At a Glance

Winter 2017-18 had its share of high-end snowstorms.This included multiple nor'easters, particularly in March.There were also a number of southern snow and ice events from December into January.

The winter season of 2017-18 had its share of memorable moments.

Multiple powerhouse East Coast snowstorms, particularly in March, Southern snow all the way to the Gulf Coast, record-smashing cold snaps for two different times of yearand even a destructive snowstorm just a few days into October – this snow season had a bit of everything.

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Here are the images, photos and video that left the strongest impression on us, in chronological order, starting with a blizzard just after the calendar turned to October.

A Destructive Blizzard Just After Summer Ended

Less than two weeks after summer officially ended, the Rockies and adjacent High Plains were clobbered by a blizzard.

In 24 hours, Havre, Montana, was buried by 13 inches of snow, setting an all-time 24-hour record for the northern Montana city.

Wind gusts to 50 mph and the wet, heavy snow downed numerous branches and trees, blocking roads and knocking out power to the city and surrounding area.

Area storm spotter Josh Millerchronicled . were seen more than a week after the storm, Miller tweeted.

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Winter Storm Benji's Southern Snow Swath

Snowfall caused by Winter Storm Benji from southern Texas into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast over a three day period ending at 7 AM EST on Dec. 10, 2017. Snowfall seen in the Great Lakes, Midwest and interior Northeast was not caused by Benji.

(NOAA/NOHRSC)

In early December, Winter Storm Benji spread a swath of snow in areas you wouldn't expect, from far southern Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and even the Florida Panhandle.

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Snow Blankets Harvey Rubble

If or only the didn't grab your attention with Winter Storm Benji, consider the strange sight of snow accumulating on piles of debris left over from Hurricane Harvey in Rockport, Texas.

We hadn't seen anything like that since the .

A Surreal Wintry Southern Capital

Despite many other notables, the one image that arguably captured us the most during Winter Storm Benji was this spectacular aerial photo by Zander Williamson of Jackson, Mississippi, after five inches of snow had fallen the previous day, Dec. 8.

It was the , according to the National Weather Service.

A Very Erie Christmas

A neighborhood in Erie, Pennsylvania, is buried in snow on Dec. 26, 2017, after a lake-effect snowstorm.

(Instagram/ethanoertly)

While the final snowfall total is, as of this writing, still being examined, there is no doubt it was a Christmas snowstorm to remember in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Among all the , thephoto above posted the day after Christmas was emblematic of the event.

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A Florida Snow and Ice Map

Less than a month after Benji blanketed the Deep South, laid down a swath of snow and ice in, yes, North Florida and South Georgia on Jan. 3.

The snow and ice total map from the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, picturedabove, was one of the few, if notthe only, map showing ice accumulation in North Florida that we can remember.

Grayson was the .

Charleston's Historic District as You've Probably Never Seen It

Winter Storm Grayson blanketed Charleston, South Carolina, with snow on Jan. 3, 2018.

(Skye Giordano)

Winter Storm Grayson went on to blanket the Lowcountry of South Carolina with one of the region's heaviest snowfalls in decades.

Charleston's 5.3 inches of snow on Jan. 3 was the city's heaviest calendar-day snow in 29 years and its third-heaviest one-day snow on record.

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Coastal Flooding Topped 'Blizzard of '78'

Grayson then unleashed its fury on the Northeast.

Among its numerous impacts, this intense offshore low – more on that later – unleashed a record storm tide at Boston Harbor, topping the infamous Blizzard of '78. Grayson sent water pouring over the Long Wharf, then surging into streets in the city's Fort Point neighborhood.

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Grayson's Explosive Bombogenesis

Arguably, what grabbed meteorologists' attention the most with Grayson was its intensity off the Northeast seaboard. Specifically, it was how fast the offshore low-pressure center intensified.

Grayson's 59-millibar pressure drop off in just 24 hours off Cape Cod for a non-tropical cyclone inthis area of the western Atlantic Ocean.

The low's pressure bottomed out at an estimated 950 millibars, according to NOAA's Weather Prediction Center – much stronger (lower pressure) than recent notorious Northeast storms such as Nemo (February 2013), Juno (January 2015) and Stella (March 2017).

A Massive Debris Flow

It wasn't only snow, iceor cold that was memorable about Winter 2017-18.

On Jan. 9, torrential rain running off hilly terrain earlier charred by the Thomas Fire, the , sent a massive flow of mud and debris through the town of Montecito, just east of Santa Barbara, claiming 21 lives.

Among the and , video of a completely water- and mud-choked 101 Freeway in Montecito was particularly jarring, resembling in some ways the scenes in Houston during either Harvey or Allison, instead of Southern California.

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Buried, Even By Alps Standards

Heavy snow in the Alps is a mainstay every winter. Winter 2017-18, however,was on another level.

We could have picked a number of jaw-dropping photos or video from the siege of heavy snow which pummeled the Alps,especially in January. But the pictures coming out of the French resort of, said to be , left the biggest impression.

. To walk through the massive snow piles, alleys needed to be dug.

It was no laughing matter.

The feet of snow blocked roads, knocked out power, and in France, northern Italyand Switzerland.

Swiss avalancheforecasterFrank Techelsaid the amount of snow this year has been "extraordinary," the Associated Press reported.

Atlanta's Freeways Deserted

The photo above was taken during rush hour on a Wednesday morning along Interstate 285 on the north side of the Atlanta metro area.

blanketed Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport with 2.3 inches of snowJan. 16-17,shutting down schools, triggering major delays at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airportand making roads treacherous.

Atlanta's "Main Street," during the storm.

It's a sight Atlantans have come to know well in recent years, especially after left the city's freeways a clogged mess of abandoned vehicles.

Alaska Coastal Flood

Waves pummel the coast of Little Diomede Island, Alaska, on Feb. 20, 2018. A record lack of ice cover left the tiny island in the middle of the Bering Sea open to pounding surf from a late February storm.

(Carla Ahkvaluk via NOAA)

Perhaps the most disturbing thing we saw this winter was from one of the most remote places in the United States.

not seen in records dating to 1850, coupled with a larger number of storms in the region, led to destructive coastal flooding.

Chief among these was , in the Bering Strait between Russia and the Alaskan mainland.

In late February, a sprawling storm whipped up large waves over the Bering Sea and drove pounding surf along the island's ice-free shoreline, damaging the water treatment plant, knocking out powerand covering the beach and helipad with large chunks of ice.

Alaskan-based meteorologistRick Thomannoted .

The six-month period ending April 23in America's northernmost town, Utqiagvik, Alaska, crushed the previous warmest such period by3 degrees Fahrenheit.

A of departure-from-average temperatures in three northern Alaska cities tweeted by Thoman on April 5 was particularly jarring.

Multiple Blizzards

In this Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, file photo provided by the Montana Department of Transportation, crews work to clear Secondary Highway 464 north of Browning, Montana.

(Montana Department of Transportation via AP)

We mentioned Montana's early-fall snowstorm. The winter would get even worse, even in this area accustomed to harsh winters.

From Feb. 12 to 27, the National Weather Service in nearby Great Falls, Montana,issued for parts of the immediate Rocky Mountain Front east of Glacier National Park covering for either blizzard or ground blizzard (no falling snow, just blowing snow) conditions.

Thisincessant February siegeleft, isolating the towns of Babb, Heart Butte and Starr School, which .

The photo above is something we typically see over mountain passes such as on the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, not on the Plains.

Four'easters

Composite of the four nor'easters of March 2018.

(Image source: NOAA/RAMMB/CIRA)

This is the image we would select as the most iconic of Winter 2017-18if we were forced to pick just one.

Four nor'easters in three weeks brought misery to millions along the Eastern Seaboard in March while also giving meteorologistsdéjà vu when examining each stormon satellite imagery.

The nor'easters can be seen in the image above taken March 2 (), March 7 (), March 13 () and March 21 ().

Incredibly, near the end of March to join the fearsome foursome from earlier in the month.

Xanto's Huge Snow Piles – in April

Given was a record-smashing spring snowstorm in parts of the Upper Midwest, its probably no surprise the snowstorm left behind some incredible sights.

Even by northeastern Wisconsin standards, the need to tunnel pathways to the front door was quite a sight for mid-April.

, much of the snow cover from and following right on its heelshad melted as temperatures soared into the 60s and 70s.

Where April Was Colder Than Alaska

Perhaps the most insightful perspective on a was provided by Dr. Brian Brettschneider, aclimatologist at the Western Regional Climate Center.

Brettschneider's analysis found a sizable swath of the northern tier of the Lower 48 states, from the northern Rockies to northern New England, were colder than either Anchorage or Fairbanks, Alaska, in the first half of April.

For example, daytime highs in Minneapolis/St. Paul failed to rise above freezing in eight of the first 15 days of April. Fairbanks only failed to do so fiveof those days.

This seemeda fitting end to a rather extraordinary season of winter weather in 2017-18.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7. Follow him on and and subscribe to .