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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.
Illinois averages around 50 days of thunderstorm activity a year which put it somewhat above average for number of thunderstorm days for the United States. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 54 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 9.7 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) annually.
Ice Storm of 1994 [6] Considered one of the worst ice storms in US History. January 1998 North American ice storm; ... Mid-December 2007 North American winter storms;
A large tornado outbreak occurred in north europe, with most occurring in central England and Wales. About 107 tornadoes were reported to have touched down in what remains the largest tornado outbreak in European history. 104 tornadoes touched down on november 23 in the United Kingdom during a span of less than 6 hours. [9]
The winter of 1880-81 in the United States, referred to as the Hard Winter, the Long Winter or the Snow Winter, was a period of extreme cold and large snowfalls across the central Great Plains region. The winter is depicted in the 1940 novel The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder and other fictional works.
Long grass bears the weight of snow in this Jan. 8, 2024, photo taken in Emporia. The blizzard of early January closed roads and brought life-threatening cold to the state.
While we're all waiting for fall temperatures to arrive, we know winter is quickly following it. Here's what we can expect in Illinois this year. Winter wonderland: Cold, snowier forecast ...
The winter of 1904 was the coolest year on record worldwide. [19] 1912. January 1912 cold wave – The severe 1912 United States cold wave caused the longest recorded period of weather below 0 °F or −17.8 °C. 1916-1917. Winter of 1916–1917 – the "extended winter" (October to March) of 1916–17 was the coldest on record in the West and ...