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The 2011–12 North American winter by and large saw above normal average temperatures across the continent, with the Contiguous United States encountering its fourth-warmest winter on record, along with an unusually low number of significant winter precipitation events. The primary outlier was Alaska, parts of which experienced their coldest ...
The 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard [3] [4] [5] was a powerful and historic winter storm that affected large swaths of the United States and Canada from January 31 to February 2, 2011, especially on Groundhog Day.
Based on the astronomical definition, winter begins at the winter solstice, which in 2010 occurred late on December 21 (early on December 22 in EST), and ends at the March equinox, which in 2011 occurred on March 20. [2] Based on the meteorological definition, the first day of winter is December 1 and the last day February 28. [3]
The January 25–27, 2011 North American blizzard was a major Mid-Atlantic nor'easter and winter storm, and a New England blizzard that affected portions of the northeastern United States and Canada. This storm came just two weeks after a previous major blizzard had already affected most of these same areas earlier on the same month of January ...
This winter's series of colossal snow storms have piled up millions of dollars in losses for states, municipalities and businesses. But some industries are reaping an avalanche of added revenue ...
Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter. In parka strongholds Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine ...
Part of the 2011–12 North American winter The 2011 Halloween nor'easter , sometimes referred to as " Snowtober, " [ 4 ] " Shocktober, " [ 5 ] " Storm Alfred, " [ 6 ] and " Oktoberblast, " was a large low pressure area that produced unusually early snowfall across the northeastern United States and the Canadian Maritimes .
The NWS said the winter storm could bring "the heaviest snowfall in at least a decade", while AccuWeather forecaster Dan DePodwin said: "This could lead to the coldest January for the US since 2011."