Where was the worst Blizzard In U.S. History?
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you have to qualify this question. do you mean most deaths? most feet of snow fallen, most accululated, and very important, most accululation the fastest, which is a killer in a blizzard. All of these stats belong to different storms, so it could be any,,,,
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I had to drive on Route 80 in February in an ice storm and it scared me.  There were a lot of cars, trucks, vans, and semis off the road, some upside down, and I was terrified I would end up like them.  But I didn't.  I was fine.
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Tornado Alley might have the MOST frequency of tornadoes, but the worst type of tornadoes , I believe,are "waterspouts": tornadoes that form on oceans (yikes! where to hide from that one?)  They occur fairly around warm waters (including Florida).\n\nCheck these chilling pictures out\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Trombe.jpg\nhttp://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/big/wea00312.jpg
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Snow did fall in Homestead, Fla., only about 25 miles north of the bridge from the Florida mainland to the Keys, on Jan. 19, 1977. This was during one of the worst of the mid-1970s U.S. cold waves and snow fell that day in several parts of Dade County, Fla., but not at the NWS office at the Miami Airport, which is why the official records do not show the snow.\n\nRead about "Miami's first snowfall" here:\nhttp://www.islandnet.com/%7Esee/weather/almanac/arc2002/alm02jan.htm\n\nJacksonville, in northeastern Florida, actually had a white Christmas in 1989. Here is an article about it:\nhttp://www.news4jax.com/weather/2683348/detail.html
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-50 F\n\nI was stuck up on Laramie Pass, off of I-80 in Wyoming 2 days before Christmas in '99, I was on my way home on Christmas break. Laramie Pass, btw, is the highest interstate pass in the US w/an elevation of close to 11,000.\n\nIt had been storming on & off & eventually the road became iced over. There were cars & semi's over turned & crashed into one another all along the highway leading up to the pass. Anyway, that night, they closed down the interstate around 5 pm. I was stuck up there until 5 am the next morning, 12 hrs of freezing cold.\n\nThis is what -50 feels like... You have your car running w/the heater at full blast, you have a sleeping bag around your feet & a 2 quilts around your body, w/your coat on & clothes on & you STILL CAN'T keep warm or stop shaking. You are shaking to the point you want to throw up.
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An outbreak of strong convection occurred on 29 March 1998 across southern Minnesota and central Wisconsin. These storms produced several tornadoes, most notably at Lismore/Wilmont/Leota F2) in southwestern Minnesota and at Comfrey/Hanska/Courtland (F3/F4, 1 fatality) and at Nicollet/St. Peter/Le Center (F3, 1 fatality) in southcentral Minnesota. This marked one of only seven occurrences of tornadoes in Minnesota during the month of March. A tornado was also reported near Maxville, Wisconsin. In addition, large hail was reported with these particular storms (hailstone diameters up to 4.5 inches in Minnesota and 1.75 inches in Wisconsin). \n\nSynoptic conditions: A surface low was deepening in extreme southeastern South Dakota, with a warm front extending eastward across southern Minnesota into central Wisconsin. The air mass within the warm sector to the south of this front was very unstable, as surface temperatures reached around 80 F along with dewpoints in the low 60's F. The warm front served as the low-level focus for convective activity. \n\nStrong middle and upper-level winds were also advancing over the region -- wind profiler data at Wood Lake, MN and Blue River, WI showed 50 knot winds as low as 2.5 - 3.0 km, as well as strong low to mid-level wind shear (veering and increasing speed with height) that aided in the development of supercell convection. \n\nNear St. Peter, Minnesota, a 6-year-old boy was killed when the van he was in was thrown off the road and he was tossed 150 yards. In St. Peter, bricks littered the streets, storefronts were smashed, and the remains of one store was spread throughout a 6 block area. Debris from there was dropped onto St. Paul, 55 miles away. Many buildings at Gustavus Adolphus College were damaged. At a Le Center trailer park, the manager, Bob Bock, ran from trailer to trailer, alerting the residents, and directing them to the trailer park's concrete storm shelter. About half the trailers were destroyed, but none of the residents were seriously injured. At least 36 other people were injured during a rash of 7 tornadoes that swept through southern Minnesota. The towns of St. Peter, Le Center, and Comfrey were hardest hit.
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Best state must have an ocean, for sure. I would say Texas as one w/ Cali as a close second. The worst? Gotta be North Dakota. That place is miserable with snowdrifts bigger than you can imagine. Idaho would run a close second because, c'mon, what is going on in idaho?
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A blizzard is a heavy snow storm with high winds and can hit anywhere that it snows. A nor'easter is a storm that starts in Canada, swoops down into America and then follows the eastcoast "Northeast" up into New England with heavy snow fall.
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Worst is Nebraska.  I could write a book on that one on why it is the worst.  Best is Oklahoma or Arkansas.
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if it's just the continental US, believe it is international falls, MN (coldest) and death valley, CA (warmest).  If include Alaska, coldest should be fairbanks
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Terrible.  Bitterly cold.  Overrun with disease.\n\nMany, many deaths due to starvation, freezing, and disease.
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I've seen several funnel clouds, those are an awesome and chilling sight. By the time you notice them they're pretty well-formed. Almost all of them last a few seconds and either dissipate or roll back up into the sky. We were actually involved with a real tornado three years ago, It was an F1-F2 that stayed on the ground for almost thirty miles. I heard  the siren go off in the next town, we got the kids and the dogs in the basement. My wife and I kept going outside and looking around for something more threatening than the usual oncoming thunderstorm. After about 10 minutes we heard the freight train coming and headed downstairs. The house shook enough that the dust came down from the rafters. It lasted less than thirty seconds and then a whole lot of rain came down. The tornado missed us by 200 yards. The telephone pole in the corner of my back yard was okay, the one next to it was torn out of the ground and thrown across the road. The one next to that was torn out and thrown a hundred yards. No one in my rural neighborhood was hurt, but they did wind up bulldozing and rebuilding three homes. The home across the street had the front porch torn off and thrown over the roof, exposing a large hole in the roof deck that let in enough rain to collapse most of the ceilings. The path of damage was maybe a half-mile wide. Homes outside that range did not see much damage. I was surprised that the wind was toward the tornado, not away from it. The funnel was enough of a low-pressure point to draw the air towards it at a hundred-and-some miles an hour. The broken trees have repaired themselves, the homes and farms have been rebuilt, The only lasting reminder is a lot of sheets of tin barn roof still wrapped around treetops. We're in Northern Ohio. Moderate tornado damage is at least a yearly event in the area. Huge destructive disastrous storms like they get in the plains are a rarity.
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NY was the worst...  Va Beach and Boston were great.  I live in GA and us Southerners are pretty hospitable.... but I might be biased...
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alberta, canada. tis gonna be a friggin cold winter
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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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hunter mountain.  catskills, new york. better off in vermont though - mt. snow or killington
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Last year.  If you don't care *where* it snowed then it definitely snowed 3 or 4 inches somewhere last year on St. Patrick's day.