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America’s Coldest Winter Ever - 1993

March 12th, 1993 wasn't just a storm. It was a hurricane with snow. In the Deep South, flowers were blooming one day and buried under record-breaking drifts the next. Barometric pressure plunged to 960 millibars lower than a Category 3 hurricane creating a whiteout that stretched from Cuba to Canada. Birmingham looked like the Arctic. Hikers in the Smokies were trapped by 14-foot drifts. Ten million people lost power, huddled around radios in a pre-internet world. This is the story of the Storm of the Century, the blizzard that brought the South to its knees, and the weekend the 90s stood still. Sources: NOAA (National Centers for Environmental Information): On This Day: The 1993 Storm of the Century (Verifies pressure readings and the 10 million outage figure). National Weather Service (NWS): Superstorm of 1993 (Verifies snowfall records in Alabama and the Appalachians).