It was nice over the weekend, but it was only a week or so ago that a little snow fell in Northeast Ohio.
While the concept of the weather being completely nuts seems like a relatively new trend, it's something that's been happening for a while. Case in point: check out the front page of the Lorain Journal from May 1, 1963 shown above, to revisit kooky weather from sixty years ago this month.
"Howling winds and snow squalls blasted Lorain County Tuesday night jarring spring with subfreezing temperatures and whitening the ground," noted the article. "Ohio Edison officials said today service was interrupted in Lorain and Sheffield Lake when winds gusting to 40 miles an hour played havoc with the electric wires.
"A mass of cold air moving across the Buckeye state late Tuesday sent readings below freezing in all except the extreme southeast counties.
"Snow was seen this morning on the roofs of many Lorain cars and houses.
"Hot wires popped and sizzled for about two hours shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday at Lake Rd. and Irving Park, Sheffield Lake.
"Sheffield Lake police reported large plate glass windows were blown out at Brownie's Market, 5260 E. Lake Rd., and at the Lawson store at 4282 E. Lake Rd."
Well, at least Brownie's is still around.
Elsewhere on the front page: a woman flies her small plane from California to Hawaii alone, making history; Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro visits Soviet Premier Khrushchev on May Day and watches the annual parade on Red Square; two Cleveland labor unions picket in front of Jay's Sparkle Market at 3817 Oberlin Avenue in an effort to organize the store's 22 employees; and the Employees' Transit Lines, Inc. celebrated its 25th anniversary of providing bus service to the community.
I remember that storm. We got 4+ inches over in the snow belt of Pennsylyuck.
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