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February 1899 was the second-coldest February (behind only 1936). The average temperature was 6.3 °F (−14.3 °C), which was 14.5 °F (8.1 °C) colder than the 1895–2017 average of 20.8 °F (−6.2 °C) and 7.0 °F (3.9 °C) warmer than February 1936. [39] December 1898 through February 1899 was the eighth-coldest meteorological winter.
The wrath of the blizzard pummeled the mid-Atlantic between Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 1899, with 20 to 30 inches of snow accumulating from central Virginia to western Connecticut, including 20.5 inches ...
Feb. 11—"Worst Blizzard on Record" was the headline of the Wilkes-Barre Record on Feb. 14, 1899. The entire Wyoming Valley, including the mountainous territories of Bear Creek, Mountain Top and ...
Robert MacArthur Crawford (July 27, 1899 – March 12, 1961) is known for writing The U.S. Air Force song. He was born in Dawson City , Yukon , and spent his childhood in Fairbanks, Alaska . [ 1 ] He graduated high school in 1915 at Chehalis High School [ 2 ] in Chehalis, Washington.
Chuck Suchy is a folk musician, songwriter, and working farmer from Mandan, North Dakota.Among his albums are Much to Share (1986) and Dancing Dakota (1989) on Flying Fish Records, Dakota Breezes (1993), Same Road Home (1996), Different Line of Time (1999), Evening in Paris (2004), and Unraveling Heart (2008).
Piles of snow were stacked higher than horses in New York City following the Great Blizzard of 1899. (Library of Congress) Nor'easters, bomb cyclones and blizzards are some of the words used to ...
The Washington Post, out of Washington, D.C., ran an online poll asking for reader feedback prior to the February 5–6, 2010 North American blizzard on February 4, 2010, [3] and several blogs, including the Washington Post ' s own blog, followed that up by using either "Snowmageddon" or "Snowpocalypse" before, during, and after the storm hit. [4]
The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard, School Children's Blizzard, [2] or Children's Blizzard, [3] hit the U.S. Great Plains on January 12, 1888. With an estimated 235 deaths , it is the world's 10th deadliest winter storm on record.