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Old 01-25-2018, 01:42 PM
 
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The winter of 1977 was colder. Three other storms dumped more snow on Cincinnati. So, what made the Great Blizzard of 1978 so devastating?
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Old 01-25-2018, 09:34 PM
 
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The day before the blizzard was a coatless day as the high was close to 70F. Seriously.

The drop in barometric pressure was tremendous, causing the weather change to be so dramatic.
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Old 01-26-2018, 07:54 AM
 
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I was a high school kid still living in Cincy in 1978, it wasn't 70 degrees the day before, but it was about 40 (you can look up the records from the NWS), we had rain, snowpack was melting, then a 30 degree temperature drop around midnight on the 25th. Everything froze almost instantly. Streets were like skating rinks. Lowest recorded barometric pressure in the city's history. Then you throw 7 inches of snow and sustained 35 MPH winds on that ice for most of the day on the 26th and it was, as Dandy Don Meredith used to sing around that time, turn out the lights, the party's over.

They actually created a blizzard game based on those bad winters of 1977 and 1978. I have the Cincinnati one somewhere in the attic. The object was to get home safely and not get caught in the blizzard. They were made for pretty much every city in the east.
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