Before Christmas 2022, this was the signature blizzard in Buffalo, even with modest snowfall. Here's how it happened.

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 ...

A 1977 photograph of Buffalo police officers, from left, Duane "Dewey" Bonamici, John O'Rourk and George Smith, with keys collected from stranded motorists during the Blizzard of '77.

If anybody out there has any photos, press articles, or recollection of this event, please share with me. Tallahassee resident Franz Dorn remembers a snowfall from Feb. 16, 1977.

Beginning on Jan. 28, 1977, the Blizzard of ’77 effectively shut down the area for several weeks. This photo was submitted several years ago by Virginia Temple of Batavia and showed efforts to ...