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The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard, School Children's Blizzard, [2] or Children's Blizzard, [3] hit the U.S. Great Plains on January 12, 1888. With an estimated 235 deaths , it is the world's 10th deadliest winter storm on record.
In mid-January 1888, a severe cold wave passed through the northern regions of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains of the United States, then considered to be the northwestern region of the nation. It led to a blizzard for the northern Plains and upper Mississippi valley where many children were trapped in schoolhouses where they froze to death.
The Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great Blizzard of '88 or the Great White Hurricane (March 11–14, 1888), was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. [ 3 ]
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888: Blizzard Northeastern United States: Fatalities estimated 400+ 1898 Portland Gale: Storm New England: 385 1937 Ohio River flood of 1937: Flood Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois: $5,000,000,000 383+ 1917 May–June 1917 tornado outbreak sequence: Tornado outbreak sequence Midwestern United States, Southeastern United ...
Two major blizzards occurred in the year 1888. The Great Blizzard of 1888 which struck parts of the eastern United States and Atlantic Canada from March 11 to March 14;
Blizzard — 1922 January 27–29 — — Blizzard Category 5 1940 November 10–12: 27 inches (69 cm) 971 hPa (28.7 inHg) Blizzard — 1944 December 10-13: 36 inches (91 cm) — Storm Category 3 1947 December 25–26: 26.4 inches (67 cm) — Blizzard Category 3 1950 November 24–30: 57 inches (140 cm) 978 hPa (28.9 inHg) Blizzard Category 5 1952
1888 Blizzard: 400 Great Blizzard of 1888: Northeast Fatalities estimated 1888 Cold wave: Unknown 1888 Northwest Cold Wave: Northwest 1871 Wildfire: 1,500 – 2,500 Peshtigo fire: Wisconsin: Deadliest firestorm in United States history 1862 Flood >5,000 $100 million (1862 USD); $262.2 billion (2020 USD) Great Flood of 1862
1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1888th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 888th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of ...