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Title: Winter In The USA 2014-15
Post by: Mark on September 12, 2014, 08:24:07 AM


Rapid City sees earliest snowfall since 1888 (http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2014/09/11/inches-possible-black-hills/15434275/)
Title: ◾Chicago recorded the third earliest snow on record this morning
Post by: Mark on October 06, 2014, 05:44:37 PM
◾Chicago recorded the third earliest snow on record this morning, beginning at 6:58 am CDT.
◾In Chicago, the earliest traces of snow on record dating back to 1881 were September 25, 1928 and September 25, 1942.

◦Temperature ◾Chicago set a record low maximum temperature today of 47 degrees.
◾The previous record low maximum temperature for Chicago on this day was 48° in 1935.
◾To put this in perspective, the average minimum temperature for this date is 46.  The average high is 67.
◾The record low temperature of 32 degrees (set in 1989) was not reached.  Today's low was only 35.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=lot&storyid=104553&source=0
Title: Kansas – Earliest frost on record – Growing season now third shortest on record
Post by: Mark on October 08, 2014, 04:45:13 PM
The shortest was 114 days in 1901, followed by 133 days in 1912,

says the Hays (Kansas) Daily News.


The Daily News reported that an all-time (114-year) record was broken on September 13, 2014, when the thermometer dipped to 31 degrees F.

The low of 31 degrees not only was a new record for the day, but a new record for the first frost of the fall.

It also means this year’s growing season — at 134 days — is the third shortest on record in this bread basket of the U.S.. The shortest was 114 days in 1901, followed by 133 days in 1912.

Previously, the earliest fall frost in 117 years of record keeping at the Kansas State University Agricultural Research Center was Sept. 17, recorded twice in 1901 and again two years later in 1903.

That means this year’s first frost broke the previous 114-year-old record by five days.

Many other areas also dropped to near- or below-freezing temperatures the following day, raising the specter of a double-whammy in those areas.

Late maturing grain sorghum crops the most likely to be affected

Corn, grain sorghum and soybeans are susceptible to freezing temperatures, said Kansas State University Agricultural Research Center chief Bob Gillen,.

Already, leaves on pumpkin plants growing at the research center have turned black as a result of the freezing temperature, and the upper third of a field of already drought-plagued forage growing east of Hays had turned brown.

Gillen said many corn fields already are at a stage where they won’t be hurt too badly by the freeze, but that’s not the case for many grain sorghum fields.

And don’t forget. After a “sharply wetter-than-normal July,” farmers had to wait before they could get in the field and plant grain sorghum this summer.

Now, with all of the recent rain, Gillen is also starting to worry about farmers being able to get wheat in the ground on a timely basis.
HDNews.net - an online service of the Hays Daily News (http://hdnews.net/search/frostedcrops091714)
Title: Cold snap sets records in Naples, Florida
Post by: Mark on November 07, 2014, 08:55:42 AM
Temperatures only reached a high of 71 degrees in Miami, breaking a record set at 73 degrees in 1949. In West Palm Beach, temperatures peaked at 69 degrees, breaking the 1964 record of 72

Cold snap sets records in Naples, South Florida - Naples Daily News (http://www.naplesnews.com/news/watercooler/cold-snap-sets-records-in-naples-south-florida_22718600)
Title: Polar Vortex to Blast 200 Million People With Arctic Air
Post by: Mark on November 08, 2014, 01:16:16 PM
Arctic air associated with the polar vortex will lunge into the North Central United States early next week and will expand southward and eastward to affect about 200 million people as the week progresses

The polar vortex is a large pocket of very cold air, typically the coldest air in the Northern Hemisphere, which sits over the polar region. Occasionally, this pocket of very cold air can get dislodged farther south than normal, leading to cold outbreaks in Canada and the U.S.

The coldest weather of the season so far will extend from the Dakotas to Texas and the Interstate-95 corridor by the end of the week. The outbreak of arctic air will be long-lasting and may linger well past the middle of the month
Polar Vortex to Blast 200 Million People With Arctic Air (http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/polar-vortex-to-vist-central-u/36890008)
Title: All 50 states have below freezing temperatures
Post by: Mark on November 19, 2014, 06:23:41 AM
Meteorologist Tim Buckley of WFMY-TV writes on Facebook:

"All 50 states have low temperatures BELOW freezing tonight. (Monday night)

Yes, even Hawaii. Tall mountain peaks there regularly get below freezing, and even get snow.

This typically happens a few times during winter, but is very rare this early in the season.

Pretty neat!"

The low temperature forecast for tonight shows the cold continuing nationally, with perhaps a second night of below freezing temperatures in all 50 states:

T8_conus[1]

https://www.facebook.com/MeteorologistTimBuckley?fref=photo
Title: Re: Winter In The USA 2014-15
Post by: PaulMy on November 20, 2014, 05:48:10 PM
Somewhat serious snow in Buffallo, New York...  https://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/buffalo-n-y-shut-down-by-several-feet-of-snow-slideshow/wintry-weather-new-york-photo-1416356553745.html (https://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/buffalo-n-y-shut-down-by-several-feet-of-snow-slideshow/wintry-weather-new-york-photo-1416356553745.html)

Appealing for hiring people to help shovel the stadium for Sunday's Buffalo Bills vs New York Jets Football game, for $10.00 and hour and ticket to the game .
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCYQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobalnews.ca%2Fnews%2F1680938%2Fwant-to-see-buffalo-bills-game-sunday-bring-a-shovel%2F&ei=8nFtVN_MAsX9yQStv4LwBQ&usg=AFQjCNFxBI9zuFr_O8DwNXdap2BtNCHrQA (http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCYQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobalnews.ca%2Fnews%2F1680938%2Fwant-to-see-buffalo-bills-game-sunday-bring-a-shovel%2F&ei=8nFtVN_MAsX9yQStv4LwBQ&usg=AFQjCNFxBI9zuFr_O8DwNXdap2BtNCHrQA)

Paul
Title: Re: Winter In The USA 2014-15
Post by: Mark on November 20, 2014, 05:54:39 PM
Good links Paul.

I have heard on News that they have had more snow This November than what they would get in a normal winter.
Title: Re: Winter In The USA 2014-15
Post by: JennyLeez on November 21, 2014, 12:31:47 AM
Found this on the cumulus forum, imagine opening the door in the morning to this.

Originally posted up:
http://www.wned.org/ (http://www.wned.org/)

Also some amazing snow photos through these headlines:

http://news.wbfo.org/ (http://news.wbfo.org/)

(http://nzpws.net/nzwn/images/snow_door.jpg)
Title: BUFFALO, WESTERN NEW YORK BURIED BY ANOTHER WAVE OF SNOW
Post by: Mark on November 21, 2014, 08:36:49 AM
BUFFALO, WESTERN NEW YORK BURIED BY ANOTHER WAVE OF SNOW

second band of lake-effect snow pounded cities and towns near Buffalo, New York, early Thursday, piling more misery on communities already paralyzed by a 5-foot blanket of snow. Authorities confirmed an eighth death blamed on the storm.

“A few areas are getting close to a foot right now, but the worst of it is the additional accumulation and that will occur today,” The Weather Channel’s Michael Palmer said. “So its just going to prolong people getting in and trying clearing the snow away — that’s just not going to happen until the weekend.”


 

 



The Buffalo area was buried under as much as 5½ feet of snow Wednesday. Two additional feet were expected in some areas during the day, topping off with another 5 to 8 inches on Thursday night.

The eighth death was a 60-year-old man who had a heart condition and was stricken while operating a snowblower, said authorities in Erie County, which includes Buffalo.

Because wet air blowing in from Lake Erie is so much warmer than the prevailing air in the region, the result will again be thunderstorms that drop snow, not rain — the oddity called thundersnow.

video -
Buffalo, Western New York Buried by Another Wave of Snow - NBC News (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/buffalo-western-new-york-buried-another-wave-snow-n251436)
Title: Re: Winter In The USA 2014-15
Post by: kaihoka on November 21, 2014, 08:38:54 AM
Blame This Arctic Superstorm For Brutal U.S. Winter Weather | Popular Science (http://www.popsci.com/blame-arctic-superstorm-brutal-us-winter-weather)
Title: 141 year old cold weather record falls in Jacksonville USA
Post by: Mark on November 21, 2014, 06:50:44 PM
By Blake Mathews, Weather producer, meteorologist, bmathews@wjxt.com.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - 
Thursday morning not only broke an "ancient" record from 1873, but we also dropped to the second coldest temperature ever recorded in the month of November in Jacksonville.

According to the National Weather Service, for the second morning in a row, Jacksonville set a new cold weather record. Thursday mornings temperature dropped to a bone chilling 24 degrees breaking the old record of 30 degrees set in 1873.

If that wasn't cold enough for you, Thursday's 24 degrees also marks the second lowest temperature ever recorded in the month of November, beaten out only by the year 1970 when the mercury dropped to 21 degrees in Jacksonville in November.

Some areas around Woodbine, GA flirted with the upper teens as the temperature officially there dropped to 20 degrees.

Any thoughts that the winter of 2014-2015 wouldn't be as bone-chilling as last year's may have just been put on thin ice. And it's only November.

Tuesday morning was the coldest Nov. 19 across the United States since 1976, some 38 years, according to Dr. Ryan Maue, meteorologist with WeatherBell. The average temperature across the entire country was just 19.4°.

An astounding 226 million people in all 50 states, that includes the tropical paradise of Hawaii, were below freezing at the same time putting an exclamation point on an already paralyzing winter season -- that hasn't even officially started yet.
141 year old cold weather record falls in Jacksonville | Weather - Home (http://m.news4jax.com/weather/coldest-november-morning-in-38-years-across-usa/29817030)
Title: Chicago – Coldest Year in 110 Years
Post by: Mark on December 04, 2014, 06:26:06 PM
Not just the day, not just the week, not just the month, we’re talking the entire year.


“None of us have never experienced a year as cold as 2014,” says CBS Chicago’s website.

“The last time the average annual year-to-date temperature was this cold was back in 1904.

“According to the Gerontology research group, there is nobody from Illinois born before 1904 that is still living. Nationwide, there are 18 people older than 110 years old.”

And there’s a “good chance that temps could drop to below average for most of this winter season.”

2014 Chicago Has Been Coldest In 110 Years « CBS Chicago (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/12/03/2014-chicago-has-been-coldest-in-110-years/)
Title: San Francisco shatters rainfall record – Rainiest start to December in at least
Post by: Mark on December 17, 2014, 05:36:50 PM
16 Dec 2014 – Since the beginning of the month, San Francisco has recorded more than 9.14 inches (23.2 cm) of rain, says National Weather Service meteorologist Charles Bell. The previous record of 7.10 inches was set in 1889. Data go back as far as 1849.

Not only San Francisco, major cities in the Bay Area are experiencing record rainfall during the first half of December, the National Weather Service said Tuesday.

Oakland beat the previous record set in 1950, while San Jose has endured (or celebrated?) the wettest December since 1906.

More rain was expected today.

Nine inches of rain drench San Francisco :: SFBay | San Francisco Bay Area News and Sports (http://sfbay.ca/2014/12/16/nine-inches-of-rain-drench-san-francisco/)
Title: Mix of snow, ice, rain a prelude to bitter cold
Post by: Mark on January 06, 2015, 06:34:59 AM
CHICAGO (AP) - Snow, ice and rain fell Saturday in the Midwest and eastern parts of the U.S., a prelude to the Arctic temperatures due to arrive in the next few days.

The mix of precipitation affected a swath from the Oklahoma Panhandle - where several inches of snow were in the forecast - to southern New England, where up to a quarter-inch of ice is possible in the eastern Berkshires.

A mix of rain and ice factored into numerous accidents in Michigan and Ohio and threatened an outdoor hockey game in Toledo.

And parts of the southern U.S. saw heavy rain and thunderstorms, leading the National Weather Service to issue tornado watches and warnings in Mississippi and Louisiana and a flash flood watch for portions of Arkansas.

The weather service said a tornado was reported on the ground in the area of Oak Vale, Mississippi. Authorities had no initial reports of injuries or major damage.
Mix of snow, ice, rain a prelude to bitter cold - AOL.com (http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/03/mix-of-snow-ice-rain-a-prelude-to-bitter-cold/21123967/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chp-desktop%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D592656)
Title: USA Will this week be worse than the polar vortex?
Post by: Mark on January 06, 2015, 04:54:13 PM
Will this week be worse than the polar vortex? Deadly cold snap to strike half of the US, bringing sub-zero temperatures, heavy rain and snow to 50 MILLION
•Series of 'dangerously cold' air masses will strike half of US this week
•First arctic blast will hit on Monday - followed by a colder one Tuesday
•Will send temperatures plummeting to 10 to 20 degrees below average
•'This arctic cold is potentially deadly and dangerous,' say forecasters
•It will affect more than '50million people in 24 states' throughout week
•Will rival last January's arctic outbreak that was linked to 'polar vortex'
•New York City will be 'lucky' to see temperatures of above 20 degrees
•Meanwhile, five inches of snow could hit Chicago by Tuesday morning
Worse than the polar vortex? Deadly cold snap to strike half of the US today, bringing sub-zero temperatures, heavy rain and snow to 50 MILLION | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2896884/Deadly-cold-snap-strike-half-Monday-bringing-sub-zero-temperatures-heavy-rain-snow-50-MILLION-people.html)
Title: 'Dangerously cold' temperatures and snow across US
Post by: Mark on January 08, 2015, 07:49:09 PM
Temperatures across much of the northern and eastern US are plunging to "dangerously cold" levels, the National Weather Service says.

High winds mean wind-chill temperatures are forecast to drop as low as -50F (-45C) in Minnesota.

The freeze has led to the closure or late running of schools from north to south, from the Dakotas to Alabama.

Winter weather warnings have been issued for 17 US states and for Ontario and southern Quebec.

In other developments:

heavy snow and blizzards forecast in North and South Dakota
temperatures will plunge to -44F (-42C) in Fargo, North Dakota
schools are closed in Chicago, in -28F (-33C) temperatures
a storm dumped about a foot (30cm) of snow in northern New York
another foot of "lake-effect" snow is expected in parts of New York state over the next two days
In the north-east, temperatures were expected to drop further on Wednesday following an arctic blast of air that could produce wind gusts of up to 40mph (64km/h).
BBC News - 'Dangerously cold' temperatures and snow across US (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30716563)
Title: Video – New York Mayor De Blasio – “We are facing the largest snowstorm in the r
Post by: Mark on January 26, 2015, 05:29:33 PM
As much as two feet (60 cm) of snow,  potentially pushing on 3 feet (90 cm) of snow.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeBneVu4w0&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Winter In The USA 2014-15
Post by: Martin4Jay on January 26, 2015, 10:29:04 PM
Hope everyone will be safe
Title: Snow makes Manhatten a ghost town.
Post by: JennyLeez on January 27, 2015, 11:51:33 PM
Residents in northeast hunker down in face of 'historic' storm

(CNN)Manhattan is a ghost town. The Boston Common is buried in white. The New England coastline is being whipped by near hurricane-force winds and waves.

Welcome to the blizzard of 2015.

Snow is falling 2 to 4 inches and hour at times and is especially heavy along the coast.

Blizzard warnings are in place from New Jersey to Maine. Boston is forecast to receive 20 to 30 inches of snow, and in some cases a bit more.

Up to 58 million people could be put into the deep freeze. And the storm could have a far-reaching economic and political impact, even beyond the region directly hit.

Flying into and out of the Northeast is a non-starter.

More than 4,300 flights have been canceled for Tuesday, the flight-tracking website Flightaware.com said. That's on top of 2,800 scrubbed on Monday. Hundreds more have already been canceled for Wednesday.

Amtrak said it was suspending Northeast Regional and Acela Express service between New York and Boston for Tuesday because of severe weather.

Further reading here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/27/us/weather-storm/index.html (http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/27/us/weather-storm/index.html)
Title: new record low in Maine
Post by: Mark on February 05, 2015, 06:06:44 PM
With New England under an Arctic blast, an all-time low temperature of -50° Fahrenheit (-45.6 C)was recorded in Maine on the morning of January 16.

The new record low was recorded at 7:30 a.m. EST at a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stream gauge on the Big Black River near Depot Mountain in northwestern Aroostook County.

The previous record, -48° Fahrenheit (-44.4 C), was set in Van Buren, Maine almost 84 years earlier, on January 19, 1925

NOAA's NWS Forecast Office—Caribou, Maine— (http://www.erh.noaa.gov/car/News_Items/2009-02-10_item001.htm)
Title: Record lows in Virginia
Post by: Mark on February 23, 2015, 07:21:27 PM
https://twitter.com/NWSBlacksburg/status/568774363392004096/photo/1

Some record lows that where record on the 20th.

Title: eastern half of the United States has been trapped in a deep freeze for most of
Post by: Mark on March 01, 2015, 07:04:01 PM
 Hundreds (maybe thousands) of records have been set for daily low temperatures, and wave after wave of ice and snowstorms have hit the region. The coldest days of the year usually occur in January, yet February 2015 has been exceptional in many places.

Several satellites captured views of the frozen landscape from above, observing saltwater sea ice in East Coast harbors and freshwater ice in the Great Lakes and other inland waterways. Snow and ice have blanketed land surfaces from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, from the Carolinas to Maine.

On February 20, 2015, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured a natural-color view (above) of the U.S.-Canadian border along the Niagara River. Note how a manmade ice boom keeps the mouth of the Niagara River clear near Buffalo, New York. As of February 27, Lake Erie was 95.9 percent covered in ice, while Lake Ontario was at 48.9 percent. Overall, the five Great Lakes combined were 84.1 percent ice covered.

Below you can see a trio of images showing the Mid-Atlantic region. The first image was captured on February 24 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. It shows ice in Delaware Bay—between New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware—and in the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay between Maryland and Delaware. The following two images (from February 15) come from the Landsat 8 OLI and show closer views, including ice streamers.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85387&src=nha
Title: 49 of 50 States Have Snow on the Ground to Start March 2015
Post by: JennyLeez on March 03, 2015, 11:17:18 PM
March has arrived, so naturally thoughts of spring start to creep into the minds of the USA people with the heart of winter out of the way. However, the snow cover analysis of the Lower 48 states might make them think differently.

Florida was the only state without at least some snow cover to kick off March. The area covered by snow in the Lower 48 states was 63.4 percent on March 1, according to NOHRSC.

Outside of the Lower 48,  Alaska has snow on the ground, but Hawaii does as well on the Big Island peak of Mauna Kea. A winter weather advisory was in effect for the summits of the Big Island until early Monday.

Including Alaska and Hawaii, that makes 49 of 50 states with at least some snow on the ground to start March.

Although rare, snow cover in all 50 states at the same time happened just over five years ago on Feb. 12, 2010.
Title: 94 Million People Affected as Snow Storm Sweeps Across America 6-3-2015
Post by: JennyLeez on March 06, 2015, 01:57:39 PM
94 Million People Affected as Snow Storm Sweeps Across America 6th March 2015

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, March 5 (Xinhua) -- A powerful winter storm moving across the eastern U.S. is bringing heavy snow from parts of the Ohio Valley to the Northeast Thursday and puts 94 million people under Winter Storm Warning or Winter Weather Advisory, U.S. National Weather Service

Nearly a thousand flights have been canceled in New York Tri- State area due to the winter storm. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for New York City, Long Island and areas of New Jersey until 7 p.m. Thursday, predicting snow accumulations of between 4 and 7 inches.

Road traffic in some places were virtually brought to a standstill............  more:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-03/06/c_134042044.htm (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-03/06/c_134042044.htm)
Title: record cold daily highs were set in Montpelier, Vermont (19), and Watertown, New
Post by: Mark on March 28, 2015, 11:47:26 AM
For portions of the East, spring's changeable temperatures are on full display this week.

On Monday, record cold daily highs were set in Montpelier, Vermont (19), and Watertown, New York (21), among other locations. Bangor, Maine (4 degrees), and Binghamton, New York (10), each tied a daily record low Tuesday.

Then, milder air moved in for midweek. Highs on Thursday reached into the middle 70s in Washington, D.C., while Philadelphia warmed into the 60s. Farther north, Boston topped out in the middle 50s. That said, these more comfortable temperatures were accompanied by rain and clouds.

The latest chapter of this up-and-down temperature story will have you grabbing your coat again in many eastern cities this weekend. This is due to a sharp dip in the jet stream that will force cold air from Canada all the way into the Deep South. In fact, freeze watches and warnings have been issued for Tennessee, as well as parts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas for Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Below is a look at just how cold it will get this time around.
http://www.weather.com/forecast/national/news/temperature-roller-coaster-northeast-first-week-of-spring
Title: Re: Winter In The USA 2014-15
Post by: Rwood on March 28, 2015, 12:55:58 PM
Worth noting that the winter for the USA overall was warmer than average - record daily highs outnumbered record daily lows by about 4:1.

Cold Comfort: Winter Was No Record-Breaker, NOAA Says (http://www.livescience.com/50073-winter-2014-2015-how-cold.html)

Globally, the winter 2014-2015 was the warmest on record, with the NE of the US the only populated region with a significant temperature deficit.
Title: Re: Winter In The USA 2014-15
Post by: JennyLeez on March 28, 2015, 02:50:47 PM
Well that certainly surprises me.

Some of their days were freezing.

Thanks for that Rupert, good read :)
Title: Millersville, Pennsylvania coldest January-March in 101 years
Post by: Mark on April 02, 2015, 07:34:56 PM

It's official - although you probably could have guessed it anyway.
 
January-March 2015 ranks as the coldest first three months of the year in history for Lancaster County, according to Millersville University Weather Center data.
 
So it's only fitting that the last day of March comes with an expected daytime high - 50 - that's 9 degrees below normal.

It's also supposed to rain off and on today, according to Accuweather.com. North of Lancaster County, snow is expected.

Millersville meteorologist Eric Horst on Monday declared this January-March the coldest in the 101 years for which weather records have been kept in Lancaster County.

Combined, those three months averaged 7.1 degrees below the normal temperature here.

Individually, January was 4 degrees below normal, February was 11.3 degrees below normal and March was 6 degrees below normal.

This year's 7.1-degree average below the normal temperature follows last year's 6.9-degree variation below average, which was the third coldest, three-month start to a year on record.

So in two years, Lancaster County saw two of the three coldest first three months of the year of the past century.

In keeping with that theme, Accuweather predicts that when the clouds blow out around midnight tonight, the temperature is really going to drop.

Accuweather is calling for the mercury to hit 28 before sunrise Wednesday, which would be 8 degrees below the normal low for April 1.

Wednesday should be sunny, but it's still going to be cold, with a high of only 49 expected. That's 10 degrees below normal.

Temperatures should dip below freezing during the night yet again, before the warm-up begins Thursday.

A high of 64 is expected Thursday, under mostly sunny skies, followed by a high of 67 Friday, which should come with some rain.

That warm spell should blow away Saturday, when a high of 48 is expected, followed by a high of 52 on Sunday.
Rain, cold close out coldest January-March in 101 years - LancasterOnline: Local News (http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/rain-cold-close-out-coldest-january-march-in-years/article_40062408-d798-11e4-89fa-b3b251eecc21.html)
Title: ice 8 feet thick in some places (Lake Superior)
Post by: Mark on April 10, 2015, 12:55:38 PM

ce coverage on eastern Lake Superior has hamstrung ship traffic this week, with 18 vessels waiting Wednesday in Whitefish Bay to move through a soup of ice 8 feet thick in some places, with slabs of ice as big as pickup trucks.

       

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“This is just crazy how much ice we have out there; we’ve had 35 square miles of ice descend upon and affix itself (to existing ice),” said Mark Gill, director of vessel traffic services for the U.S. Coast Guard, who likened Whitefish Bay to a bathtub drain that took in all of Lake Superior’s ice during several days of westerly winds dating back to last weekend. “The wind blew all the ice down from the open lake. It’s all packed in there and rolled up on itself.”


None of the vessels are beset in ice; rather, they’re staged in the ice waiting for Canadian and U.S. coast guard icebreakers to reestablish tracklines through the bay. Six of the vessels are downbound, headed for the nearby Soo Locks, while 12 are upbound.

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Alder, from Duluth, and the Mackinaw — the largest U.S.  icebreaker serving the Great Lakes — have been chipping away with assistance from several other, smaller icebreakers. Canada’s big icebreaker Pierre Radisson was set to join the fray later Wednesday.

“The ice is very mobile; there’s a lot of water in it,” Gill said. “Hit with the icebreakers, it moves and doesn’t take the break. It’s been very slow to say the least.”


The Kaye E. Barker, a 767-foot iron ore and coal hauler which wintered in Duluth, suffered damage to its forepeak while trying to maneuver in the ice. A hole in the Barker’s ballast tank wasn’t dangerous, Gill said, but it was forcing her into the adjacent Waiska Bay, where it will transfer its load of iron ore onto the Lee A. Tregurtha. The Kaye E. Barker will then receive a temporary fix before carrying on to Sturgeon Bay, Wis., for permanent repairs.

“Hopefully, by midday Friday, we’ll be back to normal — after that it’s a matter for Mother Nature,” Gill said, adding that rain in the forecast would help, as well as some sunshine.
Ice conditions tie up shipping traffic on eastern Lake Superior | Duluth News Tribune (http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/3717073-ice-conditions-tie-shipping-traffic-eastern-lake-superior)
Title: Colorado snow totals for April 16-17, 2015
Post by: Mark on April 18, 2015, 11:24:32 AM
The Denver Post

The following Colorado snow totals have been reported by the National Weather Service for the April 16-17, 2015 storm, as of 10:30 a.m. Friday:

Allenspark — 23 inches

Antero Reservoir — 6 inches

Aspen Springs — 10.5 inches

Aurora — 6 inches

Bailey — 11.4 inches

Bergen Park — 7 inches

Black Hawk — 24.5 inches

Boulder — 3.7 inches

Breckenridge — 2.7 inches

Brookvale — 8 inches

Broomfield — 5.1 inches

Buckhorn Mountain — 28.3 inches

Central City — 6 inches

Cheesman Reservoir — 6.5 inches

Conifer — 22.2 inches

Denver — 1.5 inches

Denver International Airport — 4.1 inches

Dillon — 2.5 inches

Eldorado Springs — 6.2 inches

Elizabeth — 10 inches

Estes Park — 17.4 inches

Evergreen — 18 inches

Fairplay — 6.3 inches

Federal Heights — 4 inches

Franktown — 9.5 inches

Fort Collins — 2 inches

Four Corners — 5 inches

Genesee — 22.3 inches

Golden — 24 inches

Grant — 10 inches

Greeley — 1.1 inches

Hereford — 2 inches

Highlands Ranch — 8.5 inches

Idledale — 10.3 inches

Jamestown — 16.2 inches

Kassler — 6 inches

Lake George — 3 inches


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Lakewood — 3 inches

Lafayette — 1.8 inches

Livermore — 20 inches

Longmont — 1.5 inches

Louisville — 3 inches

Nederland — 21 inches

Northglenn — 3.4 inches

Parker — 8 inches

Pinecliffe — 14 inches

Pingree Park — 18 inches

Roxborough Park — 12.7 inches

Tabernash — 5 inches

Thornton — 4 inches

Tiny Town — 17.5 inches

Virginia Dale — 8 inches

Wellington — 1 inch

Westminster — 3 inches

Wheat Ridge — 4.1 inches

Williams Fork Reservoir — 8 inches

Colorado snow totals for April 16-17, 2015 - The Denver Post (http://www.denverpost.com/weathernews/ci_27933655/colorado-snow-totals-april-16-17-2015)