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The January 2009 North American ice storm was a major ice storm that impacted parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The storm produced widespread power outages for over 2 million people due to heavy ice accumulation. The hardest-hit areas were in Kentucky with over ...
The storm also broke a 100-year-old record for the largest single December storm, previously 20.2 inches (51 cm) on December 25–26, 1909. [14] The storm was reported by meteorologists to share attributes of the 1983 storm. [15] Streetscape of the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. In more mountainous areas, snowfall was even heavier.
In late January 2009, severe winter storm developed over the Midwest, after having already brought more than an inch of ice to many areas in the United States. The system moved eastward across the Midwest into the Northeast. Many places expected a major ice storm, and areas to the north expected significant snowfall accumulations.
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.
It was the blizzard of December 18-19, 2009. Known locally as Snowpocalypse, it would go down as the largest December snowstorm in the recorded weather history of the nation’s capital!
A four-day ice storm from November 26-29, 1921 battered central Massachusetts. [1] ... January 2009 North American ice storm; 2010s. 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard;
The Big Apple hasn't seen more than 7 inches of snowfall on Christmas Day since 1912, but in 1947 a large storm system dropped 26.4 inches of snow on New York City the day after Christmas, setting ...
On December 16, meteorologists identified a storm forming in the Gulf of Mexico. [4] It produced record rainfall in regions of Texas and had the potential to strengthen as it moved through Georgia and Florida and further north. Weather models accurately predicted that this storm would meet with cold air while retaining its heavy precipitation. [5]