The National Weather Service calls the storm “life-threatening,” “once-in-a-generation,” and “crippling”. A blizzard warning remains in effect until Christmas morning. The storm is tied to an exceptionally intense mid-latitude storm or “bomb cyclone”. That storm was almost entirely a ground blizzard, with little snowfall. January 1977 was the third snowiest month in the city’s history, with more than 90 inches falling.
