Cabot was the place to be for snow lovers in Butler County, recording 16 inches of accumulation during Wednesday's winter storm that continued into early Thursday morning, authorities said.

“That was the most for the county,” said David Shallenberger of the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh. “Butler proper recorded 8.5 inches.”

Indiana got socked the hardest of all counties on this side of the state, hitting the 20-inch mark of snowfall.

Closer to home, portions of Armstrong County recorded 16 inches of snow, and 14 inches fell in the Wexford area in Allegheny County.

“A strong band of snow developed in the region,” Shallenberger said, “and the bull's eye of the heavy snow was in northwest Allegheny County, southeast Butler County and southwest Armstrong County.”

The Cabot amount was from a weather spotter trained by the National Weather Service. Some other snow amounts included 12 inches in Slippery Rock, a fraction more than 11 inches in West Sunbury and 7 inches in Portersville.

Other recorded snowfall included 15.6 inches in Derry, Westmoreland County, and 15 and 14 inches, respectively, in Jefferson and Fayette counties.

Portions of Clarion County got between 10 and 12 inches, while Mercer and Lawrence counties were relatively spared, seeing snow amounts in the 3- to 5-inch range.

The snow in Butler County made for white-knuckle driving at times, and kept police, fire departments and tow trucks busy responding to traffic accidents.

Most of the crashes, however, were minor, emergency officials said.

Between 8:30 a.m. Wednesday and midnight Thursday, Butler County's 911 center recorded 14 wrecks in the county.

“Most of the crashes involved people going too fast for conditions,” said one trooper at the Butler station.

“I think a lot of people decided to stay home and off the roads, if they could,” added a county dispatcher.

Forget about any more serious snow for the time being, at least into the middle of next week, Shallenberger said.

The weather service is tracking a system due around Dec. 25 that could change the snow lull. But Shallenberger was not about to make any predictions about a possible white Christmas.