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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 ...
Widespread reports of 5" to 12" of snowfall were reported in the western Panhandle on Tuesday evening, which caused troopers to shut down a nearly 70-mile stretch of Interstate 10.
The snowfall brought by a massive winter storm has largely subsided, but cities across the the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions remain blanketed in several inches – or even feet – of snow. For ...
955.5 hPa (28.22 inHg) Blizzard Category 5 February 5–7: 40 inches (100 cm) — Blizzard Category 5 1979 January 13–14: 21 inches (53 cm) — Blizzard Category 4 1991 October 31 – November 3: 37 inches (94 cm) 984 hPa (29.1 inHg) Blizzard Category 5 1992 December 10–12: 48 inches (120 cm) 985 hPa (29.1 inHg) Blizzard
Snowfall totaled 13.4 in (34.0 cm) near Grand Coteau, the highest total recorded from the storm. [16] Elsewhere, snowfall totaled 11.5 in (29.2 cm) near Chalmette , and nearby, New Orleans recorded up to 10 in (25.4 cm), Baton Rouge recorded 7.6 in (19.3 cm) of snowfall, beating the one day snowfall record from February 1895 at 6.5 in (16.5 cm).
Some areas around Kansas City, Missouri saw as much as 12 inches of snow over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service, as of Monday morning, Jan. 6, 2025 around 9 a.m. ET.
The storm ranked as a Category 5 "extreme" event for the Northeast on the Regional Snowfall Index, and a Category 4 event for the Southeast. [4] [5] It is the most recent winter storm to rank as a Category 5 winter storm, and the first to do so since the 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard.
Another reporting site at the New Orleans International Airport, which began recording snow accumulation in 1948, reported their highest previous total snow record as 2.7 inches in 1963.