Piano maker William Steinway woke up on March 12, 1888, and discovered "the most fearful snowstorm . . . I ever experienced" had buried New York City. Before the day had ended, he wrote in his diary, ...

The Daily Gazette is reprinting excerpts of the late Larry Hart’s long-running column, “Tales of Old Dorp.” A relatively snow-free February does not mean spectacular snows of winter are over. Today, ...

You often hear about a blizzard's ability to shut a city down. Now imagine such a storm happening before the basic weather forecast infrastructure (satellites, computer forecast models) we take for ...

Mother Nature has a way of reminding us who’s really in charge. Throughout history, weather events have stopped armies in their tracks, wiped out entire cities, and forced millions of people to pack ...

A reader from Sherrard wants to know about the blizzard of 1888 -- both when and where it occurred. There actually were two famous blizzards in 1888. The first hit the Dakotas and Minnesota in January ...

"The Children's Blizzard" by David Laskin, HarperCollins, 307 pages, $24.95. Walk down the Great Hall of Nebraska's State Capitol, heading for the Rotunda. Look up at the giant murals. Look ...

As school visits ramp up, meteorologist Kevin Skarupa answers two top questions: the biggest blizzards in history and what it ...