Happy Anniversary Blizzard of ’66

It was a time that Central New York baby boomers will never forget. The "Great Blizzard of 1966"was a 5-day event that closed schools, roads and-in some cases-isolated entire communities. The blizzard began on Thursday January 27th and continued unabated through Monday the 31st. Record setting snow totals were recorded throughout up state New York. How much snow fell you ask?

A total of 103" of snow was recorded at Oswego, 50" of this falling on the last day of the storm alone. 50" of snow were also recorded at Camden, New York on the same day. The last day of the blizzard the winds subsided and snowburst conditions prevailed, with the snow falling straight down. Fair Haven did not have official snowfall records at the time, but state troopers reported measuring 100" of snow on the level, where none had been prior to the storm. Syracuse, New York received a record snowfall of 42.3" which remained their heaviest storm on record, until the Blizzard of 1993.

via North American blizzard of 1966 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.