It took one day for Southern Ocean County to easily surpass the total snowfall accumulations for the last two winters when Winter Storm Frida (so named by the Weather Channel) hit the area Jan. 3

“Actually, it was probably accomplished in six hours,” said David Robinson, state climatologist from Rutgers University. “Last year, there was a little snow and the winter before that hardly any.”

In fact, he said the winter of 2019-20 had average accumulations of 0.6 inches in Southern Ocean and Burlington counties, which broke the mark for snow scarcity.