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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.
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
Satellite image of the 1993 Storm of the Century, the highest-ranking NESIS storm Snow drifts from the North American blizzard of 1996 A car almost completely buried in snow following the January 2016 United States blizzard Surface weather analysis of the Great Blizzard of 1888 on March 12 Snowfall from the North American blizzard of 2007 in Vermont
A powerful and deadly winter storm that slammed the Plains and Midwest on Wednesday has pushed into the Northeast and New England, where it dumped a wintry mess of snow, sleet, freezing rain and ...
When lake-effect snow hits regions of the Great Lakes during late fall and winter, you start to hear meteorologists use terms like "feet of snow," "whiteout conditions," "blizzard" and "travel ...
A separate storm was forecast to slide southward out of Canada and bring an additional wave of snow to the Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast from Tuesday to Thursday. Wind gusts of over 40 mph ...
1899: With the Great Blizzard of 1899, snowfall in New Orleans reached 3.8 inches (9.7 cm) with strong winds and temperatures below 10 °F (−12 °C). [4] 2000: This snow was nationally televised as the 2000 Independence Bowl was being played on December 31, 2000, in Shreveport. The game was later referred to as "The Snow Bowl", as a snowstorm ...
The storm was also nicknamed the "Storm of the Century" in Quebec. [1] The event included the worst 24-hour snowfall on record in the city of Montreal with 43 centimetres (16.9 inches) of snow falling on March 4, for a total of 47 centimetres (18.5 inches), until the one-day record was broken again on December 27, 2012. [ 3 ]