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The death toll reached 201 by Wednesday, February 2, as the storm eased. [4] New Market, Alabama, recorded a state record low of -27°F on January 30. [1] On Monday, January 31, federal government employees in Washington were excused from reporting to work, [5] and international airports were closed from Boston to Washington, D.C.
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.
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 December 2022 North American winter storm, which scored an RSI value of 11.49. The following list orders the category 4 storms chronologically. [1] [2] [3]
But on Dec. 19, 2009, 15 years ago today, the Northeast was in the midst of a major snowstorm that ended up being the first in a string during a record snow season.
Saturday's snowfall of 11.2 inches recorded Friday and Saturday was beat only by a snowstorm ending on Nov. 26 in 1895 that saw 12 inches of snow fall. After the snow, Midwest gets deep freeze ...
This helped contribute to the 1966-67 winter setting a record seasonal snowfall of 68.4 inches (173.7 cm) for Chicago, breaking the previous record of 66.4 inches (168.7 cm), set in 1951–52. This record would be surpassed just three seasons later, when the 1969-70 winter dropped 77.0 inches (195.6 cm) of snow on the city.
Over a foot of snow had fallen by Thursday afternoon at Lisa Pieniazek's home in Sandia Park, New Mexico, outside of Albuquerque. She and her sons shoveled out their driveway on Nov. 7, 2024.
At 2:21 p.m., Gemini 12, with James A. Lovell and Buzz Aldrin, splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, 600 km (370 mi) east of the Bahamas, less than 3 miles (4.8 km) from the prime recovery ship, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18), bringing an end to the Gemini program to make way for the Apollo crewed program set to land on the Moon.