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The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978[ 1 ][ 2 ] was a catastrophic, historic nor'easter that struck New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the New York metropolitan area. The Blizzard of '78 formed on Sunday, February 5, 1978 and broke up on February 7. [ 3 ] The storm was initially known as "Storm Larry" in Connecticut, following ...
The February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm was a crippling, large and major winter and ice storm that had widespread impacts across the United States, Northern Mexico, and parts of Canada from February 13 to 17, 2021. The storm, unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Uri by the Weather Channel, [ 14 ][ 15 ] started out in the ...
Part of the 1977–78 North American winter. The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. It is often cited as one of the most severe blizzards in US history. [1]
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"). Only two historical blizzards, the 1993 Storm of the Century and the ...
The January 31 – February 3, 2021 nor'easter, also known as the 2021 Groundhog Day nor'easter,[6]was a powerful, severe, and erratic nor'easterthat impacted much of the Northeastern United Statesand Eastern Canadafrom February 1–3 with heavy snowfall, blizzard conditions, strong gusty winds, storm surge, and coastal flooding.[7] The storm ...
Blizzard — 1922 January 27–29 — — Blizzard Category 5 1940 November 10–12: 27 inches (69 cm) 971 hPa (28.7 inHg) Blizzard — 1944 December 10-13: 36 inches (91 cm) — Storm Category 3 1947 December 25–26: 26.4 inches (67 cm) — Blizzard Category 3 1950 November 24–30: 57 inches (140 cm) 978 hPa (28.9 inHg) Blizzard Category 5 1952
The January 2022 North American blizzard caused widespread and disruptive impacts to the Atlantic coast of North America from northern Delaware to Nova Scotia with as much as 2.5 feet (30 in) of snowfall, blizzard conditions and coastal flooding at the end of January 2022. Forming from the energy of a strong mid- to upper-level trough, the ...
Part of the 2020–21 North American winter and tornado outbreaks of 2021. The March 2021 North American blizzard was a record-breaking blizzard in the Rocky Mountains and a significant snowstorm in the Upper Midwest that occurred in mid-March 2021. It brought Cheyenne, Wyoming their largest two-day snowfall on record, and Denver, Colorado ...