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Worst winter storm in more than 120 years blasted Gulf Coast states, including first-ever Blizzard Warning in Louisiana. New Orleans saw 8 inches of snow, making this the worst storm since 1895.
By contrast, the Sunshine State’s previous snowfall record was set at 4 inches in Milton on March 6, 1954. Meanwhile, a nearly 70-mile stretch of the major highway Interstate 10 was closed from ...
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The Blizzard of '78 formed on Sunday, February 5, 1978 and broke up on February 7. [3] The storm was initially known as "Storm Larry" in Connecticut, following the local convention promoted by the Travelers Weather Service on television and radio stations there. [4] Snow fell mostly from Monday morning, February 6 to the evening of Tuesday ...
At 3 am, the blizzard produced peak winds of 55 miles per hour (89 km/h). Temperatures dropped to 0 °F (−18 °C) that morning. Wind chills remained at −40 to −50 °F (−40 to −46 °C) nearly all day. Governor Otis Bowen declared a snow emergency for the entire state the morning of the 26th. Snow drifts of 10 to 20 feet (3.0 to 6.1 m ...
Florida State Fair in 2013. In 1904, the South Florida Fair Association was formed and plans for a new exhibition were proposed. The fair was founded as the South Florida Fair in downtown Tampa and renamed the Mid-Winter Festival a few years later. The name finally changed to the present Florida State Fair in 1915. [7]
A snowstorm of historic proportions walloped the Gulf Coast this week, delivering travel-snarling snow from Texas to the Carolinas and breaking records that have stood for more than a century.
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009. [4] [5]