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Historic US Winter Storms: Ten Blizzards, Freezes and Ice Disasters
America’s worst winters have buried cities under four feet of snow, sunk freighters on the Great Lakes, frozen Florida and even silenced Ni...
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Buffalo Lake-Effect Snow Photos: The November 2014 Snowvember Storm
In November 2014, Lake Erie buried the southern suburbs of Buffalo, New York, under as much as seven feet of snow in three days, while the ...
Slovenia Ice Storm 2014: Postojna, Power Cuts and Half the Forests Damaged
Between 31 January and 2 February 2014, freezing rain fell across Slovenia for three days and froze on everything it touched. Cars, petrol ...
Winter Storm Janus 2014: Photos of the January East Coast Blizzard
On 21 January 2014 a fast-strengthening winter storm swept up the Interstate 95 corridor and buried the cities of the US East Coast. Philad...
Polar Vortex 2014: How Arctic Air Spread Across North America
This globe, made by meteorologist Anthony Sagliani with the Living Earth app on 5 January 2014, shows the polar vortex spilling Arctic air ...
January 2014 Polar Vortex: Midwest Cold Records, Chicago −16°F and Impacts
The first week of January 2014 delivered the coldest air much of the United States had felt in roughly two decades. Behind a powerful Arcti...
Ice Shove 2013: Lake Ice Destroys Homes at Dauphin Lake and Mille Lacs
In May 2013, strong winds drove sheets of lake ice onto the shores of two lakes, one in Minnesota and one in Manitoba, crushing decks, smas...
Winter Storm Alexa, December 2013: Snow in Jerusalem, Cairo and the Levant
In mid-December 2013 a powerful winter storm named Alexa swept across the eastern Mediterranean. It brought Jerusalem its heaviest snowfall...
Snow in Cairo, December 2013: Storm Alexa and the Fake Sphinx Photo
On the morning of Friday 13 December 2013, residents on the eastern edge of Cairo woke to something most of them had never seen: snow settl...
Snow in San Pedro de Atacama: The 2013 Storm in the Driest Desert
In late August 2013 a cold front pushing north from Antarctica dropped snow on San Pedro de Atacama, the adobe oasis town in Chile’s Atacam...