Winter Storm Plato Blankets South, Northeast [1]
Weather.com - 2/18/13, Weather.com and AP
iWitness contributor Bernardbbt sent this picture of a horse running through heavy snow in Hillsborough, N.C.
"Plato was another very powerful East Coast cyclone. In fact, at one point the central pressure dropped to 954 millibars, far lower than Nemo, and even lower than Hurricane Isaac last year," says weather.com meteorologist Nick Wiltgen. "However, Plato's track was farther east than Nemo and that limited blizzard conditions to coastal areas of eastern New England. And dry air meant a sharp drop-off in snow amounts on the western edge of the storm."
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