One of Alabama’s biggest and most damaging snowstorms began on New Year’s Eve 1963 and continued the next day until the majority of the state was covered. More than 17 inches lay on the ground in Huntsville alone.
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More than 15 inches fell in Huntsville before the new year arrived, according to the National Weather Service.
“It snowed so much that Huntsville had the dubious distinction of recording the most snow of any weather service station in the continental United States that last day of 1963,” reporter John Anderson wrote in a 2003 Huntsville Times article. Twenty-seven accidents were reported. Remarkably, no one was injured…