page_title: Global storm activity of 2007
section_title: April 2–7
hierarchical_section_title: Global storm activity of 2007 / The events of 2007 / April / April 2–7
caption_attribution_description: English: Heavy snowfall on Good Friday 2007 in the countryside near Volant, Pennsylvania, United States. Approximately six inches of snow had fallen by late morning.
context_page_description: Global storm activity of 2007 profiles the major worldwide storms, including blizzards, ice storms, and other winter events, from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2007. Winter storms are events in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form. It may be marked by strong wind, thunder and lightning, heavy precipitation, such as ice, or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere. Other major non winter events such as large dust storms, Hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, gales, flooding and rainstorms are also caused by such phenomena to a lesser or greater existent.
  Very rarely, they may form in summer, though it would have to be an abnormally cold summer, such as the summer of 1816 in the Northeast United States of America. In many locations in the Northern Hemisphere, the most powerful winter storms usually occur in March and, in regions where temperatures are cold enough, April.
context_section_description: A late season winter storm dumped a large swath of snow from North and South Dakota, eastward through Minnesota, Wisconsin and into Upper Michigan.  Up to 9 inches of snow fell near Bismarck, North Dakota, 11 inches in Brainerd, Minnesota, and areas near Hurley, Wisconsin received 18 inches.  Parts of Upper and northern Michigan then saw a major Lake Effect event over approximately five days.  Painesdale, Michigan received 65 inches of snow and the National Weather Service in Marquette received 47 inches, shattering most previous April snowfall records for that city.  Lake effect also affected the Lake Erie region,  cancelling the series between the Cleveland Indians and Seattle Mariners baseball teams in Cleveland, and prompting a move of the next series with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from Jacobs Field to Miller Park in Milwaukee.
  In northern New England, the storm hit on Wednesday afternoon and left behind up to a foot and a half of snow, sleet, and freezing rain.  Over 180,000 homes lost power, mostly due to broken tree limbs snapping wires.  The storm has caused at least one death.
  Heavy snow also fell across much of southern and central Quebec, with amounts in excess of 12 inches (30 cm) across some areas, with higher amounts over higher terrain in the Charlevoix region. Numerous accidents were reported across the provinces including one involving a firetruck. Two people were killed in accidents across the province.
  On the back side of the storm, persistent heavy flurries gave additional accumulations of a few inches across most of Ontario and Quebec.
caption: Parts of Pennsylvania, including countryside around Volant, received much snow on Good Friday and the following days.
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