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Northeastern United States, Atlantic Canada: Canada, US February 17–20, 2004 - White Juan: Ohio Valley, Ontario: Canada, US December 21–24, 2004 4 December 21–24, 2004 North American winter storm: Upper Midwest, Great Lakes region, Northeastern United States, British Isles, Scandinavian Peninsula: Canada, US, UK January 20–23, 2005 4
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.
Midwestern United States: 2021 Winter storm: 29 $2 billion February 15–20, 2021 North American winter storm: Western United States, Southern Plains, Deep South, Northeastern United States, Atlantic Canada, British Isles, Iceland, Faroe Islands: 2021 Winter storm: 276 ≥ $196.5 billion [9] [8] February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm
Out of the nearly 600 historical winter storms assessed since 1900, only 74 storms have been given a category 4 or above ranking, 48 of which were category 4 storms. The highest ranking category 4 winter storm is the March 2–8, 1915 United States blizzard, which had an RSI of 17.67. The most recent storm to receive a category 4 ranking is the ...
February 13–17 winter storm: February 13 – 17 Category 3 8.048 N/A 960 26 (66) 0.85 (22) Western United States, Southern United States, Eastern United States, Northern Mexico, Eastern Canada, British Isles, Iceland, Southern Greenland: ≥ $25.5 billion 290 February 15–20 winter storm: February 15 – 20 Category 3 7.497 N/A 948 24 (61)
A winter storm is an event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental and subarctic climates , these storms are not necessarily restricted to the winter season, but may occur in the late autumn and early spring as ...
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 following list orders the storms chronologically. [1] [2] [3]
Satellite image of the 1993 Storm of the Century, the highest-ranking NESIS storm Snow drifts from the North American blizzard of 1996 A car almost completely buried in snow following the January 2016 United States blizzard Surface weather analysis of the Great Blizzard of 1888 on March 12 Snowfall from the North American blizzard of 2007 in Vermont