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The 2024–25 North American winter is the current winter season that is ongoing across the continent of North America. So far, the season has started as one of the coldest in several years, with temperatures below average across the eastern half of the continent during the month of December.
The Met Office has revealed the storm names for the 2024/25 season. The new storms list – first launched in 2015 – for each year generally runs from early September until late August the ...
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.
These names have been coined using schemes such as the days of the year that the storm impacted or noteworthy structures that the storm had damaged and/or destroyed. In the 2010s, winter storm naming became controversial with The Weather Channel coming up with its own list of names for winter storms similar to that of hurricanes.
Out of the nearly 600 historical winter storms assessed since 1900, only 74 storms have been given a category 4 or above ranking, 48 of which were category 4 storms. The highest ranking category 4 winter storm is the March 2–8, 1915 United States blizzard, which had an RSI of 17.67. The most recent storm to receive a category 4 ranking is the ...
The first winter storm, named Winter Storm Finn by The Weather Channel, hit the Midwest, Southeast, and East Coast on January 8–10, 2024. [23] Interstate 70 was closed from Watkins, Colorado to the Kansas state line due to the storm. [24] Winds in Colorado gusted up to 80 mph (130 km/h), while winds in New Mexico reached 76 mph (122 km/h).
Winter storm weather is forecast to bring snow to different parts of the country in the days around Thanksgiving 2024, potentially interrupting travel.
Great Storm of 1975: Northeastern United States, Southeastern Canada: Canada, US February 2, 1976 2 Groundhog Day gale of 1976: Western New York, Southern Ontario: Canada, US January 28–February 1, 1977 - Blizzard of 1977: Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region and Southern Ontario: Canada, US January 25–27, 1978 5 Great Blizzard of 1978