For the second time within a week a major winter storm, this one with blizzard conditions at times,  affected the Maryland Eastern Shore. Blizzard conditions occurred at times during the late morning and the first half of the afternoon on the 10th. Snowfall averaged around one foot with the highest amounts in Kent and Cecil Counties. Ice accretions were less than one-quarter of an inch.
Across the lower Eastern Shore, precipitation started briefly as rain or sleet during the late afternoon on the 9th. As the precipitation intensity increased, the rain and sleet changed to snow by the middle of the evening. As warmer air moved in aloft, the snow changed back to sleet and freezing rain during the second half of the evening. Surface temperatures responded more slowly and the sleet and freezing rain changed over to rain just before midnight EST on the 10th. Some sleet mixed in from time to time. As the low pressure system moved northeast of the state, the rain changed back to snow around 9 a.m. EST on the 10th and fell heavy at times from mid morning into the early afternoon. Winds also increased and blizzard conditions occurred during the late morning and early afternoon of the 10th. The snow ended in the evening on the 10th. In the upper or northern Eastern Shore, precipitation started as snow during the late afternoon of the 9th and fell heavy at times. As warmer air moved in aloft there too, the snow changed over to sleet and freezing rain just after midnight EST on the 10th. Some surface temperatures rose above freezing and the precipitation fell as plain rain into the middle of the morning (around 9 a.m. EST) when it changed back to snow and fell heavy at times into the early afternoon. Blizzard conditions developed during the late morning and early afternoon of the 10th. The snow ended in the evening on the 10th.
The heavy snow clinged to the trees and then the increase in winds caused power outages, especially in Cecil County. About 13,600 homes and businesses lost power in Cecil County. The weight of the heavy snow also caused a canopy collapse at Hack's Point in Bohemia Bay (Cecil County) and badly damaged thirty-eight boats.  Many city, federal, social and county offices as well as courthouses were closed on the 10th. Municipal meetings were canceled. Schools were closed on the 10th and 11th, some even on the 12th. A limited number of businesses were opened on the 10th. Many school districts ran out of snow days and municipal snow removal budgets were exceeded. Trash collections were postponed. In addition, the weight of the two snows caused about 50 chicken houses to collapse on the Delmarva Peninsula.
Representative snowfall included 16.5 inches in Millington (Kent County), 16.3 inches in Greensboro (Caroline County), 12.5 inches in Stevensville (Queen Anne's County), 12.0 inches in Easton (Talbot County), 11.8 inches in Port Herman (Cecil County), 9.0 inches in Saint Michaels (Talbot County), 8.0 inches in Fairlee (Kent County), 7.0 inches at Denton (Caroline County) and 6.9 inches in St. Michaels (Talbot County).  Peak wind gusts included 55 mph at Royal Oak (Talbot County), 43 mph in Easton (Talbot County) and 40 mph at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
The low pressure system that caused the latest winter storm and blizzard emerged from the Big Bend of Texas on the morning of the 8th. It moved northeast and reached the Tennessee Valley on the morning of the 9th. At 7 p.m. EST on the 9th, it was located near Charleston, South Carolina. It then moved northnortheast and was near Norfolk, Virginia at 1 a.m. EST on the 10th, Georgetown, Delaware at 7 a.m. EST on the 10th, Atlantic City, New Jersey at 10 a.m. EST on the 10th and just east of Seaside Heights, New Jersey at 4 p.m. EST on the 10th. The low pressure system then drifted slowly east the rest of the afternoon into the overnight of the 10th. The pass of the low pressure system into the state permitted warmer air aloft and at the surface to make it into the Eastern Shore from the late evening of the 9th into the first half of the day on the 10th, before the heavier snow and then blizzard conditions occurred.

Blizzard in CAROLINE, MARYLAND
From 10-FEB-10 10:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 15:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: AWOS

Blizzard in CECIL, MARYLAND
From 10-FEB-10 10:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 15:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: AWOS

Blizzard in KENT, MARYLAND
From 10-FEB-10 10:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 15:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: AWOS

Blizzard in QUEEN ANNES, MARYLAND
From 10-FEB-10 10:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 15:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: AWOS

Blizzard in TALBOT, MARYLAND
From 10-FEB-10 10:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 15:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: AWOS

Winter Storm in CAROLINE, MARYLAND
From 09-FEB-10 19:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 23:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Winter Storm in TALBOT, MARYLAND
From 09-FEB-10 19:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 23:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Winter Storm in QUEEN ANNES, MARYLAND
From 09-FEB-10 17:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 23:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Winter Storm in KENT, MARYLAND
From 09-FEB-10 18:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 23:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Winter Storm in CECIL, MARYLAND
From 09-FEB-10 18:00:00 to 10-FEB-10 22:30:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 1.00M
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter