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md a ridiculous 10 in ■’ensacola, Ra. The frosty veather meant millions of iollars in losses for Rorida :itrus, vegetable, and tourism ndustries.
Along with record-setting :old came firsts in snowfall. On Jan 31 snow rested on part of every state of the xmtiguous 48 for the first time on record, writes rhomas Y. Canby in the National Geographic. Never had snow fallen as far south as Miami, and never in 10 j'ears of satellite observation tiad it covered so much of the Northern Hemisphere.
In Miami and Palm Beach, lanuary sunseekers stared in disbelief at the flakes floating down. In Buffalo it snowed For five straight days. By season’s end, 200 inches had fallen there.
“The blizzard hit while 1 was returning from a trip out of the city,” a 65-year-old Buffalo cabby said. ”... 1 made it to a jam-packed pizzeria and stood all night next to an oven. Next day I reached a firehouse, where I could sleep on the floor. The third day I got home."
While the East shoveled, the West cried out for more snow Lack of snowfall in the Rockies closed ski resort after resort in Colorado, adding up to a S78 million loss for the ski industry. Bears in Alaska came out of hibernation in the balmy winter, and Anchorage schools canceled hockey games because of slush.
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