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The 23 inches (58.4 cm) inches of snow that fell on Chicago for 29 hours from the morning of January 26, 1967 is a record for a single storm. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 8 ] [ 10 ] The 19.8 inches (50.3 cm) that fell on January 26–27 was the greatest amount of snow for a 24-hour period, later surpassed by Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011 with 20.0 inches (50 ...
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.
1979 Chicago blizzard: Upper Midwest of the United States US October 31–November 3, 1991 5 1991 Halloween blizzard: Eastern United States, Eastern Canada: Canada, US March 12–15, 1993 5 1993 Storm of the Century: East Coast of the United States: US January 6–8, 1996 5 North American blizzard of 1996: Northeastern United States US March 31 ...
O'Hare Airport totaled 21.6 inches of snow from Jan. 1-3, their second heaviest snowstorm on record behind only the historic Jan. 26-27, 1967 blizzard's 23-inch total.
How much snow did St. Louis get? Snow reports recorded in St. Louis on Tuesday morning show as much as 6 to 8 inches of accumulation within the last 24 hours, according to the NWS.
A vehicle decorated with tropical fish stands in a snow drift in sub-freezing temperatures in Omaha, Neb., Monday, March 4, 2019, following snowfall over the weekend.
The highest ranking storm on the list is the Great Blizzard of 1978, which scored a value of 39.07. The most recent storm to receive a category 5 ranking is the January 2016 United States blizzard, which scored a value of 20.14. The following list orders the storms chronologically. [1] [2] [3]
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