Cincinnati may not be in Ohio’s Lake Effect belt, but we’ve seen our share of significant snowfalls.
The winters of 1976-1977 and 1977-1978 take the cake for the most memorable seasons of snow. People came from far and wide to cross the frozen Ohio River, either lacing up their sturdiest snow boots or ice-skating to and from Kentucky and Ohio.
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This week’s two-day dump of the white stuff has been memorable in its own ways. Between Sunday and Monday, snow accumulation totaled 10.6 inches in Cincinnati: 6.4 inches of snowfall on Sunday, and 4.2 inches on Monday. Some spots reported more than 11 inches of snow accumulation, according to National Weather Service records.
It seems like a lot, but was the snow historic?
Historic snowfall records in Cincinnati
The National Weather Service at Wilmington has been tracking snowfall totals since 1893. These are the top five daily snowfalls in Cincinnati since the point of record:
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On Feb. 4, 1998, daily snowfall totaled at 11.8 inches.
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On Jan. 7, 1996, daily snowfall totaled at 11.6 inches.
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On Dec. 8, 1917, daily snowfall totaled at 11 inches.
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On March 22, 1968, daily snowfall totaled at 9.8 inches.
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On Nov. 4, 1936, daily snowfall totaled at 8.9 inches.
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While the famous winters of the 1970s didn’t make the cut on daily snowfall, January 1977 holds another snow-related record. Temperatures remained below freezing and snow was steadily piling up for a long period, so the snow got deeper and deeper as the weeks wore on.
The days between Jan. 21 through Jan. 23, 1977, hold the record for the highest snow depth in Cincinnati at 17 inches.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati snow: How did Winter Storm Blair stack up against records?