When it comes to notorious winter weather events throughout history, only a select few are remembered by name. The Blizzard of 1996 is one of them. It's one of the defining winter storms of the 20 th ...

We're heading toward the climatological peak time of year for major East Coast snowstorms. On Jan. 6, 1996, 29 years ago today, one of the strongest such snowstorms, known as the "Blizzard of 1996," ...

The D.C. area has trudged through five snowstorms in 30 years that shut down the region, but perhaps none was more devastating locally than the famed blizzard of Jan. 6-8, 1996. If the run on ...

Twenty years ago this week, the second big blizzard of the terrible winter of 1996-97 struck the region. The storm lasted three days, making it the longest blizzard of the winter. It started the ...

As blizzards go, Sunday's was a whopper. But here, where blizzards are the folklore and in many ways the scourge of the Great Plains, Daryl Ritchison says Sunday's storm doesn't even rank in the top ...