March Blizzard News Today

Links to weather emergency resources and information around the New York area.

If you are old enough to remember, you probably have at least one story to tell about the March Blizzard of 1993, still considered the storm of the century.

It could take thousands of steps to walk off the caloric impact from a few famous St Patricks Day treats. These include Shamrock Shakes, pints of Guinness and milkshakes and donuts on offering.

Current and past local officials recall the 1993 whiteout that paralyzed the region.

March in Maine. I love that every one this past week was acting like winter was over. The above-average temperatures certainly helped. But PEOPLE! Do you FORGET? It's not Spring until maybe late May. At the EARLIEST. I swear, the summer is so perfect here in Maine that it somehow wipes out our memory (like that cool memory stick light thing from Men in Black), and we forget how horrible the weather can be this time of year.

March in Maine. I love that every one this past week was acting like winter was over. The above-average temperatures certainly helped. But PEOPLE! Do you FORGET? It's not Spring until maybe late May. At the EARLIEST. I swear, the summer is so perfect here in Maine that it somehow wipes out our memory (like that cool memory stick light thing from Men in Black), and we forget how horrible the weather can be this time of year.

March in Maine. I love that every one this past week was acting like winter was over. The above-average temperatures certainly helped. But PEOPLE! Do you FORGET? It's not Spring until maybe late May. At the EARLIEST. I swear, the summer is so perfect here in Maine that it somehow wipes out our memory (like that cool memory stick light thing from Men in Black), and we forget how horrible the weather can be this time of year.

March in Maine. I love that every one this past week was acting like winter was over. The above-average temperatures certainly helped. But PEOPLE! Do you FORGET? It's not Spring until maybe late May. At the EARLIEST. I swear, the summer is so perfect here in Maine that it somehow wipes out our memory (like that cool memory stick light thing from Men in Black), and we forget how horrible the weather can be this time of year.

80 years ago, the Ides of March Blizzard killed 72 in the Red River Valley Months after the devastating and surprising Armistice Day Blizzard, North Dakota and Minnesota residents preparing for spring were once again sucker punched by another tragic winter storm that struck March 15-17, 1941. 8:30 am, Mar. 16, 2021 × During the height of the March 1941 blizzard, seven people were stranded for hours in this car in a ditch of U.S. Highway 75 south of Moorhead. Very little s...

- Myrna Baumann As Baumann’s story recounts, the family’s hired man had no weather-related difficulties driving her mother, Frances Geritz, to the hospital in Lakota on the afternoon of March 15, 1941. Mrs. Geritz was having labor pains. “Many other people were out that afternoon doing their weekly shopping on a very nice Saturday and enjoying the snow melting as we do in March in North Dakota,” Baumann said. But, as can happen on the North Dakota prairie in March, the weather quickly ...