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[Some snow in East Coast history] :
March 11-14, 1888
More than 120 winters have come and gone since the so-called “Great White Hurricane,” but this whopper of a storm still lives in infamy. After a stretch of rainy but unseasonably mild weather, temperatures plunged and vicious winds kicked up, blanketing the East Coast in snow and creating drifts up to
50 feet high
GREECE, N.Y. -
The Blizzard of 1966 was a historic storm for Rochester.
Dropping nearly 27 inches of snow from January 30-31, winds whipped through the city and shut it down for nearly a week.wham.com/...
The Blizzard of 1966 swept across most of the United States and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains on January 29, 1966, and brought record low temperatures, high winds and heavy snowfall in its wake. Within days, at least 142 people had been killed — 31 had frozen to death en.wikipedia
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EARLY SNOWSTORM COVERS NORTHEAST
Oct 4 1987
The earliest snowstorm on record struck New York, Connecticut and other parts of New England yesterday, burying some areas in more than a foot of snow that closed roads and airports, knocked out power to more than 300,000 homes and turned russet autumn to wintry solitude.
The storm - an Oct. 4 marvel caused by a collision of cold and soggy air masses - was the earliest in the region since the Army Signal Corps began keeping weather records in 1870.
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MORE NOREASTER:
From a diary by Belinda Ridgewood,
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Links
Greenhouse gases began warming the world’s oceans in the early 1800s, decades earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Extreme winter weather becoming more common as Arctic warms, study finds
Scientists found a strong link between high temperatures near the pole and unusually heavy snowfall and frigid weather farther south. theguardian.com/...
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Climate Change and Extreme Snow in the U.S
Years with heavy seasonal snow and extreme snowstorms continue to occur with great frequency as the climate has changed. The frequency of extreme snowstorms in the eastern two-thirds of the contiguous United States has increased over the past century. Approximately twice as many extreme U.S. snowstorms occurred in the latter half of the 20th century than the first..ncdc.noaa.gov/….
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Rapid Arctic warming and melting ice are increasing the frequency of blizzards in the Northeast, study finds
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