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The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard, School Children's Blizzard, [2] or Children's Blizzard, [3] hit the U.S. Great Plains on January 12, 1888. With an estimated 235 deaths , it is the world's 10th deadliest winter storm on record.
The Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great Blizzard of '88 or the Great White Hurricane (March 11–14, 1888), was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. [ 3 ]
In mid-January 1888, a severe cold wave passed through the northern regions of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains of the United States, then considered to be the northwestern region of the nation. It led to a blizzard for the northern Plains and upper Mississippi valley where many children were trapped in schoolhouses where they froze to death.
Great Plains Blizzards of late 1886. On November 13, 1886, it reportedly began to snow and did not stop for a month in the Great Plains region. [26] Great Plains Blizzard of 1887. January 9–11, 1887. Reported 72-hour blizzard that covered parts of the Great Plains in more than 16 inches (41 cm) of snow.
The winter of 1880-81 in the United States, referred to as the Hard Winter, the Long Winter or the Snow Winter, was a period of extreme cold and large snowfalls across the central Great Plains region. The winter is depicted in the 1940 novel The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder and other fictional works.
This latest storm is expected to have longer-lasting impacts than the last back-to-back storms we've had.
North American blizzard of 2008: Virginia to Maine, Canadian Atlantic provinces (portions of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador) Canada, US December 16–20, 2009 4 December 2009 North American blizzard: Midwestern United States, Great Plains, Southeastern United States, Eastern Seaboard, parts of Ontario Canada, US December 22–24, 2009 5
It’ll be a white Christmas in parts of the Great Plains, and then some. Blizzard warnings were affecting around 720,000 people from northwestern Kansas and Colorado to most of South Dakota, the ...