Coldest, snowiest days in Lawrence history / LJWorld.com

Coldest, snowiest days in Lawrence history

The interactive timeline below shows the:

Top five single-day snow totals in Lawrence history
Top five coldest days in Lawrence history
Top five single-day snow totals in Lawrence since 1991

Historical winter weather in Lawrence, Kansas on Dipity.

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true_patriot 2 years, 3 months ago

It's missing some events, like the heavy snowfalls of the early 1980's and the devastating ice storms we've had - one was in 2002 I believe and there was at least one other in the 10 to 20 years prior.

ChristineMetz 2 years, 3 months ago

Hi True Patriot, This data just reflects single-day snow totals, so it won't have the cumulative totals for snowstorms that fell over a multiple of days. We probably missed the 1980s because the storms weren't big enough to be included in the top five all time snow fall events (the latest for those was 1942). And, it was right before the 20 year period we looked at. And, we didn't look at ice storms at all. Hope that helps. Christine Metz Reporter Lawrence Journal-World

true_patriot 2 years, 3 months ago

Nod, I figured as much, was just hoping you could add those events so it wouldn't look so weird to those of us that remember them and to give newcomers a better picture of historical weather events.

There was a winter sometime in the early 80's that had snow piled up at least as deep as this - there were 15 foot high piles of snow in parking lots and Tennessee Street street parking was an insane mess for several days. People got stuck constantly.

We've had a few major ice storms in recent memory, and the one in 2002 resulted in widespread power outages, huge limbs and trees down, destruction to property, etc. It may also have closed KU for consecutive days (a rare occurrence indeed), can't recall for sure. It definitely stands out as one of Lawrence's major winter weather events though.