{"id":3696,"date":"2022-04-02T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T10:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/april-fools-day-blizzard-pummeled-massachusetts-25-years-ago-today-boston-news-weather-sports-whdh-7news\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T10:11:21","slug":"april-fools-day-blizzard-pummeled-massachusetts-25-years-ago-today-boston-news-weather-sports-whdh-7news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/02\/april-fools-day-blizzard-pummeled-massachusetts-25-years-ago-today-boston-news-weather-sports-whdh-7news\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fool\u2019s Day blizzard pummeled Massachusetts 25 years ago today &#8211; Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday marks the 25-year anniversary of the  historic April Fool\u2019s Day blizzard that pummeled Massachusetts with heavy snow and whipping wind gusts.<br \/>On April 1, 1997, a major snowstorm blanketed Boston in more than two feet of snow and dumped about three feet in Worcester.<br \/>The blizzard nearly doubled the amount of snow Boston received that entire season.<br \/>An estimated 700,000 people lost power due to damaging wind gusts that reached up to 50-70 mph.<br \/>April 1997 remains the snowiest April on record.<br \/>25 years ago!  The April Fool&#8217;s Day Blizzard of 1997 blanketed Boston in a little bit more than 2 ft of snow, nearly 3 ft in Worcester.  This storm packed a punch, not only with the heavy snow, but gusts reached up to 50-70 mph!  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fbf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fbf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/7news?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#7news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xsW3TCgmrV\">pic.twitter.com\/xsW3TCgmrV<\/a><br \/><em>(Copyright (c) 2022 Sunbeam Television. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)<\/em><br \/>WHDH TV 7NEWS WLVI TV CW56<br \/> \t\t\tSunbeam Television Corp<br \/> \t\t\t7 Bulfinch Place<br \/> \t\t\tBoston, MA 02114<br \/> \t\t\tNews Tips: (800) 280-TIPS<br \/> \t\t\tTell Hank: (855) 247-HANK<br \/>Join us<br \/>All content \u00a9 Copyright 2000 &#8211; 2022 WHDH-TV. WHDH broadcast educational and informational programming for children, and file quarterly reports with the FCC detailing the station&#8217;s outreach to children. The public may view the reports by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/whdh.com\">WHDH.com<\/a> and clicking on &#8220;FCC Public File&#8221;, or by visiting the FCC&#8217;s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.org\">FCC.org<\/a>. For more information on this site, please read our <a href=\"https:\/\/whdh.com\/privacy-policy\">Privacy Policy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/whdh.com\/terms-of-service\">Terms of Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whdh.com\/news\/april-fools-day-blizzard-pummeled-massachusetts-25-years-ago-today\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday marks the 25-year anniversary of the historic April Fool\u2019s Day blizzard that pummeled Massachusetts with heavy snow and whipping wind gusts.On April 1, 1997, a major snowstorm blanketed Boston in more than two feet of snow and dumped about three feet in Worcester.The blizzard nearly doubled the amount of snow Boston received that entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}