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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 ]
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:
Blizzard of 1978 may refer to: Great Blizzard of 1978 , a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States and Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978
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 ...
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 monster nor'easter continued its slow crawl up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States on Monday night, pounding the region with heavy snow and high winds, snarling travel, canceling flights ...
Blowing snow meant that roads could not be cleared, and hundreds of automobile accidents were caused by the blizzard conditions. [3] Tanks had to be used to remove stranded vehicles on some highways. Insulation by the very heavy northeastern snow led to severe damage to major roads by potholes, as liquid water was able to erode the tar more ...
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