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At the peak of the storm, 100,000 homes and businesses were without power, and 4,000 homes were without heat, some for as long as 24 hours. Emergency shelters opened in Foster, Rhode Island and Scituate, Rhode Island. There was some street and cellar flooding. Total damage in Rhode Island was estimated at more than $500,000 USD in 1973 dollars.
Description of the NESIS scale. The Northeast snowfall impact scale (NESIS) is a scale used to categorize winter storms in the Northeast United States. [1] The scale was developed by meteorologists Paul Kocin and Louis Uccellini, and ranks snowstorms from category 1 ("notable") to category 5 ("extreme").
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.
The wrath of the blizzard pummeled the mid-Atlantic between Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 1899, with 20 to 30 inches of snow accumulating from central Virginia to western Connecticut, including 20.5 inches ...
Lightning from this storm was detected as far as 50–60 mi (80–97 km) away from the center of the storm. [331] A supercell thunderstorm that struck Chicago , Illinois and surrounding areas on June 13, 2022 may have surpassed its height, being at least over 60,000 ft (18 km; 11 mi) and potentially reaching as high as 65,000–70,000 ft (20 ...
Another, more recent lake-effect snowstorm of epic proportions dumped nearly 7 feet of snow across parts of New York in November 2022. Orchard Park received the highest storm total snowfall with a ...
This wide-view image, taken on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, shows a massive storm over the North Atlantic (right) and the storm that hit California with a major atmospheric river breaking up over the ...
During the evening preceding the first blizzard hitting Washington, D.C., most of the United States federal government closed, and press coverage continued to characterize the storm using either "Snowmageddon", "Snowpocalypse", or both. [6] The term "Snowpocalypse" was used in the Pacific Northwest to refer to a snowstorm in December 2008. [7] [8]