Category: Famous Snowstorms

Above: The Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford, England, as viewed from the southeast circa 1814 (about the same time the continuous daily series of temperature records commenced). Image credit: R. Ackerman, A History of the University of Oxford, 1814, Green Templeton College, Oxford. I recently received an advance copy of a fascinating weather book, Oxford Weather and Climate Since 1767, authored...

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., flanked by Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, as senators returned to work following the snowstorm that crippled the Mid-Atlantic region. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Last weekend’s crippling blizzard was the fourth most...

Storms that killed more than 30 people in the Southeast, piling fresh misery atop a pandemic, spread across the eastern United States on Monday, leaving more than 1 million homes and businesses without power amid floods and mudslides. In Alabama, people seeking shelter from tornadoes huddled in community shelters, protective masks covering their faces to guard against the new coronavirus…....

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...