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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."
The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996 when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit. Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest season on Mount Everest at the time and the third deadliest to date after the 23 fatalities resulting from avalanches caused by the ...
January 6–8, 1996 5 North American blizzard of 1996: Northeastern United States US March 31–April 1, 1997 2 1997 April Fool's Day blizzard: Midwestern United States, Central and Eastern Canada Canada, US January 2–4, 1999 4 North American blizzard of 1999: North Carolina, Virginia: US January 25, 2000 3 January 2000 North American blizzard
On Jan. 6, 1996, 29 years ago today, one of the strongest such snowstorms, known as the "Blizzard of 1996," began its siege in the East. By the time it was over two days later, an impressive swath ...
Nearly half of the 65.5 inches of snow that fell in the 1995-1996 snow season came courtesy of the Blizzard of '96. The 27.6 inches the storm brought on Jan. 7 remains the greatest single-day ...
The Blizzard of 1996 is one of them. It's one of the defining winter storms of the 20th century and is still a record-holder to this date for several cities. A true blockbuster storm, this nor ...
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
Nor’easters have long slammed the East Coast with snow and high winds, causing severe damage. These are the 10 worst ones in recorded history.