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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.
January 5–7, 1821. Extensive snowstorm and blizzard spread from Virginia to New England. [18] Winter of Deep Snow in 1830. December 29, 1830. Blizzard storm dumped 36 inches (91 cm) in Kansas City and 30 inches (76 cm) in Illinois. Areas experienced repeated storms thru mid-February 1831. [20] "The Great Snowstorm of 1831" January 14–16, 1831.
Description of the NESIS scale. The Northeast snowfall impact scale (NESIS) is a scale used to categorize winter storms in the Northeast United States. [1] The scale was developed by meteorologists Paul Kocin and Louis Uccellini, and ranks snowstorms from category 1 ("notable") to category 5 ("extreme").
The uptick in snowstorms could make February the snowiest part of the winter for some areas of the East, especially where there was no lake-effect snow or snow squalls during the opening week of ...
A large number of severe snowstorms, some of which were blizzards, occurred in the United States during 1888 and 1947 as well as the early and mid-1990s. The snowfall of 1947 exceeded 2 ft (61 cm) with drifts and snow piles from plowing that reached 12 ft (3.7 m) and for months as temperatures did not rise high enough to melt the snow.
February 26 – March 6: 10.18 Northeast 1973: February 9–11: 12.52 Southeast 1978: December 28, 1978 – January 3, 1979: 10.08 Upper Midwest 1979: January 13–14: 14.42 Ohio Valley 1979: February 17–20: 15.01 Southeast 1979: November 17–22: 10.81 Northern Rockies and Plains 1980: February 5–10: 10.55 South 1980: February 28 – March ...
Big Bear Mountain Resort, which operates the Snow Summit, Bear Mountain and Snow Valley resorts, reported this week that it's the snowiest February on the mountain since at least 2000.
Several other significant events occurred, including a crippling early-season ice storm in the Southern Plains, a powerful nor'easter in mid-December, another major nor'easter in early February, two major and widespread winter storms in mid-February, and a major blizzard in the Rocky Mountains in mid-March. The winter-related events were ...