In 1835 this date saw cold waves envelope New England.

Hartford, Conn., saw the temperature drop 23 degrees below zero.

In the Berkshire Mountains of Connecticut, the mercury hit negative 40!

Record-breaking cold moved across much of the nation in 1884.

Denver, Colo., and Omaha, Neb., bottomed out at 32 degrees below each.

The Gateway City -- Saint Louis -- shivered at negative 22.

The Northeast experienced some of its all-time coldest temperatures with readings of minus 34 at River Vale, N.J., and minus 42 in Smethport, Penn.

We jump ahead almost 100 years for our next big weather event.

In 1982, 36 people died and more than 300 million dollars in damage was done during a three-day rainstorm in the San Francisco area.

Up to 25 inches of rain fell and snowfall accumulations of up to eight feet were recorded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Eleven years later, Hawaii faced 100 mph winds that downed ice laden power lines!

Up to 18 inches of ice accumulated on the summit of Maui’s Mount Haleakala.

In 1998, the ice came back to the mainland in one of the worst storms in United States history.

Up to three inches of ice coated a large area from New England into Canada.

56 people died and there was $1 billion in damage.

At one point during the storm, 4 million people were without electricity.

The following year, the new all-time record low for the state of Illinois was established at Congerville when the mercury bottomed out at 36 degrees below zero.

Blizzard is not a term used loosely by meteorologists, but over the centuries it has been used several times on January 6th.

In 1880, Seattle’s greatest snowstorm dumped up to 48 inches of snow on the city.

Buildings were destroyed and transportation ground to a halt.

Six years later came the great blizzard of 1886.

It hit the Midwest with high winds, subzero temperatures and heavy snowfall that caused as many as 100 deaths.

In Kansas, the snowstorm killed up to 80 percent of the cattle herd.

In 1988, heavy snow fell from Oklahoma to Virginia.

Arkansas recorded their largest snowstorm of this century with 16 inches at Heber Springs.

Macon County, N.C., saw up to 20 inches of snow.

Eight years later came the blizzard of ‘96.

It killed 100 people and caused two billion dollars in damages.

Many major cities in the Northeast set new snowfall records.

20 inches of snow accumulated in New York's Central Park, making it the 3rd biggest snowfall ever there.

The nation's capital ground to a halt thanks to 25 inches of snow.

The blizzard theme has continued through the years on January 7th.

In 1821, people in Baltimore, Md., and New York had to shovel 14 inches of snow.

The total was 18 inches in Philadelphia, P.A., and a full foot in Washington, D.C.

The pioneer blizzard struck in 1873. Many pioneers in Minnesota and Iowa died as a result of the snow and cold.

40 years later, Tucson, Ariz., set an all-time record low.

The temperature was a perfect zero degrees.

And in 1971, Arizona recorded the coldest temperature ever for the entire state.

The honor went to Hawler Lake, Ariz., with 40 degrees below zero.

Atlanta, Ga., suffered through a major ice storm in 1973.

In just two hours, 2.27 inches of liquid equivalent precipitation fell.

At the same time, the temperature hovered at the freezing point.

Schools and businesses were closed for several days and more than 300,000 people had no electricity!

A winter storm hit the south in 1988, killing millions of chickens in Alabama. It dumped 27 inches of snow in the bad creek area of South Carolina and blanketed the Little Rock, Ark., airport with just over a foot of snow.

The next year, a rare F-4 tornado touched down in Allendale, ill.

A large part of the town was decimated.

The twister was part of a small outbreak of storms created as record warmth moved across the nation.

In 1992, it was back to the cold!

An intense blizzard buried eastern metro Denver with up to two feet of snow.

Strong winds piled the snow into drifts four to eight feet high. I-70 and i-25 were closed to the east and south of the city.

Five years later, New Mexico and Arizona experienced an unusual snowstorm.

Up to 3 feet of snow fell on the Sandia peaks, which tower over the eastern suburbs of Albuquerque, N.M.

In Tucson, Ariz., there were reports of as much as 2 feet of snow on some of the highest peaks.

They were the first snowflakes Tucson had seen since March 16, 1991.

And that is your week in weather history for January 6th.