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As a result, for the ninth time in the city's history, all public schools were closed. All area airports were also closed. Airports re-opened later in the afternoon of January 27. All non-emergency city government offices were closed as well. [1] After the additional snowfall, this made January 2011 the snowiest January on record for New York City.
Also, all Philadelphia public and parochial schools closed February 10, 11, and 12th due to the snow and dig out. In addition, many utility companies suffered their worst power outages of all time. For example, PECO Energy suffered its 9th highest power outage since the ice storm of January 1994. About 225,000 homes and businesses lost power.
A snow day in the United States and Canada is a day that school classes are cancelled or delayed by snow, heavy ice, or extremely low temperatures. Similar measures occur in response to flooding , tornado watches , and severe weather (storms, hurricanes , dense fog, heavy snow, etc.).
Back-to-back snowstorms in the Northeast left many locations piled high with feet of snow. However, for densely populated places like New York City, extreme snowfall like what's been coming down ...
New York City experienced its 5th largest snowstorm on record, 4th at the time. [21] This, combined with a winter storm earlier in the month resulted in February 2010 becoming the snowiest month on record in New York City. [22] Several private schools and institutions cancelled classes on Friday, February 26, due to the storm.
The Northeast is digging out from the biggest snowstorm of the winter after heavy snow buried areas from West Virginia through Massachusetts, prompting school closures and travel chaos Tuesday. On ...
the National Weather Service (NWS) office in New York City said on Tuesday morning, when an inch of snow accumulated for the first time in 700 days, dating back to Feb. 13, 2022.
The Midway total was the largest amount of snow received in the month of February for one midnight-to-midnight day since records began to be kept in 1928. [10] In central Illinois, 12 to 16 inches (300 to 410 mm) of snowfall and blizzard conditions canceled classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for two days, the first time ...