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Ice Storms

They bring rain, ice and snow Winter storms normally bring rain, as well as snowAll storms are a mixture of warm air and cold air in places where the warmer air extends to the ground, the precipitation will fall as rain when the layer of the cold air is thick enough the freezing rain below degrees but doesn't turn into ice it hits


The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic blizzard which struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes from January 25–27, 1978. The 28.28 inches (958 millibars) barometric pressure measurement recorded in Cleveland, Ohio


Two deaths in the metropolitan area were attributed to the storm, including a man who died of carbon monoxide poisoning while he was warming up his car, and a man killed when a roof collapsed under the weight of the snow in the blizzard of 2003 on President Day


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