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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.
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").
A massive storm will spread snow and ice along a 1,500-mile-long zone from vast portions of the Plains and Mississippi Valley to many areas of the Appalachians and the Atlantic coast from this ...
The same storm will then bring the chance of a little snow, snow showers or mixed rain and snow showers to the zone from New York City to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., from Wednesday ...
On Saturday, it will move onshore and through the Northwest, dropping mountain snow. By Sunday, the storm will shift towards the central U.s., and a clash between cold and warm air will lead to ...
Storm totals of 4–5 ft (1.2–1.5 m) were expected in Ashtabula and Lake counties in Ohio and 4–6 ft (1.2–1.8 m) in Northern Erie and Southern Erie counties. [15] In preparation of the storm, Interstate 90 shut down over 80 mi (130 km) of highway. Snow also resulted in portions of Interstate 94 and Pennsylvania State Route 5 closing. [16]
A change of just 20-30 miles farther south with the track of the storm could result in much more snow and less ice. "A major freezing rain event is expected to unfold, making for dangerous ice ...
A large and robust storm system, unofficially named Winter Storm Finn by The Weather Channel, brought widespread impacts to much of the contiguous United States early in January 2024. In the northern United States, heavy snow, hail, and gusty winds affected areas from the Great Plains to New England.