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The 2012–13 North American winter was the most active winter weather season by metric of the amount of storms rated on the Regional Snowfall Index (RSI), with a record-breaking 21 storms being rated on the scale.
Part of the 2012–13 North American winter The December 17–22, 2012 North American blizzard [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] was a winter storm that affected the Midwestern and Eastern United States . [ 5 ] Forming on December 17, the winter storm moved across the midwest, forcing schools to close throughout the region. [ 3 ]
A record setting 18 inches (46 cm) of snow fell over the Montreal-Laval, Quebec area. The previous record snowfall occurred 41 years earlier in March 1971 when 42 centimetres (17 in) had fallen. Numerous road accidents were reported throughout the province, including a 15-vehicle pileup near Saint-Cuthbert, Quebec. [86]
7. Terra Alta, West Virginia. Average yearly snowfall: 171.1 inches. Average snowiest month: January (41.1 inches) Record snowiest day: Jan. 23, 2016 (28 inches)
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.
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Snow over North America on October 30. At the time of the storm, trees across much of the affected area had not yet lost their leaves, [6] and as a result, the storm managed to down as many as many as a thousand trees in New York City's Central Park alone, which observed only its fourth snowy October day since records began 135 years earlier.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off into space 35 years ago, and it's still hurtling away from the sun at over 38,000 miles per hour toward the border of our solar system and beyond. It is the ...