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LEE CANYON, Nev. – Winter isn’t over yet as a snowy scene played out Monday about 40 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. A powerful cross-country storm chugging into the central U.S. led to ...
The difference between a blizzard and a snowstorm is the strength of the wind, not the amount of snow. To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to 56 km/h (35 mph) with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 m or 0.25 mi or less and must last for a prolonged ...
A video shows what near-blizzard conditions look like in southern Louisiana. Palm trees can be seen blowing in heavy winds surrounded by snowfall at the New Orleans Lakefront. (9:20 a.m. ET) 'It ...
HOU picked up 3 inches of snow Tuesday, making it the most snow in one day since Jan. 30, 1949, when 3.1 inches fell and the third-snowiest day on record at the airport. IAH received 1.2 inches.
The 2025 Gulf Coast blizzard was an unusually strong winter storm and blizzard impacting much of the Gulf Coast of the United States between January 20 and January 22, 2025. It brought snowfall to regions of the Gulf Coast that rarely receive wintry precipitation.
Blizzard warnings were issued across the western and central parts of Iowa, with rain quickly transitioning to snow. Blizzard conditions were acheived over much of the warned area, with widespread wind gusts of 55–65 mph (89–105 km/h) leading to visibilities of less than half a mile in most locations, with a peak gust of 68 mph (109 km/h ...
Great Blizzard of 1978: New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York metropolitan area: US February 5–7, 1978 5 Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978: Northern Illinois, northwest Indiana: US January 13–14, 1979 4 1979 Chicago blizzard: Upper Midwest of the United States US October 31–November 3, 1991 5 1991 Halloween blizzard
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.