Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Most in a 24-hour period: 230 centimetres (90.6 in) of snow on Mount Ibuki, Japan on 14 February 1927. [308] Most in one calendar month: 9.91 meters (390 inches) of snow fell in Tamarack, California, in January 1911, leading to a snow depth in March of 11.46 meters (451 inches) (greatest measured in North America). [309] [310]
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").
Out of the over 500 historical storms assessed since 1900, only 26 storms have been given a category 5 ranking. The highest ranking storm on the list is the Great Blizzard of 1978, which scored a value of 39.07. The most recent storm to receive a category 5 ranking is the January 2016 United States blizzard, which scored a value of 20.14. The ...
We take a look into how the past four winters fared in terms of snowfall and temperatures, plus what to expect for snow this winter.
The least snowy season in the last 20 years was this past winter, according to the Weather Service. The least snowy winter on record was in 1932-33, when only 29.2 inches fell.
The Old Farmer's Almanac and the Farmers' Almanac each predicted last year's winter would buck the historical El Niño trend: The typically warm and dry weather in New Jersey during El Niño ...
February 5–7, 1978 5 Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978: Northern Illinois, northwest Indiana: US January 13–14, 1979 4 1979 Chicago blizzard: Upper Midwest of the United States US October 31–November 3, 1991 5 1991 Halloween blizzard: Eastern United States, Eastern Canada: Canada, US March 12–15, 1993 5 1993 Storm of the Century
$8.22 at amazon.com. While you’ve probably heard of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, you may not know that it’s a publication that was founded by Robert B. Thomas in 1792 in Grafton, Massachusetts ...