The bar is high for historic snowstorms in a lake-effect snowbelt city such as Buffalo, New York. On Jan. 30, 1977, 48 years ago today, parts of New York and southern Ontario were in the midst of one ...

George Smith has seen some monster snowfalls in Western New York. A little more than two years ago, when parts of the region received up to seven feet of snow in an almost unimaginable November storm, ...

The recent bitter cold weather prompted me to once again think back nearly 50 years ago. January 1977 was a record-setter. This January has been bitterly cold at times, with temperatures only climbing ...

On Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1977, at approximately 6:30 a.m., I awoke to a day of much surprise. At first, everything was normal, but the weather report confirmed my belief that an Arctic front was passing ...

The winter of 2011-12 has been relatively tame so far, but things were much different 35 years ago today, when a storm of epic proportions swept into the area. Beginning on Jan. 28, 1977, the Blizzard ...

But the blizzard of Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, 1977, remains the storm against which all other future storms will be judged, according to an informal survey of meteorologists with the Buffalo office of the ...

John O'Rourk, retired from the Buffalo Police Department, at the Tifft Street ramp to Route 5 and the Skyway. During the great blizzard of 1977, O'Rourk and his partner, George Smith, helped many ...

The blizzard was different, the rare event when words cannot fully do it justice. It was not a storm so much as a natural assault. The most brutal winter in Buffalo history seemed to come together in ...