The bar is high for historic snowstorms in a lake-effect snowbelt city such as Buffalo, New York. On Jan. 30, 1977, 48 years ago today, parts of New York and southern Ontario were in the midst of one ...

This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. The blizzard of 1977 hit ...

Frank Cservenyak saved lives during the blizzard of 1977 when he and a small team were stuck inside CHOW radio in Welland during the historic weather event. The well-respected on-air personality died ...

John O'Rourk, retired from the Buffalo Police Department, at the Tifft Street ramp to Route 5 and the Skyway. During the great blizzard of 1977, O'Rourk and his partner, George Smith, helped many ...

But the blizzard of Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, 1977, remains the storm against which all other future storms will be judged, according to an informal survey of meteorologists with the Buffalo office of the ...

“Say that name to almost anyone in Port Colborne and you’ll get a smile and a story. Usually about the relentless blizzard of 1977 or the Crystal Beach amusement park,” said Patti Ruzycki Stirling.

The blizzard was different, the rare event when words cannot fully do it justice. It was not a storm so much as a natural assault. The most brutal winter in Buffalo history seemed to come together in ...