Philly’s biggest snow in 10 years has an icy finish, and it isn’t going anywhere soon

Hours of percussive sleet layered a nasty icing on Philadelphia’s biggest snowfall in 10 years Sunday, and it may be some time before bare ground resurfaces in the region, if not normality. “We’re going to have a rather glacial snowpack for the foreseeable future,” said Alex Staarmann, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly. This is not the stuff of postcards. ...