How frequent do blizzards occur in a year?

Question

How frequent do blizzards occur in a year?

Answer 1

Depends on where you live.  In Indiana blizzards are rare, in Colorado they are very frequnt.  Florida probably never gets a blizzard.

Answer 2

Well, they usually only happen in the winter time, so definitely not usually in the other three seasons... HOWEVER... there was a snow (I do not know if it was a blizzard) in July the year that General Custer was wiped out, and he lost half of his indigenous scouts who took the snow as a bad omen.  I guess they were right?

A blizzard is a "snow storm", as opposed to the weather simply snowing.  It is a large-snowflake inundation of continual snowing, often with a breeze or wind.  Those kind of snows are infrequent because they are the "large snows" as a large storm.  Large storms generally do not happen frequently, no more than about two in one month, but they can be once per week, according to weather conditions.

It is hard to say how often and how strong blizzards are.  The name originated by a newspaper in Iowa who used the term for the first time back in the late 1800s.  I think it came from their using the term "blitz" and added the suffix "ard" to designate it as a topic.

HOWEVER, it also depends on where the snow occurs!  Blizzards can happen more fequently in the mountains, yet, they also happen in the midwest and in the east!  One blizzard happened when a very late hurricane gail turned into snow on the eastern seaboard about ten or so years ago, and New York City had its record blizzard record shattered by it!