 The National Weather Service, in an interview with The Baltimore Sun's weather reporter Frank Roylance, likened this storm to a Category 1 hurricane.Forecasters told Roylance that "Winds topped 58 mph over part of the Chesapeake Bay, and 40 mph gusts were common across the region as the storm's center deepened and drifted slowly along the mid-Atlantic coast".Total snow accumulations from this system were generally about further north then the previous blizzard snow totals had been, with accumulations peaking around (one area in Maryland in the higher elevations, picked up nearly ).