Major snows in the days before Thanksgiving are relatively rare, but always memorable.

Few can forget the famous "Snovember" storm of Nov. 17, 2014, a wall of white that paralyzed areas south and east of Buffalo while leaving the city unscathed.

And then there was the greatest 24-hour snowfall the area has ever seen – 24.9 inches on Nov. 20, 2000 – which caught everyone by surprise and stranded thousands of commuters overnight.

Take a look back at The Buffalo News' coverage of Western New York's memorable November storms.

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A look back on the Storm of 2000 that dropped 24.9 inches of snow on an unsuspecting region in just nine hours. The snow fell at an inopportun…

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