecasters said snowfall was possible from the Great Lakes to the Northeast some of it lake-effect snow.
It was forecast to head to the northeast on Thursday, bringing strong winds, more snow and the possibility of coastal flooding to New England.
While it's spring on the calendar, a snowstorm is bearing down on the Northeast after dumping from 7 to 15 inches of snow from Colorado to the Midwest.
Fortunately, widespread power outages did not occur, but the Northeast remained frozen in inactivity over the weekend and snow removal and area transportation issues will remain a story for days.
About 40, 000 people in northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas awoke to no power as heavy, wet snow weighed on power lines.
Chicago is dealing with a foot and a half of snow, freezing rain is falling in the Northeast and the wind chill is in the 20s here in the Sonoran Desert.
With the exception of a rare October snowstorm in the Northeast, slopes in the region weren't pelted with snow until this month.
Florida just happens to be warm enough for a tomato to survive at a time of year when the easily accessed population centers in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast, with their hordes of tomato-starved consumers, are frigid, their fields frozen solid under carpets of snow.
And local government officials and business leaders in Cody, Wyoming, said Yellowstone National Park will delay the opening of its North and West entrances by a week until April 26, and its East, South and Northeast entrances by two weeks until mid-to-late May due to the impact budget cuts will have on snow removal.
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