Talk:Blizzard
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The picture has moved to its own page, but I don't see in the history where it happened. Was this intentional to save loading time? If so, the link ought to say "click here for a blizzard scene". Or was it accidental? In which case it should be restored. I haven't ever "done" a picture, so I'm reluctant to experiment here. Ortolan88
The German Wikipedia suggests that the word "Blizzard" may be derived from German "blitzartig" (=(fast) like lightning). A Google-search lead to contradictory results, so I didn't add it to the article. Does someone know more about this?
I am mailing the question to Merriam-Webster's language research service. I'll keep you updated. --Munchkinguy 19:45, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
According to Merriam-Webster, the word Blizzard was invented in northwestern Iowa between 1860 and 1870. The origin is unknown. --Munchkinguy 00:03, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Pending the outcome of Munchkinguy's research, I have trimmed the text relating to the origin of the word, and added a link to a relevant entry in an online etymology dictionary. Good luck. - mjb 17:43, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The graph made me very interested in the damaging "superstorm of 1983"- but Wikipedia doens't have an article on it... is the year correct or does there just happen to be no article? -samaraphile
Could we get a mention of the Blizzard of 2003? That was impressive, and caused some damage as well. (store roof collapses, DIA terminal roof collapse, travelers on cots in DIA, etc.)
I'd like to see an article for a non-US blizzard. The UK was virtually brought to a standstill with the one in January 2003, and there was very heavy snow in Scotland in December 1995, the coldest December since 1981. BillyH 06:40, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This article got kinda screwed up after vandalism
You'll notice that the article looked like this:
Then someone vandalized it and took some stuff out during their vandalization including the bottom half of the article. When the article was devandalized the bottom half was never returned. While I admit that the bottom half of the article wasn't the greatest, it was written by a student of mine (5th grade) and am sad to see it go.
It may be nice to ad one of those fancy tables that includes famous america blizzards (or it's own page) with damages, feet of snow, date, etc
[edit] Possible Troll
Why is the word "MONKEY" at the bottom of this?
I believe that the graph meant to display 1993 storm, not 1983.
[edit] Vandalism
Please watch this page for vandalism and revert any negative changes
A Blizzard can also be a strong wind current with blowing or falling snow.
I assume this referes to the general action of blowing and drifting snow, if so this has been mentioned here [[[1]]]
