30 years later: Looking back on the Blizzard of 1993

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh saw a little bit of snow on Monday, but it’s nothing like what we saw 30 years ago when the Blizzard of 1993 hit.

Snow began falling on Friday, March 12, 1993, just before midnight.

By daybreak on March 13, about a foot of snow was on the ground.

Still, the St. Patrick’s Day parade went on as scheduled as the storm continued.

Pittsburgh set a record for the greatest one-day snowfall of all time, coming in at 23.5 inches.

Meteorologist Stephanie Allison asked viewers for photos of that epic day. Cathy Abercrombie and her granddaughter, Sadie, found photos of cars buried in snow.

There was so much snow and nowhere for it to go. Most people just cleared a path from their door to the street to dig their cars out.

The reason we call that storm the Blizzard of 1993 and not a snowstorm was because of the conditions that day. Hours and hours of blowing snow and reduced visibility is what made that storm a blizzard.

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