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The February 5–6, 2010 North American blizzard, commonly referred to as Snowmageddon, [1] was a blizzard that had major and widespread impact in the Northeastern United States. The storm's center tracked from Baja California Sur on February 2, 2010, to the east coast on February 6, 2010, before heading east out into the Atlantic.
Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, and Snowzilla are portmanteaus of the word "snow" with "Armageddon", "Apocalypse", and "Godzilla" respectively. Snowmageddon and Snowpocalypse were used in the popular press in Canada during January 2009, [ 1 ] and was also used in January 2010 by The Guardian reporter Charlie Brooker to characterise the ...
This resulted in a cutoff low (not influenced by the predominant jet stream currents), which took a highly unusual track, retrograding west into New York state before looping back out to sea. [14] Total snowfall accumulations were as high as 36 inches (91 cm) in areas further inland, while New York City picked up 20.9 inches of snow.
Northeast snowstorms haven't been all that prolific lately, but that certainly wasn't the case in 2010. On Feb. 5, 2010, 15 years ago, the first of back-to-back snowstorms buried the mid-Atlantic ...
The February 9–10, 2010 North American blizzard was a winter and severe weather event that afflicted the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States between February 9–11, 2010, affecting some of the same regions that had experienced a historic Nor'easter just three days earlier.
The State of Ohio [91] Ohio Union 1951 2007 Student Union The State of Ohio Replaced by a new building of the same name Rickly House 1856 1949 University President's Residence The Rickly Family, the former occupants of the house before it was purchased by Ohio State [92] Vivian Hall 1951 2011 Laboratory Building
List of highest snowfall accumulations by state during the 2009 blizzard (Snowpocalypse) State Location Amount Connecticut Clinton, East Haddam, Norwich, Putnam: 20.0 in (51 cm) Washington, D.C. American University, The Mall: 16.0 in (41 cm) Delaware Dover: 18.0 in (46 cm) Kentucky Harlan: 7.0 in (18 cm) Maine Hampstead: 5.4 in (14 cm) Maryland
[63] [64] Northwestern University, Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago canceled classes Wednesday for the first time in over a decade due to the weather. [65] [66] Over 39,000 state workers were ordered not to come into work due to the weather; this was the largest figure since a blizzard in 1979. [67]