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On Jan. 6, 1996, 29 years ago today, one of the strongest such snowstorms, known as the "Blizzard of 1996," began its siege in the East. ... Baltimore picked up 22.5 inches of snow and New York ...
The North American blizzard of 1996 was a severe nor'easter that paralyzed the United States East Coast with up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of wind-driven snow from January 6 to January 8, 1996. The City University of New York reported that the storm "dropped 20 inches of snow, had wind gusts of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet high."
The Blizzard of 1996 is one of them. ... the middle of a street through blowing snow to a subway station in the Park Slope section of the Brooklyn borough of New York Monday, Jan. 8, 1996 ...
The Blizzard of 1996 is remembered as one of the most devastating snowstorms to affect the northeastern United States in history. Blizzard of 1996: Remembering the deadly eastern US snowstorm ...
July 12 – Hurricane Bertha makes landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $270 million in damage to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths. July 17 – Paris and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.
All three of the airports in the New York City area (LaGuardia Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport) were closed during the record blizzard, for the first time since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Like the Blizzard of 1996, this winter storm does not meet the criteria to be called a blizzard ...
Syracuse, New York received a record snowfall of 42.3 inches (107 cm) which remained their heaviest storm on record, until the Blizzard of 1993. [8] At Oswego, the storm lasted from January 27 to January 31, 1966, a total of 4½ days. The daily snowfall totals for Southwest Oswego, as measured by Professor Robert Sykes Jr, are as follows.
A truck dumps a huge load of snow into the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia on Jan. 8, 1996. (AP Photo/Nanine Hartzenbusch) When it comes to notorious winter weather events throughout history ...