Winter In The USA 2012-2013.

[JennyLeez]

Thanks for the link Mark. Hard to believe for me up here closeted from those acts of nature.

[Mark]

February 26, 2013 – TEXAS - A strong winter storm blowing through the Texas Panhandle has lead to road closures and blizzard conditions in the area, where as many as 100 motorists are stranded between Amarillo and Lubbock. Trooper David Hawthorne of the Texas Department of Public Safety in Amarillo said National Guard troops are helping state troopers and local deputies and police find and help motorists stranded in whiteout conditions. Numerous major Texas Panhandle highways were closed for the night as sub-freezing temperatures froze ice and compacted snow on the pavement. The Texas Department of Transportation website showed most major routes in the region were closed. The National Weather Service said as many as 100 motorists on Interstate 27 between Amarillo and Lubbock found themselves stalled in whiteout conditions in the worst of the storm, Monday. The American Red Cross set up two shelters for stranded motorists. Red Cross spokeswoman Martha Riddlesburger says about 50 stranded Interstate 27 motorists sought shelter at its shelter in Tulia, about 50 miles south of Amarillo. Red Cross spokesman Steven Pair says 45 motorists stranded on Interstate 40 sought refuge in a shelter in Groom, 45 miles east of Amarillo. As of 7 p.m., the heaviest snowfall in Texas was recorded in Amarillo with 19 inches of snow, 16 inches in Fritch, 15 inches in Pampa and 14 inches in Booker. In Oklahoma, 15 inches was recorded in Woodward and 11 inches in Shattuck. While snowfall is expected to taper off by Monday afternoon, wind gusts of up to 35 mph will remain a hazard, said Sarah Johnson, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service’s Amarillo, Texas, office. The strong storm is expected to bring cooler temperatures and a wintery mix to DFW Monday evening with possible wind gusts of 75 miles an hour. Whiteouts were also reported in Oklahoma, where as of 10 a.m. Central time, the state had closed all highways in six counties — Ellis, Harper, Woodward, Beaver, Texas and Cimarron — until further notice. –NBCDWF, CNN

[Mark]

Heavy snowfall rates and stronger north winds with this system resulted in periods of blizzard conditions across portions of south central and southwest Kansas. Snowfall exceeded one foot across Kingman and Harper counties with thundersnow reported for the second time in less than a week.
 
Wichita, Kansas recorded 6.8 inches of snowfall which was preceeded by 14.2 inches the previous week. This total of 21 inches set the all-time snowfall record for any month !
 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ict&storyid=92886&source=0

[Mark]

Including Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
 
Many cities will likely see their biggest snowstorm of the winter season.
 
Snowfall accumulations today and Tuesday should be from 6-12 inches from Fargo, N.D. through Minneapolis, Minn., through the southern suburbs of Chicago, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Brian Edwards.
 
By Wednesday, the storm could bring significant snow to Washington D.C. and Baltimore metro areas.

AccuWeather reports that Starkweather, N.D., and Rocky Boy, Mont., have already picked up 10 inches of snow.
 
Yesterday, Calgary, Alberta, received about a foot of snow from the storm.
 
By Wednesday, the storm will head east, spreading heavy snow in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia, and Virginia, reports Weather Channel meteorologist Jon Erdman, who says the snow will be heavy and wet, which, along with high winds, could lead to power outages.
 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bis/
 
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/03/04/winter-storm-midwest-midatlantic/1961753/

[Mark]

March 5, 2013 – CHICAGO - Mother Nature is apparently saving the best, or at least the biggest, for last. Chicago residents expected to find themselves in the midst of a storm that could wind up dumping as much as 10 inches of snow in the area before the end of Tuesday — the most since the 2011 blizzard and its more than 20 inches of snow.
“This will be the biggest widespread storm of the winter,” National Weather Service meteorologist
Amy Seeley said. The forecast is for 8 to 10 inches throughout northeastern Illinois and northwest Indiana, a far cry from last March, which saw less than a half-inch of snow and was the warmest one on record in Illinois. Hardware stores in and around the city did brisk business Monday, selling salt and snow shovels at a time many usually turn their thoughts toward gardening and baseball.
“Everybody’s got a little comment with every bag they’re buying,” said Mike McIntosh, who works at Dressel’s Hardware in Oak Park just outside Chicago. Workers had started to stock the shelves with tools and supplies associated with spring and summer, only to find the shovels and salt they thought they’d hold for another year were still in demand.
“Everybody’s a bit surprised, but it’s good for us, we’ve got a lot of this stuff to move,” he said. On Monday, the system moved across the Dakotas and Minnesota, dropping up to a foot of snow in some areas and freezing rain in others. Some schools closed and officials warned motorists to stay off the roads.
As it moved eastward, emergency officials in a number of states issued similar warnings in the hopes that commuters will leave their cars in the garage and take public transportation to work.
In Wisconsin, where as much as a foot of snow is in the forecast, emergency managers urged residents to put winter survival kits in their vehicles and check on road conditions.
State patrol officers were searching for a semi driver in the Red Cedar River near Menomonie in western Wisconsin early Tuesday after the vehicle slid off the nearby snow-covered Interstate 94 into the frigid waterway.
 A wet snow pelted commuters as they slid along the slick streets of downtown Chicago through the soggy wintery mix early Tuesday. Snow was forecast for the morning and afternoon rush hours, Seeley said.
The weather service also said that as much as 1.5 inches of snow could fall per hour, “making snow removal difficult and travel extremely dangerous.”Ill.
 Gov. Pat Quinn urged motorists to avoid driving unless absolutely necessary, insisting that “safety comes first.
” The Illinois Department of Transportation planned to send a fleet of 360 trucks to plow roadways in northeastern Illinois early Tuesday, with a total of 600 throughout Northern Illinois. The storm is creating wet, heavy snow — known euphemistically as “heart attack snow” — which could pose a risk when it comes time to shovel for the elderly, sedentary people or those who have heart problems. –US NEWS

[Mark]

The blizzard that hammered the central United States dumped 19.1 inches (48½ cm)of snow on Amarillo, breaking a 120-year-old record for one-day February snowfall.
 
National Weather Service meteorologist Krissy Scotten in Amarillo says Monday’s snowfall bested the 19-inch record set on Feb. 16, 1893.
 
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2013/02/26/abqnewsseeker/some-roads-still-closed-in-panhand le.html

[Mark]

A winter storm swept over Washington, D.C. today, forcing federal offices to close and threatening to dump 4 to 8 inches of snow — the heaviest in Washington in two years.
 
“It will be a wet, heavy, gloppy snow consistent with wallpaper paste,” National Weather Service spokesman Chris Vaccaro said.
 
More than 1,100 flights were canceled at Reagan National airport and Washington Dulles, and power outages were expected in some parts of Virginia.
 
Meanwhile, in the Chicago suburbs, part of the roof of a banquet hall caved in, and snow poured into one wing of the building.
 
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17205699-wallpaper-paste-snowstorm-shuts-down-nations-capital?lite

[Mark]

Grand Forks received a record amount of snow for the date on Monday, besting the third day of the super blizzard of 1966, according to the National Weather Service.
 
Some 7.6 inches of snow fell in Grand Forks, while more than nine inches fell on the western edge of town at the airport.
 
http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/16631/

[Mark]

An overnight storm dumped record snowfall on Allen County, Indiana, and police were busy with emergency calls, including a fatal snowmobile crash this morning in Whitley County.
 
As of 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service reported 9 inches of snow at Fort Wayne International Airport – setting a record for the day – on top of 1 inch that was already on the ground. At Huntertown, 7 inches fell by 9 p.m. Monday, with 2 inches having fallen in the previous hour.
 
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130306/NEWS/130309705
 

[Mark]

“Major” winter storm - Winter weather warnings in effect for 18 states.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND … MAJOR WINTER STORM TO AFFECT THE REGION…

LOW PRESSURE WILL ORGANIZE ACROSS THE WESTERN DAKOTAS AND MOVE THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT AND MONDAY. AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM…STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP AND CAUSE AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW ALONG AND WEST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY.

VISIBILITIES WILL LIKELY BE REDUCED TO LESS THAN ONE HALF MILE IN OPEN COUNTRY LATE THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS.

SNOW WILL SPREAD FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR RAPID ACCUMULATION IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY.

TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION BY MONDAY EVENING.

HIGHER AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES LIKELY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

AS THE SYSTEM MOVES EAST MONDAY…STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS …MAY CAUSE BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ACROSS PARTS OF THE REGION.

HUBBARD-EAST BECKER-WADENA-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF… PARK RAPIDS… WOLF LAKE… WADENA

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fgf/

[Mark]

Denver can expect 5 to 8 inches of snow, with some parts of the High Plains of Colorado and northwest Kansas getting a foot or more tonight and Sunday, said Michael Palmer of weather.com.

“The heavier snow, potentially 6 to 12 inches plus, then pounds much of Indiana, northern Kentucky and Ohio Sunday into Sunday night,” Palmer added, with the potential for some accumulating snow “as far north as New York City on Monday.”

“Most areas will be 10-30 degrees below average with freezing temps extending deep into the South at times,” said Palmer. “The only areas escaping the chill will be parts of Florida and from the Rio Grand Valley into the Desert Southwest.”

“Many areas of the Upper Midwest are on track to have a top 5 or top 10 coldest March on record after the warmest March just last year.”


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/23/17427758-more-snow-coming-with-much-of-us-set-to-shiver-through-march?lite

[Mark]

Many parts of the U.S. will soon plunge back into winter-like temperatures as a cold front moving through the Northern USA today heads south to the Gulf of Mexico.

Temperatures will drop into the 20s in many parts of the Midwest, Great Lake Region and some states in the Plains.

The mercury will drop even further – into the teens – in parts of the Upper Midwest, Dakotas, and Upper New England regions, challenging cold records across the Eastern United States.

As the cold front sinks southward, lows across Texas will also drop into the 30s.

 http://www.theweatherspace.com/2013/03/31/april-arctic-air-blast-will-challenge-records-across-eastern-u-s/

[Mark]

Out of a possible 176,217 records: 1,034 (Broken) + 411 (Tied) = 1,445 Total

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records/daily/mint/2013/03/00?sts%5b%5d=US#records_look_up

[Mark]

Just as Anchorage is digging out from Saturday’s record snowfall, another big storm has begun.


This storm is expected to deposit 9 to 15  inches of fresh snow on top of the 6 to 10 inches that accumulated Saturday in Anchorage, according to the National Weather Service.

The snow is predicted to get heavy by afternoon, said meteorologist Jason Ahsenmacher.

The 6.2 inches of snowfall measured Saturday at the National Weather Service office on Sand Lake Road topped the prior record of 4.6 inches for April 6, set back in 1949. The Hilltop ski area got an estimated 10 inches.

As of Sunday afternoon, the official Anchorage snowfall this winter measured 84.1 inches, more than a foot above average, Ahsenmacher said.

This storm is expected to center on Anchorage but reach north as far as Talkeetna and south onto the Kenai Peninsula.

http://www.adn.com/2013/04/07/2856184/another-spring-storm-expected.html

[Mark]

An April snowstorm stretching from Utah into Minnesota could dump as much as 16 inches of snow

by the end of Tuesday in parts of Wyoming and South Dakota, says CNN.

The Denver area braced for frigid temperatures and another wintry blast – as much as 5 inches of snow – as the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning in Arapahoe and Adams counties, where temperatures could fall into the single digits Tuesday night.

Meanwhile, as much as an inch of ice brought down trees and power lines in Sioux Falls, Slouth Dakota, said Accuweather.com.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/04/09/Wintery-weather-hits-the-US-Plains/UPI-899913655 04772/

[Mark]

Record snowfall in Rapid City, South Dakota.

The winter storm battering much of South Dakota dumped 20 inches of snow on Rapid City yesterday, which makes it the single snowiest day since record-keeping began in 1942.

“The previous record for the airport was 18 inches on April 22nd in 2001.  So yesterday was the snowiest 24 hour period ever at the Rapid City airport.  And it’s going to keep snowing for another hour or two. At this rate so this is going to turn out to be an epic storm,” says Eric Helgeson, a Meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

In downtown Rapid City, the National Weather Service recorded 15 inches of snowfall, making it the fifth snowiest day on the record and the snowiest April 9 on record.


Snowstorm totals

Deadwood: 30 inches

Downtown Hot Springs: 28.2 inches

Rapid City airport: 25 inches

Saint Onge: 24 inches

Kyle: 24 inches

Downtown Rapid City: 23.5 inches

Box Elder: 22 inches

Martin: 21 inches

Ellsworth AFB: 21 inches

Downtown Spearfish: 19.1 inches

Whitewood: 17.3 inches

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/heavy-snow-breaks-records-in-rapid-city-see-updated-snow/article_f36efb1a-2ba4-5f0d-9bfe-ca57411dacbe.html

[Mark]

Duluth could see snow every day for the next 7 days, says the National Weather Service.


7-DAY FORECAST
•This Afternoon Snow with areas of blowing snow before 5pm, then snow likely after 5pm. High near 33. Breezy, with a northeast wind 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.
•Tonight Snow likely, mainly before 9pm. Cloudy, with a low around 22. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible.
•Saturday A 20 percent chance of snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
•Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 22. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
•Sunday Snow, mainly after 1pm. High near 33. East wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
•Sunday Night Snow, freezing rain, and sleet before 1am, then a chance of snow. Low around 27. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
•Monday A chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 38.
•Monday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27.
•Tuesday A slight chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 38.
•Tuesday Night A slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28.
•Wednesday A chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 36.
•Wednesday Night A chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around 28.
•Thursday A chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 35.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=46.78667189999999&lon=-92.10048519999998&site=all&smap=
 1&searchresult=Duluth%2C%20MN%2C%20USA

[Mark]

A vast storm that spawned tornadoes and killed three people marched toward the East Coast on Friday, delivering spring snow and ice to New England.

Parts of New Hampshire were expecting 3 to 5 inches of snow, according to meteorologists for The Weather Channel, which forecast a similar storm next week, bringing yet more snow to the Rockies, parts of the Plains and Upper Midwest as it plows east.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/12/17719227-strong-storms-march-toward-east-coast-after-killing-3-and-tearing-apart-homes?lite

[Mark]

Snow will spread from east central Minnesota and west central Wisconsin into northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin through the rest of this afternoon and into this evening.

The precipitation will mainly remain a wet and heavy snow across northeast Minnesota, but there will be a transition to a wintry mixture of precipitation across northwest Wisconsin. Much of northwest Wisconsin could see a mixture of snow, sleet, and rain this afternoon and this evening.

The highest snowfall amounts will be across northeast Minnesota where much of the region will see about 4 to 9 inches. Lesser snowfall amounts will fall across northwest Wisconsin.

Very gusty winds will occur by late afternoon around the twin ports…and expand along the north shore this evening. The combination of locally heavy snow and gusty winds will cause rapidly deteriorating travel conditions from Duluth to Grand Marais.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/wxstory.php?site=dlh

[Mark]

“Once again, another snowstorm with a historic record and still snowing at the time of this report,”

Snow report of 16.2” and still snowing at 3:50CDT:

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