On today's date: historical blizzard, a legendary photo

P Arts of the Plains experience Blizzard conditions today, but that is nothing compared to what happened almost 60 years ago.

On March 4, 1966, the northern levels, especially the Dakotas, were in the teeth of one of the worst snow storms in modern panels.

In Devils Lake (30.5 inches) and Grand Forks, North Dakota (27.8 inches), an LL-time snowstorm record was set up. But it was the wind that transformed this into a blizzard of history.

W -ind gusts sometimes showed the snow in up to 30 to 40 feet drifts, perhaps the deepest drifts that were observed in the USA, according to the weather historian Christopher Burt. Burt said that Bismarck, North Dakota, has 30 hours of visibility during the snowstorm to an eighth of a mile or lower.

According to the National Weather Service, North Dakota Department of Transportation, Ernest Feland, the photo below of the employee Bill Koch has as big as the tips of power lines on the mammoth snow blueprint. This remains one of the most famous snowstorm photos that have ever been taken.

The Blizzard not only clogged the streets, struck power and led to numerous business and school leaves, but also proved to be fatal. At least 18 deaths were held responsible for the storm, some of them to be disoriented in the open country or by heart attacks to clarify snow.

And if you remember reading “on this date” yesterday, this happened from the same large -scale low -pressure system, which on March 3. March, the deadly Jackson, Mississippi, F5 Tornado.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at Weather.com and has reported national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Apply to him BlueskyPresent X (formerly Twitter) And Facebook.