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The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 [1] [2] was a catastrophic, historic nor'easter that struck New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the New York metropolitan area. The Blizzard of '78 formed on Sunday, February 5, 1978 and broke up on February 7. [ 3 ]
Road and utility crews faced the task on Monday of digging out and restoring some normalcy around Buffalo, New York, where a blizzard considered the area's worst in 45 years buried snow plows ...
On Jan. 30, 1977, 48 years ago today, parts of New York and southern Ontario were in the midst of one of the region's worst blizzards in memory. In Buffalo's case, this storm was a bit unusual in ...
Snow drifts made travel difficult in parts of New York (February 7, 1977) A house almost completely buried in snow in Tonawanda, New York (January 30, 1977). The blizzard of 1977 hit Western New York, Central NY, Northern NY, and Southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1 of that year.
The cooperative observer station at the Bennetts Bridge power plant, near Altmar, New York, established an official all-time New York State monthly snowfall record with 192 inches (16.0 ft; 4.9 m) of snowfall in January 1978. [16] Long-term New York weather stations that established all-time monthly snowfall records in January 1978 include:
Columbus totaled 34.4 inches of snow for the month, the highest snowfall on record for any month in the city. The severe wind piled the snow into 10-foot drifts, nearly burying cars.
A blizzard in February 1983, nicknamed the "Megalopolitan Blizzard", impacted the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and New England regions of the United States. First developing as a low-pressure area on February 9 while a El Niño event ensued, the low then moved eastward across the Gulf of Mexico .
After a motorist who got stranded in the deadly winter storm in upstate New York found a safe place to ride it out, he went to great lengths to lead dozens of