![]() ![]() 9: Winter storm slams Deep South, sets sights on New England 16: With nearly 83 inches, this place is New York’s snowiest "We haven’t had snow on Christmas at all in the last few years. Tewksbury, Mass., resident Dwayne Doherty told the Associated Press he welcomed the snow. Up to a foot of heavy snow is forecast through Wednesday in northern New England, where strong winds with gusts of up to 65 mph, slowing travel and causing power outages, were predicted for Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. ![]() ► Saturday: Winter blast could deliver white Christmas from Great Lakes to Maine ► Saturday: The man who turns ice into instruments The previous record, from December 1989, was 66.9 inches.Įrie averages about 101 inches of snow a year, The Weather Channel noted. Snow continued falling Tuesday, bringing the total since late Christmas Eve to 55 inches in fewer than 36 hours, with up to a foot more on the way Wednesday, forecasters said.Įrie's 92 inches of snow this December make this the snowiest single month on record there. Most flights were operating on time by Tuesday. The snowfall closed the airport as workers pushed to clear runways, Erie News Now reported. The snowfall shattered the city's all-time one-day record of 20 inches, recorded on Nov. The Weather Channel reported that Erie International Airport recorded an eye-popping 34 inches of snow Monday - the previous Christmas record, from 2002, was 8.1 inches. ► Sunday: 837 Surfing Santas bob in chilly waters near Cape Canaveral ► Monday: Snow in Northwest, New England, possible ice in Carolinas by weekend ► Tuesday: JetBlue plane slides off taxiway at Boston's Logan Airport State police said drivers should avoid travel. The snowfall prompted city officials to declare a snow emergency. On Christmas Day, a stationary snow band off Lake Erie dumped nearly 3 feet of snow on Erie, Pa., more than four times the previous Christmas record and 14 inches more than the city's all-time record that has stood for more than 60 years. Snowfalls of 3 to 4 feet - the largest of the season so far - are expected for the next few days east of Lakes Erie and Ontario. According to the local National Weather Service station, that's a first in the city's 146-year record.Watch Video: Cold follows snow into northern U.S.Ī blast of lingering, frigid air across the northern U.S. will keep the snow coming this week from the Pacific Northwest to the Great Lakes, the National Weather Service said Tuesday.Ĭhristmas week will be cold and snowy for much of the northern and higher-elevation areas of the country. It's typical for the city to be coated in unmelted snow for a whole winter, with a massive melt coming in the spring.īut this year Chicago has gone all of January and February without any snow accumulation - and it isn't expected to before the month closes Tuesday night. Chicago is a wildly snowy city, where schools regularly stay open through snowstorms that would shut down other urban centers. This month the city has experienced 18 days with highs above 40 degrees - a very unusual weather pattern in the Midwestern lakefront metropolis - and one six-day period, February 17-22, in which the daily high temperatures were 67 degrees, 70 degrees, 67 degrees, 69 degrees, 65 degrees, and 67 degrees. When March rolls around, 25 degrees Fahrenheit becomes an excuse to break out the lightweight jacket.īut Chicago is having a weird winter. You can go weeks in January and February without spending a comfortable second outdoors. Your hair ices over if you spend too long outdoors, brittle strands snapping off at a touch. And living there in the dead of winter, you learn to climb flights of steps coated in inches-thick sheets of ice that last all winter. The other five, of course, are often bitterly cold, snowy, and windy. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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