People helping a crashed car some days before the height of 1972 Iran blizzard
Type
Extratropical cyclone Winter storm Blizzard
Formed
February 3, 1972
Dissipated
February 9, 1972
Maximum snowfall or ice accretion
8 m (26 ft)
Fatalities
≥ 4,000 fatalities (Deadliest winter storm on record[1])
Damage
≥ $20 million
The Iran blizzard of February 1972 was the deadliest blizzard in history, as recorded by the Guinness Book of Records.[1][2] A week-long period of low temperatures and severe winter storms, lasting 3–9 February 1972, resulted in the deaths of over 4,000 people.[3] Storms dumped more than 7.9 metres (25 ft 11 in) of snow across rural areas in northwestern, central and southern Iran.[4] The blizzard came after four years of drought.[5]
Southern Iran received as much as 7.9 metres (26 ft) of snow, burying at least 4,000 individuals. According to contemporary reports by the newspaper Ettela'at, the city of Ardakan and outlying villages were hardest hit, with no survivors in Kakkan or Kumar. In the northwest, near the border with Turkey, the village of Shaklabad and its 100 inhabitants were buried. According to some experts, about 200 villages were buried under the snow and completely erased from the map.[6][7]
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^1972 Blizzard: Iran's and World's Harshest blizzard in the history | Sky and Weather Network (in Persian)
^Glantz, Mickey (16 May 2003). Climate Affairs. Island Press. ISBN 978-1-55963-919-4.
^"Missing Put at 6,000 in Iranian Blizzard". The New York Times. 11 February 1972. p. 4.
^"Thousands Missing in Iran Snow". Oakland Tribune. 10 February 1972. p. 1.
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