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21.2 inches (54 cm) of snow fell at Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, making this the third largest total snowfall in Chicago history, [77] after the infamous Chicago Blizzard of 1967, and the Blizzard of 1999. 24 inches (61 cm) fell at the 1 N Abingdon mesonet site in Knox County, in West Central Illinois. This was the largest snowfall in ...
April 16, 2011: Most notable event; Name: 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard • Duration: January 31–February 2, 2011 • Lowest pressure: 996 mb (29.41 inHg) • Fatalities: 36 confirmed • Damage: $1.8 billion (2011 USD) Seasonal statistics; Total storms (Cat. 1+) 10 (record high, tied with 2013–14) Maximum snowfall accumulation
With the exception of the Southern Rockies, Western Mountains saw snowpack totals above 180% of normal. [10] Meanwhile, the 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard caused record snowfall in Chicago and forced the city to shutdown. Because this was a La Niña, it brought California the wettest December on record and the summer of 2011 was California's ...
Starting on Jan. 31 of that year, snow began falling in the Windy City harder than ever before. By the time the storm ended, more than 2 feet of snow had accumulated in some areas of Illinois and ...
Here's how we compiled the list: We pored through 30-year average snowfall statistics of hundreds of locations in the U.S. from 1991 through 2020. We considered only those towns and cities with a ...
The Great Snow of 1717; ... January 25–27, 2011 North American blizzard; 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard; ... Groundhog Day gale of 1976; J.
The most recent record setters and the oldest. Six U.S. states have 24-hour snowfall records that were tied or broken this century. Those states include Connecticut (2013), Oklahoma (2011), Kansas ...
January 25–27, 2011 North American blizzard; 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard; Late December 2012 North American storm complex; February 2013 North American blizzard; January 2015 North American blizzard; January 2016 United States blizzard; April 2018 North American storm complex; December 2022 North American winter storm