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1899: With the Great Blizzard of 1899, snowfall in New Orleans reached 3.8 inches (9.7 cm) with strong winds and temperatures below 10 °F (−12 °C). [4] 2000: This snow was nationally televised as the 2000 Independence Bowl was being played on December 31, 2000, in Shreveport. The game was later referred to as "The Snow Bowl", as a snowstorm ...
New Orleans shattered its one-day snow total record by noon when Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport recorded 8 inches of snow. The new record breaks the Dec. 31, 1963 record of 2.7 ...
In New Orleans, a winter storm dumped up to 10 inches of snow just weeks before the Super Bowl, creating headaches but also a moment of levity for residents.
By 1895, Florida's abundant citrus groves had extended into North Florida, and the state was producing as much as six million boxes of fruit per year. [ 7 ] [ further explanation needed ] After the Great Freeze, however, production plummeted to just 100,000 boxes and did not break the one-million-box mark again until 1901. [ 8 ]
This current winter storm granted New Orleans, La. its first layer of measurable snowfall for the first time in 15 years. Sledding in Houston and snowball fights in New Orleans: Photos of the rare ...
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A historic and deadly winter storm that stretches over 1,500 miles blanketed the southern U.S. on Tuesday with historic snow totals, including the first-ever Blizzard Warning for the Gulf Coast.
The notion of "white Christmas" was popularized by writings of Charles Dickens.The depiction of snow-covered Christmas season found in The Pickwick Papers (1836), A Christmas Carol (1843), and his short stories was apparently influenced by memories of his childhood, which coincided with the coldest decade in England in more than a century.