Category: Famous Snowstorms

In Colorado, it – IT – remains the standard for judging other snowstorms. If it happened today, the results would be catastrophic. This December marked the 105th anniversary of Colorado’s worst snowstorm. Over four days in December 1913, Lafayette received 48 inches of snow. Visit any historical museum in Colorado and you’ll see a similar photo. Whether it’s Lafayette, Idaho Springs...

Vermonters gave little thought to the flurries that started to fall over parts of the state at around noon that Sunday in 1888. It was still early March, the 11th to be precise, but spring seemed just around the corner. There was no sign, and certainly no forecast, that the state was about to get walloped by the most serious...

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ULAN BATOR, April 11 (Reuters) – Mongolia’s worst snow storm this winter has killed 11 people and rescue workers are battling severe conditions to search for nine others still missing, civil defence officials said on Wednesday. The storm, which started last Thursday, brought winds of up to 144 kph (90 mph) and about one metre (3.3 feet) of snow, blocking...