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The North American blizzard of 1996 was a severe nor'easter that paralyzed the United States East Coast with up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of wind-driven snow from January 6 to January 8, 1996. The City University of New York reported that the storm "dropped 20 inches of snow, had wind gusts of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet high."
A truck dumps a load of snow into the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Monday, Jan. 8, 1996. When it comes to notorious winter weather events throughout history, only a select few are remembered ...
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
July 12 – Hurricane Bertha makes landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $270 million in damage to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths. July 17 – Paris and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.
Because at the end of the day, meteorology is an imprecise science -- and sometimes the most dire predictions end up a swing and a miss.
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The storm produced 22 inches (55 cm) of snow in Chicago and was rated by the National Weather Service as the second worst blizzard to hit Chicago in the 20th century, after the Blizzard of 1967. Soon after the snow ended, record low temperatures occurred with values of −20 °F (−29 °C) or lower n parts of Illinois and surrounding states on ...
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