A Merry Christmas to everyone of all nationalities and all locations. Some of us had a beautiful white Christmas with falling snow and/or snow on the ground and some of us didn't, but since this year what other sort of weather has people encountered for Christmas? Not in any order of year, but in type of events that will be mentioned of the spirits of Christmas past. Christmas in 1982 is known as the Christmas 1982 Tornado Outbreak for people in the Central-Southeastern U.S. as a system spawned 18 tornadoes from Dec. 23-25 with 3 lives lost. Luckily, tornadic events are not very common around Christmas time, but blizzard events are a little more common. The North American Blizzard of 1947 sprawled snow all over the Northeast Region of the U.S. dropping as much as 26 inches of snow in Manhattan at Central Park. Snow started falling on Dec. 25 and steadily and silently fell through Dec. 26. As harmless as it sounds it left devastation behind by taking away 77 lives. A much more recent blizzard event was the December 2010 North American Blizzard. Considered as a historic blizzard dropped as much as 34 inches of snow in and around New Jersey. It affected the entire Atlantic Coastline with showers and thunderstorms in Florida to blizzard conditions in the Northeast. This was one of a few storms that had the rare phenomena of thunder snow in it. Was Jim Cantore there I'm not sure, but if he was he probably would have reacted like he did in early 2011 when he experienced it in Chicago.
Amongst the nearly 3 feet of snow that was dropped and the howling winds that came along with it, this blizzard caused a pretty penny worth of damage rounding to $60 million and left behind 7 to perish. It originated on Dec. 22 and didn't finish causing havoc for the U.S. until the 29th. Other notable storms was the Christmas 1994 Nor'easter that formed Dec. 22 and ended on the 26th. No snow or ice was reported from this storm, but it intensified rapidly to an amazing 970mb storm creating problems from the Southeast to the New England area. Southeast experienced heavy rainfall with over 5 inches of rainfall and windy conditions along the Atlantic Coastline causing massive beach erosion from the Carolinas to Massachusetts. More than $20 million of damage was caused by it and 2 lives were lost, but luckily no other lives were taken.
This is a list of some of the most memorable weather events on Christmas. As weather recording has only be going on for abour 150 years for most places a lot of events cannot be taken into account and ones that were small but leaving big impacts on families were included either as they hard to track down. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas regardless of where you are.
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