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The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as the Great Ice Storm of 1998 or the January Ice Storm) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998 that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada, and bordering areas from northern New York to central Maine in the United States.
A blizzard is defined as a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 56 kilometres per hour (35 mph) and lasting for three hours or more. The list states blizzards in various countries since 1972.
The Blizzard of 1999 was a strong winter snowstorm which struck the Midwestern United States and portions of central and eastern Canada, hitting hardest in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, southern Ontario, and southern Quebec dumping as much as 60 centimetres (2 ft) of snow in many areas.
The theater's roof collapsed on January 28, 1922, under the weight of snow from a two-day blizzard that was later dubbed the Knickerbocker storm. The theater was showing Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at the time of the collapse, which killed 98 patrons and injured 133. The disaster was the worst in Washington, D.C., history.
Rochester faced a relentless onslaught of winter weather in March 1999 as a powerful blizzard blanketed the city with nearly 2 feet of snow on March 3 and 4. The storm, accompanied by fierce winds ...
The Blizzard of '93 is the only other winter storm to be rated as a 5 on the scale. The NESIS scale has ranked 65 snowstorms in the Northeast going back to 1960. blizzard8.
The October 1997 North American storm complex was a blizzard and tornado outbreak that affected the Northwest, Rockies, much of the Midwest and Deep South. 84 tornadoes were confirmed as the system moved eastward across the eastern half of the United States, including four that were rated as F3 on the Fujita scale.
Jan. 26 marked the beginning of the Blizzard of 1978 in Ohio, also known as the Storm of the Century. The storm killed 51 people in Ohio and caused at least $100 million in damage. It closed roads ...