In the reading of Death on the Prairies: The Murderous Blizzard of 1888 many people suffered from the monstrous blizzard on the 12th of January 1888 also known as the
Schoolchildren's blizzard due to so many of the victims were kids caught on their way home from school. These weather occurrences happened in the states of Dakota and Nebraska but many more states that are a part of the Great Plaines. This blizzard occurred to date around 126 years ago. Back then around this time, which is after the civil war more than one million people poured onto the Great Plaines from the Great Lakes states. People were shocked by its violent shifts in the weather, no one would have thought that the weather would get worst forty degrees below zero conditions…show more content… The weather that was predicted for that day was issued by a weatherman from the local weather bureau said "A series of cold waves are indicated for Nebraska and Dakota tonight and tomorrow, the snow will drift heavily today and tomorrow in Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin."
January 11, strengthen the depth of the ground and dropped from the south out of Alberta,
Canada on into the central Montana and then into north Colorado by the morning of January
12th. The temperatures in advance of the low increased some 20 – 40 degrees in the central plains. They also said that the temperature had went up to 28 degrees by 7 am. On January 12 the strong rapid moved up in the southeastern Nebraska the evening time and on January 12th finally into the southwestern part of Wisconsin that night that same day. After few hours later the cold front caused the temperature drop a few degrees above freezing to 20 degrees below. This strong wave of cold was guided by the winds and the snow.
What made the blizzard so deadly was the timing of it. After this blizzard of 1888,
