PHILADELPHIA — What became a coastal “bomb cyclone” rivaled a hurricane in intensity, incited an all-out whiteout blizzard at the Shore on Friday night into Saturday, threw back several inches of snow across the Delaware River, and elevated the “Queen of Resorts” to kingly status in the realm of snow in the winter of 2021-22.
“We haven’t seen anything like this in years,” Scott Evans, Atlantic City’s fire chief, said Saturday when winds gusting to 50 mph stirred blinding clouds of snow. “Right now we’re just dealing with a lot of ambulances and police cars getting stuck.”
In a record January, the 16 inches measured officially at Atlantic City International Airport for the storm upped the seasonal total to 33 inches, surpassing the amount that has fallen upon Burlington this winter — that’s Burlington, Vermont, not New Jersey. It also doubled the Albany, New York, total.
