The Buckeye State was caught in the icy throes of a full-fledged Arctic blizzard before dawn. Travel nearly come to a standstill. A stranded ore carrier in Lake Erie recorded sustained winds of 86 mph, and a gust of 111 mph (National Weather Service, Wilmington, Ohio). The lowest barometric pressure in the state tumbled to 28.28 inches at Cleveland.Īfter the rain turned to windswept snow, temperatures plummeted into the single digits. The wind peaked at 69 mph at Columbus and 82 mph at Cleveland. 26, while tracking from Portsmouth and Cleveland with the barometric pressure tumbling to an all-time record-low Category 3 hurricane level of 28.47 inches at Columbus. The winter cyclone deepened explosively between midnight and 4 a.m. Still, the prospect of a such a dramatic change in the weather in Ohio was beyond comprehension. 25, over eastern Tennessee and Kentucky, as two pieces of upper-level energy merged. The storm intensified on the night of Jan. Meanwhile, the comparatively primitive computer models pointed to a developing winter storm in the northern Gulf of Mexico that was expected to turn north. At midnight, the mercury still stood near 40 degrees, with light rain and little wind. ![]() The temperature rose to 41 degrees in Columbus, and less than an inch (0.65) of rain fell. 25, 1978, hardly suggested a winter storm of historic proportions was brewing a thousand miles away in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone living in Ohio during the winter of 1977-78 has stories to tell about the great blizzard.
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