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The two most populous provinces in Canada, Ontario and Quebec, were most severely impacted by the natural catastrophe, with the worst power outage in Quebec since the 1998 ice storm brought on by toppled power lines and blocked roadways. Thousands of branches and trees snapped under the weight of the ice storm and the force of the winds. [6]
Northeastern United States, Southeastern Canada: Canada, US February 2, 1976 2 Groundhog Day gale of 1976: Western New York, Southern Ontario: Canada, US January 28–February 1, 1977 - Blizzard of 1977: Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region and Southern Ontario: Canada, US January 25–27, 1978 5 Great Blizzard of 1978
The Watertown region received 8 to 12 in (20 to 30 cm) of snow with the cold front, but unfrozen Lake Ontario (in contrast to frozen Lake Erie), along with atmospheric conditions favorable for lake effect snow, allowed snow bands to form that resulted in storm totals of 66 in (168 cm) in Watertown, 72.5 in (184.2 cm) in Mansville, 93 in (236 cm ...
Great Ice Storm of 1998: Meteorological storm Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick Eastern Canada 28 Massive ice storm hits Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick 1998 September 2: Swissair Flight 111: Aircrash Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia: Atlantic Canada 229 1999 September 3: 87-vehicle pileup on Highway 401 near Windsor, Ontario Traffic accident ...
Even as the Canadian storm that triggered intense lake-effect snow and heavy snow squalls and brought the first flakes of the season to much of the Interstate 95 Northeast is moving away, shifting ...
March 14—United States—Nearly 300,000 people [287] in the San Francisco Bay Area, California were without power after strong wind storms. [288] April 5—Canada—over 1.1 million customers were left without power due to a major ice storm that covered Montreal in ice and left hundreds of thousands without power well into the weekend.
The October 2006 Buffalo storm was an unusual early-season lake effect snow storm that hit the Buffalo, New York, area and other surrounding areas of the United States and Canada, from the afternoon of Thursday, October 12 through the morning of Friday, October 13, 2006. [2]
Northwest of Pancake Bay, Ontario in Lake Superior: 29 1941 Brazeau Collieries Mine explosion Explosion Rocky Mountain House, Alberta 28 1912 Regina Cyclone: Tornado: Regina, Saskatchewan 28 1965 LaSalle Heights disaster: Explosion LaSalle, Quebec 28 (Canadian fatalities only) 1998 North American ice storm of 1998: Ice storm: Ontario and Quebec ...