• New England
• "The Great Snow of 1717"
• 4 storms in a week

• Maryland and Virginia
• "The Washington and Jefferson Snowstorm"

• Maryland to Maine
• "The Long Storm"

• Rhode Island

• New York City, Long Island, and southern New England

• East Coast
• "The Cold Storm"  (9 below zero Fahrenheit)

• Dakota Territories
• In Laura Ingall Wilder's Books
• 132 inches of snow that winter

• Dakota and Montana territories, (Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas)
• “Schoolchildren's Blizzard” because it came at a time when many children were headed home from school.
• 235 deaths

March 11, 1888

• East Coast
• “Blizzard of 1888”
• 400 deaths
• $20 million damage

• Washington, D.C.
• "Knickerbocker Storm"  (Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed.)
• 100 Deaths

Jan. 2, 1949
(series of winter storms between
Jan. 1 and Feb. 22)

• Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakato, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada
• winds of up to 72 mph created drifts as high as 30 ft.
• Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perished.

Nov. 25, 1950

• Eastern U.S.
• “Storm of the Century”
• 383 deaths.
• Damages $70 million.

Jan. 28, 1977

• Buffalo, N.Y.
• “Blizzard of 1977”
• winds  to 70 mph, drifts were as high as 30 ft.
• Deaths29

Feb. 6, 1978

• Eastern U.S.
• “Blizzard of 1978”
• 54 deaths
• Damages $1 billion in damage

March 12, 1983

• Eastern U.S.
• “Superstorm”
• Deaths 270 people
• Record snowfalls (with rates of 2–3 in. per hour)
• Damage $3–6 billion

Jan. 6, 1996

• Eastern U.S.
• heavy snow paralyzed the Appalachians, the mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast
• Deaths 187
• Damages reached $3 billion.