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Meteorological winter: December 1 – February 28: Astronomical winter: December 21 – March 19: First event started: October 26, 2020: Last event concluded: April 17, 2021: Most notable event; Name: February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm • Duration: February 13–17, 2021 • Lowest pressure: 960 mb (28.35 inHg) • Fatalities ...
The winter storm caused power grids to fail across the U.S., causing blackouts for over 5.2 million homes and businesses, the vast majority of which were in the state of Texas, which became one of the largest blackout events in modern U.S. history, [12] [13] [41] the largest one since the Northeast blackout of 2003. [17]
February 15–20, 2021 North American winter storm – Another significant winter storm that brought additional snowfall and icy conditions across the U.S., soon after a previous winter storm only a few days earlier and affecting many of the same areas, which later moved up the U.S. East Coast becoming a nor'easter; Other storms
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.
The 2021–22 North American winter was not as significant and record-breaking as the previous winter season.Despite this, several notable and significant events still occurred, including two separate record-breaking tornado outbreaks in mid-December, a significant winter storm in the South in mid-January, a powerful blizzard that impacted the Northeast coast at the end of January and a wide ...
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[3] [4] The system is estimated to have caused at least $2 billion (2021 USD) in damages, mainly due to blackouts and structural damage. [5] [6] Excluding the winter storm a few days previous to this storm, the system was the costliest winter storm in the United States since the March 1–3, 2018 nor'easter, and the deadliest since the Blizzard ...
Description of the NESIS scale. The Northeast snowfall impact scale (NESIS) is a scale used to categorize winter storms in the Northeast United States. [1] The scale was developed by meteorologists Paul Kocin and Louis Uccellini, and ranks snowstorms from category 1 ("notable") to category 5 ("extreme").