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While there is no well-agreed-upon date used to indicate the start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, there are two definitions of winter which may be used. Based on the astronomical definition, winter begins at the winter solstice, which in 2016 occurred on December 21, and ends at the March equinox, which in 2017 occurred on March 20. [4]
It will feel like an extended winter for those living from the northern Plains to the eastern U.S., as cold and snowy conditions stretch into spring 2017.
The January 2016 United States blizzard was a strong and deadly blizzard that produced up to 3 ft (91 cm) of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States during January 22–24, 2016. A weather system, evolving from a shortwave trough that formed in the Pacific Northwest on January 19, consolidated into a defined low ...
A winter storm moves through the Midwest, on March 23.. The winter of 2015–16 was quite unusual and historic in terms of winter weather. First, around the end of November near Black Friday, a crippling ice storm hit the Southern and Central Plains with as much as 1.5 inches (38 mm) of ice accumulation in some areas, knocking out power to over 100,000 residents. [5]
Winter storm warnings were in effect over a huge area from the Sierra Nevada in California east to the Upper Midwest and north as far as Wisconsin. 'Ridiculously heavy': Huge winter storm makes ...
The March 2017 North American blizzard also known as Winter Storm Stella was a major late-season blizzard that affected the Northeastern United States, New England and Canada, dumping up to 3 feet (36 in; 91 cm) of snow in the hardest hit areas, mainly New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and southern Quebec.
The last time it really made waves—the chilly season spanning 2015 to 2016—the contiguous U.S. experienced its warmest winter on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
The North American winter of 2017–18 began in the month of November with the highest snow extent in at least one and a half decades, with snow covering over a quarter of the contiguous United States, [4] 22% more than the same date in 2011, the next-most-recent year with comparable snow coverage at that date.