The record we tied was set November 4, 1949. It was part of what would become ... It begged the question from a few readers -- what was that winter like? After a few seconds, it dawned on me ...

Editorial, Telegraph-Bulletin, Jan. 5, 1949 Of all recorded blizzards on the ... It already had been a miserable winter in Nebraska. A classic “three-day” Nov. 18-21 blizzard left 10-foot ...

Southern California wasn’t the only area impacted by the snowstorm of 1949. Much of the Western U.S. was slammed by heavy snow and severe winter weather in January 1949. Nebraska and South ...

"Only the stunningly cold winter of 1949 exceeded it in a significant way," he wrote. In an email, Mass said that for Oregon, that cold winter of 1993 was actually colder than this winter.