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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 second has to do with meteorological winter which varies with latitude for a start date. [1] Winter is often defined by meteorologists to be the three calendar months with the lowest average temperatures. Since both definitions span the start of the calendar year, it is possible to have a winter storm occur two different years.
Here's how we compiled the list: We pored through 30-year average snowfall statistics of hundreds of locations in the U.S. from 1991 through 2020. We considered only those towns and cities with a ...
The heaviest calendar day snowfall was 18.6 in (47.2 cm), again at O'Hare, on January 2, 1999. [16] Daily snow depth has amassed as high as 29 in (74 cm) on January 14, 1979; as of 2019, January 1979 alone holds the first 8 of the top 10 daily snow-depth measurements. [16]
That's almost 5 times the average annual snow in Chicago. In the Lower 48, Truckee, California, in the Sierra Nevada, is one of the snowiest. That small town picks up about 16 feet of snow each year.
The most snow Chicago has ever received in one season was 89.7 inches during 1978-79. The least — 9.8 inches — occurred in 1920-21. Here’s a look back at how our current snowfall compares ...
The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972. [2]
The first major lake effect snow pounded portions of the Northeast and Midwest this past weekend, with more in the forecast in the coming days. On Saturday, parts of the New York thruway had been ...