COLUMBUS, Ohio — This week marks 47 years since the "Great Blizzard of 1978." The massive winter storm hit the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes Jan. 25-27. The blizzard dumped vast amounts of snow ...

For those who lived through it, it is known quite simply as “The Great Blizzard of ‘78.” The Blizzard of 1978 actually was the second of three large storm systems to hit the U.S. in the opening weeks ...

Brockton was bombarded with 2 feet of snow, stranding cars and marooning workers and students. What it was like in words and ...

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 26, 1978, temperatures in Columbus ... that made this “The Great Blizzard of ‘78” — one of the greatest snowstorms of the century for Ohioans.

It seems like whenever we get large snowfall in Ohio, people think back to January 1978 when we were hit by a blizzard. The great blizzard of 1978, hit Jan. 25-27 that year, but if you go back a ...

1978, which became known as the “Great Blizzard of 1978.” The first three weeks of 1978 brought several snowstorms and persistent cold. Between January 9 and 23, the snowpack reached a January ...

The infamous Blizzard of 1978 first hit the Northeast on Feb. 6, 1978, and stretched into the next day. Snow fell at a rate of 4 inches per hour, and wind gusts reached 83 mph during the storm, ...

(Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2016.)The Blizzard of 1978, which hit Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, left Indianapolis buried under more than 20 inches of snow, as 15-plus inches of ...

The Blizzard of 1978, also known as the Great Blizzard, is etched in the memories of Northeast Ohio residents as one of the most devastating winter storms in history. Spanning from January 25 to ...

INDIANAPOLIS — January 26, 2025, marked the 47th anniversary of the Blizzard of 1978, one of the most severe and memorable winter storms to ever impact the state of Indiana, the city of Indianapolis, ...