The February 2007 North American blizzard was a massive winter storm that swept across and adversely affected most of the eastern half of North America, that ran for 3 days: February 12, Through the 14th, Valentine’s day. It was precedent setting as The National Weather Service said that this storm was one of the three largest snowstorms to hit the inland areas of the northeastern United States since way back in 1940.

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On February 12, 2006, this day in weather history...brutal weather was responsible for trapping and stranding  five Yukon Quest mushers and their team on Eagle Summit. These racers and their teams were stuck on a mountain ledge, and their area for waiting it out is now knee deep in snow with the wind creating the bitterest of wind chills given that they are exposed at that elevation.

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Many people are familiar with the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. But, did you know that there was a Tuskegee Weather Detachment that played a role in producing the first black meteorologists? The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black military pilots in what was called the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), which would later merge into what we know today as the U.S. Air Force.   This group were incredibly talented and their accomplishments earned them more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, awarded to anyone who goes on to distinguish themselves by any single acts of heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight.

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Val d’sere, France  has been part of the Alpine Skiing World Cup since the late 1960s and was the site for Alpine skiing competitions at the 1992 Winter games in Albertville, France.  They played host to the men's downhill, super-giant slalom, giant slalom, and combined. But on this morning in weather history, there was a sudden and shuddering explosion-like sound and More than 100,000 cubic yards (76,500M) of snow crashed down from a treeless, 7,000‐foot (almost 2150M) crest known as Le Dome, rushed 700 yards(640M) across the Alpine source of Isere River, took out and swallowed a section of National Route 202, before smashing  into and through the chalet.

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This nor'easter developed on February 8, and as it moved towards the northeast, intensifying to become a powerful storm, it unloaded a staggering 20in of snow (51 cm). The snow really amped up on the 9th. By 7 p.m on the 9th ten inches (25CM) had accumulated in the city. By midnight, 15 inches (almost 40cm) was levelled on Central Park, while a truly crippling 20 inches(51CM) stopped everything at Kennedy Airport. The entire Northeast was covered under mountains of snow.

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The Great Saskatchewan Blizzard of 1947 hit an area where families were still getting to know each other after returning from World War 2.  There were also populations of displaced residents from Great Britain who were moved to the Canadian Prairies as a result of the devastating blitzkrieg bombing of their country back home.  Single mothers and fatherless children all still trying to put pieces together again in  land so beautiful but a land that winter loves to beat up on every year. 

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Manitoba’s Highway 75, is part of what is termed “Canada's National Highway System”; it is also part of a network of highways and rail lines that makes up the “International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor” that connects to cities in central regions of North America. If this gets shut down it is BIG $$$ lost.

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The snowfall was nonstop for 24 hours; and when the taps turned off, these GTA locations were buried under huge accumulation totals:

This has since been eclipsed by the January 17, 2022 storm and that story will be in our 2022 Year in review and then the January 17, 2023 episode of this podcast.

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The full picture of the impact of this series of catastrophic events would unfold and it was far greater than anyone could have imagined when it happened this day in weather history.  In all, 22 out the country’s 34 provinces were reported to have been affected.

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We’ve covered this before, there are areas in BC that are simply not known for appreciable amounts of snow and for that reason people from around Canada will relocate there to avoid it. It was a “Storm To Remember”. The storm caused tens of thousands of outages across the South Coast over the February 4th and 5th weekend.

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