Dear Tom,
I was just a kid but I think I remember a big snowstorm that occurred just after Halloween. It must have been in the early 1950s. Am I correct?
Brian Schwartz
Dear Brian,
The year was 1951 and the first week of November featured two major snowstorms. Halloween was a chilly affair with highs only reaching the lower 40s. A surge of cold air followed and held the mercury to just 29 degrees on Nov. 2, setting the stage for a fast-moving Alberta Clipper that dumped 4.4 inches of snow on the city during the afternoon of the 3rd. That was just the beginning as a second, more powerful snowstorm hit on Nov. 6-7, bringing another 9.3 inches of snow. That storm was accompanied by howling northeast wind gusts to 65 mph at the lakefront Meigs Field airport. The winds produced high waves that brought major flooding and property damage along the lakefront.
I was just a kid but I think I remember a big snowstorm that occurred just after Halloween. It must have been in the early 1950s. Am I correct?
Brian Schwartz
Dear Brian,
The year was 1951 and the first week of November featured two major snowstorms. Halloween was a chilly affair with highs only reaching the lower 40s. A surge of cold air followed and held the mercury to just 29 degrees on Nov. 2, setting the stage for a fast-moving Alberta Clipper that dumped 4.4 inches of snow on the city during the afternoon of the 3rd. That was just the beginning as a second, more powerful snowstorm hit on Nov. 6-7, bringing another 9.3 inches of snow. That storm was accompanied by howling northeast wind gusts to 65 mph at the lakefront Meigs Field airport. The winds produced high waves that brought major flooding and property damage along the lakefront.
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