When Winter was Winter

So while some of us dig out and some of us just dig it and some of us(me) missed it. The Winter of '09/'10 will be one for the record books. I wont get into to all of the snowy details. But I wanted to bring up a Winter Storm that hit the Eastern U.S. February 12-14, 1899. A storm simply known as "The Snow King".

Before Willard Scott, Al Roker, Jim Cantore or The Snowpocalypse, a winter storm hit the United States east of the Rocky Mountains with the fury unmatched in scope and scale. The winter weather records that were set during and after, in some cases, still stand to day.

Here is a list of some of them:

- Cape May, New Jersey: 0 °F
- Tallahassee, Florida: −2 °F (only sub-zero temperature in Florida)
- Atlanta, Georgia: −9 °F (coldest ever in Atlanta history since at least 1874)
-Sandy Hook, Kentucky: −33 °F
-Minden, Louisiana: −16 °F
-Fort Logan, Montana: −61 °F
-Camp Clark, Nebraska: −47 °F
-Milligan, Ohio: −39 °F
-Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania: −39 °F
-Santuc, South Carolina: −11 °F
-Erasmus, Tennessee: −30 °F
-Austin, Texas: −1 °F
-San Antonio, Texas: +4 °F
-Monterey, Virginia: −29 °F
-Dayton, West Virginia: −35 °F
-Washington, D.C.: −15 °F (still the all-time low temperature within the D.C )


Other weather records of note and weather anomalies:

-Cape May, New Jersey recorded 34" which is the highest single storm snowfall total ever in New Jersey
-The Port of New Orleans was completely iced over by February 13, with ice floes reportedly floating out of the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico.
-Also on February 14, the low in Miami was 29 °F

Here is a great picture from the Baltimore area in the wake of the Blizzard of 1899.
CLICK HERE....look familiar!

BTW 33 days until SPRING!!!