January 25–27, 2011 North American blizzard

This storm came just two weeks after a previous major blizzard had already affected most of these same areas earlier on the same month of January 2011.

The storm also came just one month after a previous major blizzard that affected the entire area after Christmas in December 2010.

All across the central portion of the state from Westfield Township to Freehold reported snowfall amounts in the ranges of 21–26 inches.

[2] New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared a citywide weather emergency early on the 25th, which resulted in the closing of schools and government buildings as well as temporary closures of all of the area's Airports.

With the first surge of snow on the morning of the 26th, many school districts made last minute decisions to either close or have delayed openings.

In the northwest suburbs, numerous crashes were reported in Berks, Chester and Montgomery Counties on Pennsylvania State Routes 100 and 29 as well as U.S.

In West Pottsgrove (Montgomery County), a 45-year-old man was injured after his vehicle slid down an embankment on Westbound U.S. Route 422 and rolled over.

In Northampton County, westbound Interstate 78 was closed for three hours overnight on the 26th between Pennsylvania State Routes 412 and 309 because of disabled commercial vehicles.

The weight of the snow also downed some trees in the southeast part of the state, but power outages remained isolated.

The continued onslaught of winter weather was causing numerous municipalities to exhaust their snow removal budgets.

The city of Philadelphia estimated the clean-up costs from the latest winter storm was at least 6 million dollars.

Residents throughout the Philadelphia area reported thundersnow, a rare meteorological phenomenon in which thunder and lightning occur concurrently with the falling snow.

Eight men wearing neon orange jackets or vests with reflective stripes and green or white hard hats, most with their backs to the camera, stand in a ragged row in snow across the bottom of the image. In front of them is the front of a gray rail passenger train with a wide red stripe around its lower section between two gray square metal columns that rise to the top of the image. The words "Metro-North Commuter Railroad" and the Connecticut state seal are visible on one side of the front. Its roof is covered with snow. In the rear right is a dull yellow off-center snow-covered gabled canopy with the words "New Canaan" in the field sheltering a concrete platform.
Derailed commuter train in New Canaan, Connecticut , after storm
The effects of the blizzard on Manhattan 's Lower East Side .