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The North American blizzard of 1996 was a severe nor'easter that paralyzed the United States East Coast with up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of wind-driven snow from January 6 to January 8, 1996. The City University of New York reported that the storm "dropped 20 inches of snow, had wind gusts of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet high."
America's snowiest cities are a mix of mountain towns and those near the world's largest group of freshwater lakes. ... Hurley's 295.4 inches of snow from fall 1996 through spring 1997 was a state ...
Lake Helen at Mount Lassen [10] and Kalmia Lake in the Trinity Alps are estimated to receive 600-700 inches of snow per year. Tamarack in Calaveras County holds the record for the deepest snowfall on earth (884 inches (2,250 cm)). 5. Alaska: Valdez: 314.1 inches (798 cm) 95 feet (29 m)
However since then, the city has seen two seasonal totals that have eclipsed the 1995-96 season: In 2009-2010, 78.7 inches of snow piled up and in 2013-2014, the city tallied 68 inches of snow.
Winter storms can produce both ice and snow, but are usually more notable in one of these two categories. The "Maximum accumulation" sections reflect the more notable category which is represented in inches of snow unless otherwise stated. Only category 1 and higher storms as defined by their regional snowfall index are included here.
On Jan. 6, 1996, 29 years ago today, one of the strongest such snowstorms, known as the "Blizzard of 1996," began its siege in the East. ... Baltimore picked up 22.5 inches of snow and New York ...
Philadelphia receives a record 30 inches of snowfall and New York City's public schools close for the first time in 18 years. The federal government in Washington, D.C. is closed for several days, extending the time federal employees are out of the office from the 1996 federal government shutdown.
Some might remember the Blizzard of 1996, when more than two feet of snow fell, closing businesses for a week and costing the City of York $30,000 a ... (for Lebanon County) Jan. 22-23, 2016: 30.2 ...