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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."
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 ...
The Blizzard of 1996 is one of them. ... the middle of a street through blowing snow to a subway station in the Park Slope section of the Brooklyn borough of New York Monday, Jan. 8, 1996. ‘A ...
The Blizzard of 1996 is remembered as one of the most devastating snowstorms to affect the northeastern United States in history. Blizzard of 1996: Remembering the deadly eastern US snowstorm ...
However, as the storm intensified, precipitation near the coast, including the major cities of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, changed to rain. Due to the lack of a strong anticyclone at the surface, winds in association with the system were minimal until after the storm abated. [2]
Syracuse, New York received a record snowfall of 42.3 inches (107 cm) which remained their heaviest storm on record, until the Blizzard of 1993. [8] At Oswego, the storm lasted from January 27 to January 31, 1966, a total of 4½ days. The daily snowfall totals for Southwest Oswego, as measured by Professor Robert Sykes Jr, are as follows.
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The original award was the result of a friendly competition between National Weather Service offices in Upstate New York. Originally conceived after the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, the competition died out after the Rochester and Syracuse offices closed in the mid-1990s. However, the award was revived during the 2002–2003 snowfall season ...