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Eastern Ohio experienced some rough weather over the past two weeks but that was nothing like what happened throughout Ohio and the region 47 years ago during a storm dubbed the “Great Blizzard of 1978”.
The massive winter storm hit the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes Jan. 25-27, 1978.
The blizzard dumped vast amounts of snow with near-hurricane-strength wind gusts, heaping snow into enormous drifts up to 15 feet tall. In the end, 70 people died during the storm — 51 of them in Ohio alone.
The storm system produced some of the lowest pressure readings ever recorded in the United States mainland that were not associated with hurricanes.
Visibilities were near zero for much of the storm. Temperatures rapidly plunged from the 30s to bitter-cold single digits in just a few hours. Wind gusts averaged 50 to 70 mph for much of the day on Jan. 26.
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