Ah, the good ol' days. Back when the weather channel could make it more than 4 minutes without a commercial break, 24 hours without showing 10 reruns of 'Storm Stories,' and they didn't name major blizzards after clownfish from Pixar movies.
I was a senior in high school in 1996. The Blizzard of 1996 cancelled school for the entire week forcing the school system to cancel mid-terms exam that we studying for the week before the blizzard hit. The theme for our yearbook that year was "Braving the Elements"
Here in Philly the meteorologists kept changing the snow totals from 10-18 inches before the storm started to at least 30 before the storm ended. Shows you how unpredictable the weather is and how wrong the computer forecast can be, even today.
***** More like the "Comcast Weather Channel", now that NBC Universal is a division of Comcast. I agree with everyone here, that The Weather Channel was at its best during its Landmark Communications years.
Hell of a storm. I lived in Central NJ when that happened. The 93 storm had way worse wind, but this one was a snow nightmare. Where we were, we got like 3 feet of snow with 6 foot drifts. Between my dad and me, we had to go out every hour to clear the driveway. By the time we were done clearing it, there was an inch or two where we started. Absolutely incredible.
I remember the Blizzard of 1996 very well! When I opened our front door I was greeted by a two foot wall of snow! It took my brother and I literally the whole day to dig us out. We piled snow so high next to one of our trees that it reached the top branches.
1996 was the year that sparked my love for weather; first the blizzard of 96,then I moved to NC that summer and Hurricane Fran came a couple months later.
I remember this blizzard well. We got 37” in Morris County NJ. It took my 12 year old an hour just to shovel the front steps. They declared a state of emergency and no one went anywhere for 3 days.
I remember this...very well. I believe we had 33 inches of snow where I was in southeast PA (northwest of Phila.). I was 25 then, and I remember not being able to get in the front door to my wife and I's apartment. The snow drifts were even higher! I still have pictures of our cars buried under the snow. Moved to southeast GA just a few months after, but I still miss the Philadelphia area, especially WPVI Channel 6 Action News with Jim Gardner! Grew up watching him, Marc Howard, (the late) Jim O'Brien, Rob Jennings, Lisa Thomas-Laurie, Chris Wagner, Dave Roberts, (the late) Gary Papa, Don Tollefson...the list of talent from the Action News team is endless!
damn i remember this like it was yesterday i was 10. I remember having off from school like two weeks this winter. We had so many snow storms it was crazy. SHit i wish i could go back to this year everything was so much better.
Ah the storm were Doug Hill from channel 7 D.c. said that the storm moved out to sea and us up here in frederick will only get 1-3" of snow. Boy was he wrong ,we got 36+" of snow . And then get on the air and said we must have misunderstood him lol
33 inches where I was in Maple Shade, NJ. I lived in an apartment complex and because of the way the wind was whipping around the buildings, my truck was completely clear of any snow after the storm, but the parking lot was blocked off by 5 or 6 foot drifts so I couldn't go anywhere anyway.
I have so many memories of this storm. I was 15-16 years old and use two pairs of socks as gloves. Smoked some goods green and went down Beacon fuckin Hill. LOL the good ole days.
Got a request for TWC hear me out please bring back the trammell starks music & other smooth jazz music from the 90's that ya'll played during the "local on the 8's" weather forecast back in days you all can least do me that favor....
I remember that winter very well living in Massachusetts at the time, I was 13 back then, that was a very snowy winter that year it even snowed into April that year, The school year went into the end of June that year with so many snow days.
I live in Philadelphia. I don't remember what year it was but the Blizzard hit so hard we were out of School for 3 weeks. We had to make up days well into July.
I like how Bruce mentions some moderate to heavy snows in Northern New Jersey. I live in North-Central New Jersey. I think my school was canceled that Monday, but re-opened on Tuesday. I miss those days when I would watch TWC during winter to see if any winter storm would be significant enough to close school. Sometimes, it would and I would be happy. Other times, not so much, though occasionally there were delayed openings for minor winter storms. Good old days. Sigh...
amazing how many of these huge storms hit sunday night into monday...i been keeping track since the 70s and i say 75 -80 percent of the real big ones hit sun sunnight into monday
I was in 7th grade when this happened. We had 2 or 3 days off from school! I think this winter we have now is the worst since 96! We've had 3 or 4 back to back snow storms and the old snow hasn't melted yet! I cant wait for winter to be over! I HATE THIS!
Not quite as much as the 93 Superstorm, I had over a foot here in SE KY during the great 96 Blizzard, just a kid but remember it well. Also, the 95-96 season is still rank #1 snowiest season here throughout East KY ❄❄❄
@bobywade517 alot of things were if you get rid of the snow part. but cant say this year stunk if going with the snow since it was better this year than 96 depending on where you are.
I agree. This was great coverage of the blizzard. They had some good OCM's back then who gave the network a more respectable image. Today it seems more magazine/tabloidish.
I lived in Massachusetts at the time. I remember being very young I was 5 and a lot of snow and even a couple lightning strikes. Worst snowstorm I ever saw.
@cedarpaw23 Me too, I was 7 months old and I live in one of the places where it happened and my parents told me we were stuck in our house with all my grandparents.
so I moved from New Orleans (average snowfall...once about every 7-8 yrs) to Philly in June 95, the blizzard hits and I'm living in an apartment. Well I was so fascinated by the storm that I kept leaving and driving around in it filming on my camcorder. My girlfriend kept telling me "their saying to stay indoors". Well since I kept moving my truck, by the time I was done for the evening, I parked in one of the clear parking spots the plow had cleared. So the next morning all of my neighbors were wondering why I didn't have 3 feet of snow to dig out. LOL silly Yankees.
years before weather channel became an entertainment and news channel when NBC bought it in 2008. I prefer watching the standard def version of the weather channel as well as weatherscan which is great although i prefer following weather NJ on facebook for weather reports. Forecasters are always wrong. Will this week's snowstorm be bigger than this blizzard? I don't know...
@bloodymeerkat78 i was 6 i dont rember it at all still errrr. but i do rember weather events from hurricane floyed on and best blizzard id have to say was the last blizzard of 2010.
Back well before they started goofily naming winter storms. Tropical systems should only have names. Blizzard of whatever year is just enough. These storms are not as damaging and rememberable as a hurricane.
@justintime2989 Ah i had much more fun in the 90s dude i was a kid. I miss those times watching nickelodeon when it was good with my friends enjoying i nice cup of hot chocolate when this storm came in.
Ah, the good ol' days. Back when the weather channel could make it more than 4 minutes without a commercial break, 24 hours without showing 10 reruns of 'Storm Stories,' and they didn't name major blizzards after clownfish from Pixar movies.
I wish it was 1996 everthing was better back then!
welcome to 2021
I wish it was "11 years ago" everything was better back then!
I was a senior in high school in 1996. The Blizzard of 1996 cancelled school for the entire week forcing the school system to cancel mid-terms exam that we studying for the week before the blizzard hit. The theme for our yearbook that year was "Braving the Elements"
I was in 11th grade and sister was in 9th. Her best friend, who I was in love with got stuck at our house for a couple days during this storm
Here in Philly the meteorologists kept changing the snow totals from 10-18 inches before the storm started to at least 30 before the storm ended. Shows you how unpredictable the weather is and how wrong the computer forecast can be, even today.
32 inch snowfall and up to 6 foot snow drifts I was only 8 years old when this hit and I'll never forget it
Ah, when the weather channel was the weather channel.
*****
NBC Universal Weather Channel
Well...yeah. But the format is different.
***** More like the "Comcast Weather Channel", now that NBC Universal is a division of Comcast. I agree with everyone here, that The Weather Channel was at its best during its Landmark Communications years.
yes right
One of the reason why I looked this up lol
Hell of a storm. I lived in Central NJ when that happened. The 93 storm had way worse wind, but this one was a snow nightmare. Where we were, we got like 3 feet of snow with 6 foot drifts. Between my dad and me, we had to go out every hour to clear the driveway. By the time we were done clearing it, there was an inch or two where we started. Absolutely incredible.
I remember the Blizzard of 1996 very well! When I opened our front door I was greeted by a two foot wall of snow! It took my brother and I literally the whole day to dig us out. We piled snow so high next to one of our trees that it reached the top branches.
1996 was the year that sparked my love for weather; first the blizzard of 96,then I moved to NC that summer and Hurricane Fran came a couple months later.
I remember this blizzard well. We got 37” in Morris County NJ.
It took my 12 year old an hour just to shovel the front steps.
They declared a state of emergency and no one went anywhere for 3 days.
That storm was something. It took nearly a week before schools reopened.
I remember this storm, we had just moved to VA. Where we lived we got over 40 inches!
I remember this...very well. I believe we had 33 inches of snow where I was in southeast PA (northwest of Phila.). I was 25 then, and I remember not being able to get in the front door to my wife and I's apartment. The snow drifts were even higher! I still have pictures of our cars buried under the snow. Moved to southeast GA just a few months after, but I still miss the Philadelphia area, especially WPVI Channel 6 Action News with Jim Gardner! Grew up watching him, Marc Howard, (the late) Jim O'Brien, Rob Jennings, Lisa Thomas-Laurie, Chris Wagner, Dave Roberts, (the late) Gary Papa, Don Tollefson...the list of talent from the Action News team is endless!
damn i remember this like it was yesterday i was 10. I remember having off from school like two weeks this winter. We had so many snow storms it was crazy. SHit i wish i could go back to this year everything was so much better.
I lived in DC at the time. I remember sliding around Dupont circle. So fun!
Ah the storm were Doug Hill from channel 7 D.c. said that the storm moved out to sea and us up here in frederick will only get 1-3" of snow. Boy was he wrong ,we got 36+" of snow . And then get on the air and said we must have misunderstood him lol
33 inches where I was in Maple Shade, NJ. I lived in an apartment complex and because of the way the wind was whipping around the buildings, my truck was completely clear of any snow after the storm, but the parking lot was blocked off by 5 or 6 foot drifts so I couldn't go anywhere anyway.
One full week off from school..Never saw any storm like this since..
I have so many memories of this storm. I was 15-16 years old and use two pairs of socks as gloves. Smoked some goods green and went down Beacon fuckin Hill. LOL the good ole days.
Childhood memories! Classic 'Weather Channel' moments! I miss those days!
Got a request for TWC hear me out please bring back the trammell starks music & other smooth jazz music from the 90's that ya'll played during the "local on the 8's" weather forecast back in days you all can least do me that favor....
I remember that winter very well living in Massachusetts at the time, I was 13 back then, that was a very snowy winter that year it even snowed into April that year, The school year went into the end of June that year with so many snow days.
Loool my mom had to carry me everywhere because the snow was so deep! Ahh my childhood
This was early 1996 i believe cause i was in my last months as a senior in high school i really miss the 1990's...
The best is yet to come
I wasn't born then but i just herd of this storm and now i know a lot about it. I learned that my town had a crazy amount of snow.
I live in Philadelphia. I don't remember what year it was but the Blizzard hit so hard we were out of School for 3 weeks. We had to make up days well into July.
I like how Bruce mentions some moderate to heavy snows in Northern New Jersey. I live in North-Central New Jersey. I think my school was canceled that Monday, but re-opened on Tuesday. I miss those days when I would watch TWC during winter to see if any winter storm would be significant enough to close school. Sometimes, it would and I would be happy. Other times, not so much, though occasionally there were delayed openings for minor winter storms. Good old days. Sigh...
35 inches of Snow in Manassas Va and five days in the house with nothing to do but shovel Snow.remember it well.
Good thing I got the update!!!!!!
it was the best sledding ever❄🌬 ⛄
I remember this I was living in Virginia and I was. A teenager about 13 years old at the time we had no school over a week I remember 93 storm to
i jumped off my roof into about 7 feet of snow drift in my driveway. incredible storm.
@bobywade517 no ipad anything, no damn gps, no texting, real people with real conversations....today we'd fall on our faces without it...
amazing how many of these huge storms hit sunday night into monday...i been keeping track since the 70s and i say 75 -80 percent of the real big ones hit sun sunnight into monday
Mike Edwards storm systems are like clockwork and I've noticed that myself since the mid 90s. I was born in '87.
I was born in only 2004! And even I have been noticing that as well.
in 2019, i still remember this
I remember this, was in January, I owned a 1987 Plymouth Duster poor thing was buried to the roof in my driveway, took forever to dig it out.
I was in 7th grade when this happened. We had 2 or 3 days off from school! I think this winter we have now is the worst since 96! We've had 3 or 4 back to back snow storms and the old snow hasn't melted yet! I cant wait for winter to be over! I HATE THIS!
Not quite as much as the 93 Superstorm, I had over a foot here in SE KY during the great 96 Blizzard, just a kid but remember it well. Also, the 95-96 season is still rank #1 snowiest season here throughout East KY ❄❄❄
I live in NYC and this happened to my grandma and grandpa
The last NTC snow day I think was the 1978 Blizzard from February 1978
vivian brown is still on the weather channel
This storm I remember most as a kid,,,, in CT we built a snow fort n had a good Ol time having snowball fights w the neighbors
east coast havent seen any snow except in october when we had the freak snowstorm...
@bobywade517 alot of things were if you get rid of the snow part. but cant say this year stunk if going with the snow since it was better this year than 96 depending on where you are.
I was 9 and was able to make an igloo with just the snow that fell as it fell no pilling up a mound just started digging into the 5+ feet high snow
I agree. This was great coverage of the blizzard. They had some good OCM's back then who gave the network a more respectable image. Today it seems more magazine/tabloidish.
i remember we didnt go to school for like 3 weeks all i was doing playing video games old school nes and snes
Vivian Brown is still on TWC, but what happened to Bruce Edwards and Jill Brown (any relation to Vivian, same last name)?
Man that is so damn true oh it's TRUE IT'S TRUE IT'S VERY TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Flyersfan1975 This storm headed in now looks like the blizzard of 96 that was aimed right at Philly. In Philly now, snowing HARD!
I lived in Massachusetts at the time. I remember being very young I was 5 and a lot of snow and even a couple lightning strikes. Worst snowstorm I ever saw.
Jill Brown 😍😍😍
@justintime2989 Oh Yeah. The 2010 blizzard was EPIC!!!!!!!! My town got 28 inches of snow!!!!!! school was out for 3 days!!
At 1:55 - Did Bruce Edwards say, "thanks Jerry", to Jill Brown?
yea twc took a shyt , i use to look forward to turning on twc in the winter .
THere expecting a major snowstorm here in Detroit tuesday!
I was born in this blizzard :o
28.5" from February 5-6 2010
Chris L I got 28" from January 22-24 2016
@domirules28 nothing like the pres blizzard of 03 48inches in northern nj we had no school for about 2 weeks
Does anyone know if this was the same system that moved through the Kansas city metro January 4th into January 5th 1996?
I just seen the date January 8th which means this was that storm!
My mom remember this
@cedarpaw23 Me too, I was 7 months old and I live in one of the places where it happened and my parents told me we were stuck in our house with all my grandparents.
Back when TWC was my favorite channel, No naming winter storms, No politics and GW BS
This is the snowstorm where I farted in the bathtub!
I was a baby when this happeped.
Today we get so many snowdays in NYC it's not even funny. (Yes it is!)
Vivian brown what ever happened to her I miss her
so I moved from New Orleans (average snowfall...once about every 7-8 yrs) to Philly in June 95, the blizzard hits and I'm living in an apartment. Well I was so fascinated by the storm that I kept leaving and driving around in it filming on my camcorder. My girlfriend kept telling me "their saying to stay indoors". Well since I kept moving my truck, by the time I was done for the evening, I parked in one of the clear parking spots the plow had cleared. So the next morning all of my neighbors were wondering why I didn't have 3 feet of snow to dig out. LOL silly Yankees.
years before weather channel became an entertainment and news channel when NBC bought it in 2008. I prefer watching the standard def version of the weather channel as well as weatherscan which is great although i prefer following weather NJ on facebook for weather reports. Forecasters are always wrong. Will this week's snowstorm be bigger than this blizzard? I don't know...
@bobywade517 computers were'nt and they certainly were'nt 2 years ago when you posted this....
God damn the weather channel is CIA
good rittens!!
@Bigkilluminati i had just turned 6 on january 7th, but i was in the south.
I was only 2 in `96
@bloodymeerkat78 i was 6 i dont rember it at all still errrr. but i do rember weather events from hurricane floyed on and best blizzard id have to say was the last blizzard of 2010.
Back well before they started goofily naming winter storms. Tropical systems should only have names. Blizzard of whatever year is just enough. These storms are not as damaging and rememberable as a hurricane.
@Albanynyer84 I agree with you 100%.
3 weeks of no elementary school baby!!!!! miss the 90s
@bobywade517 yeah except the clothes lol
@justintime2989 Ah i had much more fun in the 90s dude i was a kid. I miss those times watching nickelodeon when it was good with my friends enjoying i nice cup of hot chocolate when this storm came in.
i was 5 in jan of 96 ny sister remembers i do not lol
This looks like Jonas
TWC doesn't recognize Baltimore as an American city..
nobody really talks about this one, it's all about 78, I wasn't around for that, but was around for this, looks like it wasn't nearly as bad as 78
@MNweatherGuy lmfao yes
Jack and jill went up a hill and Trump got the kids BACK
@justintime2989 Wyandanch,Long Island
Fast and furious
this was nothing compared to the super storm of march 13, 1993
Eh, where I lived the SuperStorm was a super bust.
this storm gives me a chubby
Ahh... the weather channel before liberals, progressives, and the DemocRAT party took it over. I miss the old days!!
+Mike smith lol@ blaming just them. They are just on the left side of the same crap coin.
And the list of ridiculous things blamed on Democrats gains another. I hate the uneducated majority in America. SMH
Scott Reese For some reason, people on the right blame every ill in this nation on democrats and/or liberals as if their crap doesn't stink.
It's because, by in large, they are uneducated loud and bigoted. Not all.... but the loudest among them are.
Why does everything that changes in the name of progressive technology have to be speculated to be politically motivated?? 😑😒
please. its weather. they still report the same shit.
Blizzard of 96,the year when meteorologist's and Walmart CEO realized if they work together they will make billions..
I was born in this blizzard :o