The Great Snowstorm of 1944 was a distruptive winter storm that brought high winds and between 12 and 30 inches (30.5 and 91.6 centimetres) of snow to the eastern Great Lakes region of North America between Sunday, December 10, and Wednesday, December 13, 1944. The areas most affected included northeastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, upstate New York, southern Ontario and southern Quebec.