KENILWORTH — Following a snowfall on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1947, Kenilworth residents were enjoying a rare white Christmas. No one, not even the weather man., anticipated just how very white it would turn ...
The snow may still be falling, but at least Winter Storm Juno has been downgraded here in the Tristate Area (so much for that whole Storm of the Century thing, right?). To celebrate, let's take a look ...
For generations of Milwaukeeans, it was just "the blizzard." A couple of inches of light, fluffy snow fell on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1947. The snow stopped after a couple of hours. Then it ...
This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. Program for the 1947-48 ...
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 26. There are five days left in the year. On this date in 1947, 60 years ago, a blizzard dropped some 26 inches of snow on Staten Island.It was the most significant snowfall ...
Two veterans of the blizzard of ‘88 are not scoffing at the current snowstorm. Frank E. Peirson, secretary of the Masonic Association, and Joseph F. Messer, 83-year-old retired fireman of 29 Alcove St ...
The forecasters predicted a dusting in New Jersey. "I never saw such terrible, terrible forecasting in all my life," said Jim Witt, a New York-based meteorologist. "The day before, they said there ...
The snowstorm that dumped 24 inches of snow on Queens early last week is now history, even if tall drifts and even taller piles of snow are still with us. But the ferocity of last week’s blizzard and ...
The Great Blizzard of 1947 was a record-breaking snowfall event that began on Christmas, without prediction, and brought the northeastern United States to a standstill. The snowstorm was described as ...