Do you think more than a foot of snow in Akron this February was rough?
On December 1-2, 1974, the records show 24.3 inches of snow fell over two days. 17.18 inches fell in 24 hours which remains a December record. Here's a page from Grandad's photo album about the big snow in 1974.. Uncle Bob and Dad are sitting on the sled on top of a mound of snow near the driveway at Grandad's.
The winter of 1977 was the coldest winter of the 20th century with an average temperature of 20.7 degrees. The average temperature for January was 11.4 degrees. The record for the month was minus 13 degrees on January 29.
Here are the first four graphs of the news story by Beacon Journal reporter Don Bandy:
The Akron area. was still bogged down today under the heaviest. snowfall ever recorded here.
More than 2,000 persons this morning remained in emergency shelters, stranded by , the 24.3, inches of' snow :that paralyzed cities, towns and villages in the five-county area.
The U.S. Weather Bureau reported 16.4 inches of snow fell Sunday and another 7.9
Inches Monday. The snowfall recorded at Akron-Canton Airport, broke a 20-inch record accumulation in November, 1913.
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