The bar is high for historic snowstorms in a lake-effect snowbelt city such as Buffalo, New York. On Jan. 30, 1977, 48 years ago today, parts of New York and southern Ontario were in the midst of one ...

Forty years removed, it’s still evident if you think about it — despite all the death, destruction and jokes, Buffalonians enjoyed the Blizzard of '77. On the storm’s first anniversary, University at ...

John O'Rourk, retired from the Buffalo Police Department, at the Tifft Street ramp to Route 5 and the Skyway. During the great blizzard of 1977, O'Rourk and his partner, George Smith, helped many ...

Wednesday morning, with those factors in place, meteorologists at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport ruled this storm is indeed a blizzard, only the sixth in greater Buffalo since the one of ...