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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.
The last time that much snow fell in a single day in Washington was on Jan. 3, 2022, when 6.9 inches fell, and on Jan. 13, 2019, when 8.3 inches piled up. Fresh snow at Freedom Plaza in Washington ...
Winter Storm Blair was the first coast-to-coast snowstorm of 2025, bringing heavy snow to Kansas City, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C. At least 10 deaths were blamed on the storm that shut down ...
The December 2009 North American blizzard was a powerful nor'easter that formed over the Gulf of Mexico in December 2009, and became a major snowstorm that affected the East Coast of the United States and Canadian Atlantic provinces. The snowstorm brought record-breaking December snowfall totals to Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
[1] [2] Winter weather expert Paul Kocin described the blizzard as "kind of a top-10 snowstorm". [3] On January 20–22, the governors of eleven states and the mayor of Washington, D.C., declared a state of emergency in anticipation of significant snowfall and blizzard conditions.
WASHINGTON — A major winter storm that turned deadly in the Midwest over the weekend pummeled the Mid-Atlantic region Monday, prompting travel hazards, shutting down schools, and closing federal ...
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").
According to the National Weather Service's preliminary snowfall totals Monday night, between 6.5 and 7 inches of snow accumulated in Washington, D.C. See photos of the snow below.