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The January 2009 North American ice storm was a major ice storm that impacted parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The storm produced widespread power outages for over 2 million people due to heavy ice accumulation. The hardest-hit areas were in Kentucky with over ...
A four-day ice storm from November 26-29, 1921 battered central Massachusetts. [1] ... January 2009 North American ice storm; 2010s. 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard;
Sikeston and the surrounding area were hit by the January 2009 Central Plains and Midwest ice storm. This storm knocked out electrical service to large parts of the city for several days and damaged a large percentage of the trees, making this event the worst natural disaster to hit the city since at least the 1986 tornado.
It described the Jan. 26, 2009 storm, stating, “Life abruptly changed as a growing layer of ice dragged trees and power lines to the ground. Lights and heat went out for days and even weeks.”
The storm began to develop on December 22 before intensifying to produce extreme winds and precipitation by the morning of December 24. [3] The storm's rapid development made it difficult for forecasters to predict. [3] The blizzard was reported to have claimed at least 21 lives, and disrupted air travel during the Christmas travel season. [4]
The storm also broke a 100-year-old record for the largest single December storm, previously 20.2 inches (51 cm) on December 25–26, 1909. [14] The storm was reported by meteorologists to share attributes of the 1983 storm. [15] Streetscape of the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. In more mountainous areas, snowfall was even heavier.
A glaze of ice encased exposed surfaces and shut down travel from Oklahoma to Illinois on Monday morning. However, even Dangerous ice, snow to lead warmup in Midwest and Northeast
A storm moving through the southern Plains and Mississippi Valley early next week may produce a swath of travel-disrupting snow and ice, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. The potential snow ...