The Great Blizzard of 1888 left an indelible mark on popular culture, inspiring countless stories, poems, and artworks. It ...

The Great Blizzard of March 12-14, 1888 As Paul Kocin and Louis Uccellini noted in their classic compendium Northeast Snowstorms , the Blizzard of ’88 was unique for several reasons.

And so began the day that people from Washington, D.C., to New England experienced the Blizzard of 1888, a weather event so fierce that it's still a storm by ... the largest amount to fall in ...

A New York street is shown during the blizzard of 1888. The blizzard that occured March 12-14 paralyzed the city with 40″ of snow and winds that reached up to 60 miles per hour, creating drifts ...

Don't get too excited about spring: remember that from March 11 to March 14, 1888, one of the most intense blizzards in American history buried NYC.

Jan. 12 marked the 124th anniversary of the blizzard of 1888, also known as the Children’s Blizzard and the Schoolhouse Blizzard. The event claimed 235 lives, most of them children ...

The day after the blizzard, Jan. 13, 1888, large drifts blanketed most of Minnesota and the Dakotas, Nebraska and Iowa. The Children’s Blizzard was considered one of the deadliest blizzards of ...

The advent of a potential blizzard causes me to pause my story of the Musica family. They’ll be back on Thursday. Meanwhile, please consider the following: Whenever anyone talks about snowstorms in ...

The nightmare mega-storm on Jan. 12, 1888, is sometimes called the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard because it caught so many children away from home on a Thursday. Acts of heroism by parents, children ...

It will include photos and stories from the storm, as well as an in-depth comparison with the Great Blizzard of 1888. A book signing will follow. Doors open at 5:30 and the event is free of charge ...

Graphic from ‘Blizzard: The Great Storm of ‘88’ by Judd Caplovich. In New York City the rain turned to snow at 1 a.m. on Monday March 12 when the temperature fell to freezing.