Image Credit: Sarah Ewart
The headline uses “blizzard” in the broad historical sense often applied to severe winter storms. The 12 events below include snow, ice, extreme cold, wind, and transportation paralysis; not every one was officially classified under the modern blizzard definition.
Historical summaries vary in the numbers they report, especially for older storms. This account emphasizes documented impacts and avoids pretending a single snowfall total can represent conditions across an entire state…