Satellite image of the storm system on January 7, 1996
Type
Winter storm
Blizzard
Formed
January 6, 1996
Dissipated
January 10, 1996
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg) at 7:00 am EST on January 8th[1]
Maximum snowfall or ice accretion
48 inches (120 cm), Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Fatalities
154 fatalities total (another 33 took place during flooding after the storm)
Damage
c. US$3 billion
Areas affected
Continental United States; especially the Northeastern United States
Snowbound jeep, Baltimore, Maryland
The North American blizzard of 1996 was a severe nor'easter that paralyzed the United States East Coast with up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of wind-driven snow from January 6 to January 8, 1996. The City University of New York reported that the storm "dropped 20 inches of snow, had wind gusts of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet high."[2]
This storm was a classic example of a nor'easter, but the storm would not have been as historically significant without the presence of the arctic high pressure system located to the north of New York.[3] It was followed by another storm, an Alberta Clipper, on January 12,[4] then unusually warm weather and torrential rain which caused rapid melting and river flooding in the Northeast Floods later that month.[5] Along with the March Superstorm of 1993 and the January 2016 United States blizzard, it is one of only three snowstorms to receive the top rating of 5, or "Extreme", on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale (NESIS).[6]
^"Service Assessment – Blizzard of '96" (PDF). NOAA. December 1996. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 26, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
^"Disasters New York City (NYC) The Blizzard of 1996". NYC Data Baruch College of the City University of New York. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
^Lipman, Don (2013-01-07). "One wild storm: A look back at the 'Blizzard of '96'". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
^Chad Merrill (2012-01-08). "Remembering the Blizzard of '96".
^NOAA, National Weather Service, Office of Hydrology (March 1998). "Service Assessment: Northeast Floods of January 1996" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Enloe. "Regional Snowfall Index (RSI)". noaa.gov.
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