History of snow storms in New York City?
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29.0 in is the new record of snow set 1/12/06 (recorded in Central Park)
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Webster, where life is worth living! (I used to live in Brighton...)\n\nI checked http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Webster,%20New%20York\nThe elevation is listed along with the weather report.
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NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration),  NWS (National Weather Service) has historical information on their web site. www.noaa.gov
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All of 2005? That's a lot of snow days, but here's the data from LaGuardia Airport, NYC in which measurable snowfall (defined as more than a trace) was reported.\n\nJanuary 2005 (6 days): 17th, 0.3 inches / 19th, 0.8 inches / 22nd, 10.0 inches / 23rd, 2.3 inches / 26th, 0.2 inches / 30th, 0.3 inches\n\nFebruary 2005 (5 days): 20th, 0.5 inches / 21st, 4.3 inches / 24th, 4.0 inches / 25th, 2.5 inches / 28th, 4.5 inches\n\nMarch 2005 (7 days): 1st, 2.6 inches / 2nd, 0.1 inches / 8th, 2.7 inches / 11th, 0.7 inches / 12th, 1.6 inches / 23rd, 1.1 inches / 24th, 0.2 inches\n\nDecember 2005 (4 days): 4th, 2.3 inches / 6th, 0.8 inches / 9th, 3.8 inches / 31st, 0.5 inches\n\nTotal days with measurable snow in NYC for 2005... 22 days out of 365
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I couldn't find it for Beeton, but Barrie ON had 65cm of snow  in one day January 9, 1978.\n\nIt doesn't match our 95.5cm of snow that fell during the 2004 Blizzard in Halifax NS.  Winds during the height of the storm were generally in the 60 to 80 km/h range with gusts near 120 km/h in exposed areas.
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depends on snow..ya know. Snow hasn't exactly been predictable in recent years. Normally, you'd be safe to plan that date.
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Philadelphia Snow Storm January 23 2005 The day after: the big dig out! Record snow fall in one day .. largest since Feb 2003!
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Lenape and New Netherland: Prehistory:1613-1664\nMain article: History of New York City (prehistory-1664)\nPrehistory in the area began with the geological formation of the peculiar territory of what is today New York City. The area was long inhabited by the Lenape; Lenape in canoes met Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European explorer to enter New York Harbor, in 1524. Giovanni da Verrazzano named this place New Angoulême in the honor of the French king Francis I. European settlement began with the founding of the Dutch fur trading settlement in Lower Manhattan in 1613 later called New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) in the southern tip of Manhattan in 1624. Later in 1626, Peter Minuit established a long tradition of shrewd real estate investing when he purchased Manhattan Island and Staten Island from native people in exchange for trade goods. (Legend, now long disproved, has it that the island was purchased for $24 worth of glass beads.) Minuit's settlement was also a haven for Huguenots seeking religious liberty.\n\nIn 1640, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed governor, and ruled as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. He curtailed the city's religious freedoms and closed all of the city's taverns. The colony was granted self-government in 1652. In 1664, the British conquered the area and renamed it New York. The Dutch regained it in August 1673, renaming the city "New Orange", before ceding New Netherland permanently to the English for what is now Surinam in November 1674.\n\nSee also: New Amsterdam \n\n[edit] British and Revolution: 1665-1783\nMain article: History of New York City (1665-1783)\nThis period began with the establishment of English rule over formerly Dutch New Amsterdam and New Netherland. As the newly renamed City of New York and surrounding areas developed, there was a growing independent feeling among some, but the area was decidedly split in its loyalties. The site of modern Greater New York City was the theatre of the New York Campaign, a series of major battles in the early American Revolutionary War. After early success in that campaign the city became the British political and military center of operations in North America for the remainder of the war. Nathan Hale was hanged in Manhattan after the Battle of Long Island. In addition, the British began to hold the majority of captured American prisoners of war aboard prison ships in Wallabout Bay, across the East River in Brooklyn. More Americans lost their lives from neglect aboard the prison ships than died in every battle of the war, combined. New York was greatly damaged twice by fires of dubious origin during the British occupation that followed the Battle of Brooklyn at the start of the American Revolutionary War. The occupation lasted until November 25, 1783. George Washington returned to the city that same November 25th as the last British forces left the United States. For about a century afterward the day was widely celebrated locally as "Evacuation Day". The Continental Congress met in New York City under the Articles of Confederation.\n\nCity of New York\nPopulation by year [1] \n1790 33,131 \n1800 60,515 \n1810 96,373 \n1820 123,706 \n1830 202,589 \n1840 312,710 \n1850 515,547 \n1860 813,669 \n1870 942,292 \n1880 1,206,299 \n1890 1,515,301 \n1900 3,437,202 \n1910 4,766,883 \n1920 5,620,048 \n1930 6,930,446 \n1940 7,454,995 \n1950 7,891,957 \n1960 7,781,984 \n1970 7,894,862 \n1980 7,071,639 \n1990 7,322,564 \n2000 8,008,278 \nIncluding the "outer\nboroughs" before the\n1898 consolidation \n1790 49,000 \n1800 79,200 \n1830 242,300 \n1850 696,100 \n1880 1,912,000 \n\n[edit] Federal and early American: 1784-1854\nMain article: History of New York City (1784-1854)\nNew York City became the first capital of the newly formed United States on September 13, 1788 under the U.S. Constitutional Convention. On April 30, 1789 the first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated at Federal Ha
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go to weather.com a type in ur city or town.\n                      OR\nlook at a weather chart\n                      OR\nGo outside and measure the snow with a ruler.
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Please see the National Weather Service historical data website below:
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yes, every winter. I also live in Connecticut and we have had \nsnowstorms and squalls, blustering winds. I remember years ago\nwhen the governor who happened to be Ella Grasso  at the time \nclosed the entire state down.   The snow was so high, that when\nI Drove out of my driveway or hit any corners, I had to stand up\nto see if any traffic was coming because you couldn't see over the snowbanks. When you live in this state , your best bet is to\ndrive a 4wheel drive and keep a supply of dirt,rocksalt shovels ,snowblower tuned up, and sleds.
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I used to live in Connecticut on the shore, and there were several hurricanes that came when I was younger. Of course, because the hurricanes had to go over Long Island (pronounce Lon Geyeland!), they were strong but not devastating. In about 1993 there was a huge hurricane that hit Cape Cod (pronounced Kennedyland) and did extraordinary damage, uprooting trees that had been planted 400 years ago and devastating historical sites.\n\nSo yes, there is every chance that an Atlantic hurricane might hit New York at some point.
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Yes it has.  I know that it snowed about 7 or 8 years ago when I was living there.  Greanted, it only lasted about 15 minutes, but people were standing in the streets looking absolutely amazed.
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"When and how did New York City come to be called "The Big Apple'?"\nThis is by far the most frequently asked question submitted to our New York History Hotline.\n\nIn popular folklore, the name is usually traced to early jazz musicians or long-ago sports figures. Often, the explanation of the so-called "origin" of this phrase is accompanied with plausible-sounding historical or biographical details, giving it an unmistakable (but alas, totally spurious) "ring of truth."\n\nBecause this question continues to excite curiosity, and because the real facts are quite well known to serious historians, we provide the following authoritative account, based on our unique archival sources. The story may disappoint some readers -- truth, after all, is often less colorful than fiction. But facts are facts.\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIn the early years of the nineteenth century, refugees from war-torn Europe began arriving in New York in great numbers. Many were remnants of the crumbling French aristocracy, forced to seek refuge abroad from the dread "Monsieur Guillotine." Arriving here without funds or friends, many of these were forced to survive, as one contemporary put it, "by their wits or worse."\nOne of these, arriving in late 1803 or early 1804, was Mlle. Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Évremond. Daughter of a noted courtier, wit, and littérateur, and herself a favorite of Marie Antoinette, Evelyn was by all accounts remarkably attractive: beautiful, vivacious, and well-educated, and she was soon a society favorite. For reasons never disclosed, however, a planned marriage the following year to John Hamilton, son of the late Alexander Hamilton, was called off at the last minute. Soon after, with support from several highly placed admirers, she established a salon -- in fact, it appears to have been an elegantly furnished bordello -- in a substantial house that still stands at 142 Bond Street, then one of the city's most exclusive residential districts.\n\nEvelyn's establishment quickly won, and for several decades maintained, a formidable reputation as the most entertaining and discreet of the city's many "temples of love," a place not only for lovemaking, but also for elegant dinners, high-stakes gambling, and witty conversation. The girls, many of them fresh arrivals from Paris or London, were noted for their beauty and bearing. More than a few of them, apparently, were actually able to secure wealthy husbands from among the establishment's clientele.\n\nWhen New Yorkers insisted on anglicizing her name to "Eve," Evelyn apparently found the biblical reference highly amusing, and for her part would refer to the temptresses in her employ as "my irresistable apples." The young men-about-town soon got into the habit of referring to their amorous adventures as "having a taste of Eve's Apples." This knowing phrase established the speaker as one of the "in" crowd, and at the same time made it clear he had no need to visit one of the coarser establishments that crowded nearby Mercer Street, for instance. The enigmatic reference in Philip Hone's famous diary to "Ida, sweet as apple cider" (October 4, 1838) has been described as an oblique reference to a visit to what had by then become a notorious but cherished civic institution.\n\nThe rest, as they say, is etymological history.\n\nThe sexual connotation of the word "apple" was well known in New York and throughout the country until around World War I. The Gentleman's Directory of New York City, a privately published (1870) guide to the town's "houses of assignation," confidently asserted that "in freshness, sweetness, beauty, and firmness to the touch, New York's apples are superior to any in the New World or indeed the Old." Meanwhile, various &
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The worst blizzards occur in the world's greatest mountain ranges and usually at high altitude.  I don't think there'll be any accurate record of the worst one ever but there's several that have lasted for many days or even weeks with wind speeds often in excess of double that of a hurricane.
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hi the only thing i ocudl find was a website that supplies historical weather data for a fee. SOrry, hope it helps\n\nhttp://www.weatherbank.com/
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Wherever you are in the world, find your local news station's website and search the archives.  I had the same project and I'm in Toronto, so I went to http://www.theweathernetwork.com  This site also covers U.S. cities and some International ones, as far as I know, so just enter in the historical data your missing dates.  Hope that helps! :)