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Looking back at last week’s Gulf Coast snowstorm and placing it in historical context

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I’ve gotten some questions about how the snowstorm along the Gulf Coast this past week has compared to previous storms, especially the large snow event of 1895. This post in The Eyewall provides some great historical context and visuals from previous snowstorms and compares them to the event that just happened. Some parts of the Southeast have set new records compared to all previous storms, but the storm of 1895 is hard to beat on some statistics.

The Miguel Rosteet home, corner of Pujo and Bilbo Streets, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Lake Charles received 22 inches of snow in 1895. (From the Maude Reid Scrapbooks, under indefinite loan from the Calcasieu Parish Public Library to the McNeese State University Department of Archives & Special Collections, Frazar Memorial Library)

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