A complex winter storm that buried Long Island and southern New England under heavy snow and blizzard conditions spared Delaware as the state was on the western fringe of the system's snow and was not affected much by a clipper low pressure system that preceded it from the west. Total snowfall on the 26th and 27th averaged around one inch. The onshore flow also brought minor tidal flooding to Sussex County during the high tide cycle during the pre-dawn hours on the 27th. Light snow began falling in Kent and New Castle Counties on the morning of the 26th, while rain fell in Sussex County. The rain changed to snow in Sussex County around Midnight EST on the 27th. This was around the same time that snow started to end in New Castle County. The snow ended in Kent and Sussex Counties around 11 a.m. EST on the 27th.
Schools dismissed early on the 26th in New Castle County. Many community activities as well as council meetings were cancelled on the evening of the 26th.  In anticipation of a harder impact, some schools were closed on the 27th. The early morning high tide caused roadway flooding along Savannah Road in Lewes, roadways into and leaving as well as north of Broadkill Beach (including Prime Hook Road) and on the Rehoboth Bay side of Dewey Beach.
Representative snowfall included 1.6 inches in Newark (New Castle County), 1.0 inch in Dover and Smyrna in Kent County, 0.5 inches at the New Castle County Airport and 0.2 inches in Seaford (Sussex County).  The highest tide reached 6.35 feet above mean lower low water at Lewes. Minor tidal flooding begins at 6.00 feet above mean lower low water.
The first low pressure system formed in Saskatchewan Province on the 24th. It proceeded to move southeast and passed through Iowa early on the 25th. It reached the lower Ohio Valley on the evening of the 25th as an arctic cold front was starting to move south through Delaware. The low pressure system reached West Virginia on the morning of the 26th as a secondary low pressure system was forming on the North Carolina coast.  At 1 p.m. EST on the 26th, double barrel low pressure systems existed with the original still over West Virgina and an already stronger secondary (998 millibars) east of the Virginia coast. The former low pressure system moved into western Pennsylvania that evening while the latter low pressure system was already about 150 miles east of the Delmarva Peninsula. Later that evening the original low pressure system dissipated while the secondary low pressure system took a turn more to the north and started to intensify rapidly. At 7 a.m. EST on the 27th, that low pressure system had deepened to 975 millibars and was located southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. From there, the low pressure system started to slowly weaken as it drifted off to the northeast. While snow tried to back into Delaware overnight on the 26th, the offshore track was too east for most of the snow to reach the state. It was estimated that the storm caused 500 million to 1.25 billion dollars in unrecoverable lost productivity and economic activity in the Northeast.

Winter Weather in DELAWARE BEACHES, DELAWARE
From 27-JAN-15 00:00:00 to 27-JAN-15 12:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Mesonet

Winter Weather in INLAND SUSSEX, DELAWARE
From 27-JAN-15 00:00:00 to 27-JAN-15 11:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Mesonet

Winter Weather in KENT, DELAWARE
From 26-JAN-15 07:00:00 to 27-JAN-15 11:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Mesonet

Winter Weather in NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE
From 26-JAN-15 06:00:00 to 27-JAN-15 03:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Mesonet