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The ice storm struck late afternoon on Sunday, March 3, 1991. In total, more than 200,000 homes and businesses in western New York lost power, and it took 14 days to restore electricity for most ...
The 1991 Halloween blizzard was a powerful storm that caused a period of heavy snowfall and ice accumulation, which affected parts of the Upper Midwest of the United States, from October 31 to November 4, 1991. Over the last week of October 1991, a large storm system over the Atlantic Ocean (1991 Perfect Storm) blocked most of the weather ...
North American blizzard of 1999. The Blizzard of 1999 was a strong winter snowstorm which struck the Midwestern United States and portions of central and eastern Canada, hitting hardest in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, southern Ontario, and southern Quebec dumping as much as 60 centimetres (2 ft) of snow in many areas.
e. An ice storm, also known as a glaze event or a silver storm, is a type of winter storm characterized by freezing rain. [1] The U.S. National Weather Service defines an ice storm as a storm which results in the accumulation of at least 0.25-inch (6.4 mm) of ice on exposed surfaces. [2][3] They are generally not violent storms but instead are ...
A four-day ice storm from November 26-29, 1921 battered central Massachusetts. [1] 1940s ... Western and Northern NY Ice Storm of March 3–4, 1991 [5]
The Gene Polisseni Center (colloquially known as the Polisseum or by its initials, the GPC) is an ice arena on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, New York. Ground was broken for the project on October 19, 2012, [ 2 ] and the arena was officially dedicated on September 18, 2014.
A late-season winter storm is bringing precipitation, including wet, heavy snow, and winds to large swaths of New York from Tuesday night through Thursday evening. The storm is expected to drop up ...
The North American blizzard of 1996 was a severe nor'easter that paralyzed the United States East Coast with up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of wind-driven snow from January 6 to January 8, 1996. The City University of New York reported that the storm "dropped 20 inches of snow, had wind gusts of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet high." [2]