Weather, of course, has always been a news story. The Beacon Journal on Thursday -printed a graphic showing the worst winter weather in Akron history. Digging into the Liggett photo albums I came up with these pages on two of the worst.
The stories for both were written by Don Bandy who always kept the monthly weather charts in addition to his rewrite choirs.
Do you think our more than a foot of snow 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.
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 in a report by Bandy on the 1974 snowfal:
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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I'll never forget the blizzard of '77.
I was pregnant with Beth (Marvin) and we measured 24 inches of snow on our picnic table in our back yard (in Guernsey County.) Managed to drive our jeep to Salt Fork and were the only tire tracks between Rocky Fork and Salt Fork. The staff had had to spend the night there.
We had 11 snow days that winter (no school for PAM!)and the state changed the "calamity days" rule that year because so many districts were closed more than five days.
The weather certainly was news and the Beacon covered it well.
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