State Police Col. Pat Callahan Tuesday ranked the massive storm that has just moved through New Jersey among the top five in the state’s history. He went far as to compare it with the blizzard of 1996, when mounds of drifted snow piled high and caused the state to screech to a halt, or the so-called 2010 Snowmageddon.
Images from Tuesday’s dig-out looked similar, but was the storm one for the books? Anchor Briana Vannozzi asked Rutgers University Meteorology Program Director Steve Decker.
An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.