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The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978.
One of the major problems with the Blizzard of 1978 was the lack of foreknowledge about the storm's severity. Weather forecasting in New England is difficult, and meteorologists had developed a reputation as being inaccurate. Forecasting techniques and technology had improved dramatically in the 1970s, but the public was still quite skeptical.
The blizzard of 1978 left 14 inches of snow on the ground in Lafayette by the time the storm ended.
Great Blizzard of 1978, a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States and Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978; Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978, a catastrophic, historic nor'easter that struck New England, New Jersey, and the New ...
Because at the end of the day, meteorology is an imprecise science -- and sometimes the most dire predictions end up a swing and a miss.
Winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories remain in effect from western Pennsylvania and West Virginia to far western Maryland, where snow totals of at least 6 inches are expected.
Two books have been written about it, The Blizzard by Robert Bahr and White Death – The Blizzard of '77, which is a compilation by Erno Rossi of accounts of the blizzard from both southern Ontario and western New York (Rossi 1999; note the original edition of the book was entitled White Death – Blizzard of '77 and published in 1978).
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