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Igloo

More snow? Next storm takes aim at Northeast


msnbc.com
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:00 UTC
There's more snow heading to the Northeast and it's expected to impact as many as 29 states. This new snow system is being called one of the more significant systems of the season.

Some state averages and current measured snow fall measures: New York Average 22" currently has seen over 45 inches. Philadelphia Average 19.3", currently seeing over 37 inches. Hartford, average 45.3, current total so far this year 71.2". This is a general trend throughout the North and East of the United States.


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Cloud Lightning

Winter Storm: East Coast Battles Another Record Breaking Snowstorm

Sam Champion,Max Golembo and Leezel Tanglao
ABC
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:13 UTC
The East Coast is gradually digging out from the record-breaking snowstorm that battered the East Coast Wednesday night, causing power outages and leaving travelers and commuters stranded.

It was the sixth snowstorm to slam into the region in the last 30 days.

Overnight, thundersnow -- the rare phenomenon in which thunder and lightning strike even in the dead of winter -- shocked residents in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, and as far away as central New Jersey. Philadelphia was hit with 17 inches of snow, totals in the Washington D.C. area ranged from 3 to 7 inches and, according to the National Weather Service, parts of New Jersey had to dig out from 19 inches.
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Igloo

Another Storm Batters Northeast

Anahad O'Connor
New York Times
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:11 UTC
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© Steve Berman/The New York TimesA limousine, unable to drive uphill going west on 57th Street in Manhattan, was pushed back onto 6th Avenue by passersby.
For at least the fifth time this season, a major snowstorm crawled up the eastern seaboard and swept across the Northeast early Thursday, dumping fresh snow on top of streets already covered in icy slush and disrupting the commutes of millions of people.

The powerful storm, appearing as a giant white smudge over the Northeast on radar maps, arrived in two parts, coating the region with rain and several inches of snow early Wednesday and then dumping up to an additional foot of snow in some places overnight Thursday.

In New York City, the wintry one-two punch caused all non-emergency city government offices to close on Thursday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced through Twitter. The Department of Education said that all public schools across the five boroughs would be closed for the day.

Across the New York region, hundreds of flights were canceled, and the Port Authority later closed Newark, Teterboro, and John F. Kennedy Airports. The Metropolitan Transit Authority suspended all of its bus services across New York City and Long Island early Thursday. The Long Island Rail Road said it would operate a reduced weekday morning schedule, while the Metro-North Railroad said its Harlem and Hudson lines would run on a Saturday schedule. The Nor'easter created a fresh sense of snow fatigue in a region that has been unusually battered by storms. Trying to prevent a repeat of the problems associated with a late December blizzard, when streets went unplowed for days, New York City sent out more than 2,000 salt spreaders, snow plows and other vehicles to clear the streets.
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Bizarro Earth

NASA infrared data sees birth of 10th tropical depression in Southern Indian Ocean near Australian coast


EurekAlert / NASA
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:56 UTC
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© NASA/JPL, Ed OlsenNASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Tropical Storm 10S on Jan. 25 at 05:53 UTC (12:53 a.m. EST). The image shows most of the coldest cloud tops (-63 Fahrenheit) and strongest thunderstorms over appear (in purple) over the Southern Indian Ocean, and some along the extreme northern coast of Western Australia. The red coloration further south is the heat of the land.
NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of the very cold clouds that house powerful thunderstorms within the Southern Indian Ocean's newest tropical depression, number 10S. The depression quickly strengthened into a tropical storm and continues to affect the northern coast of Western Australia.

When Aqua passed over the Tropical Storm 10S on January 25 at 05:53 UTC (12:53 a.m. EST), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured an infrared image of the storm's clouds. The image showed that most of the coldest cloud tops (-63 Fahrenheit/-52 Celsius) and strongest thunderstorms over appeared over the Southern Indian Ocean, and some along the extreme northern coast of Western Australia. The infrared image also showed the contrasting heat of the land.
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Bizarro Earth

Massachusetts, US: Arctic Blast Leaves Many Frozen in Place

Eric Moskowitz
Boston Globe
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00 UTC
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© Suzanne Kreiter/Boston GlobeBoston shivered yesterday in the coldest weather to hit the area in six years. Above, Keith Saviano dug out his truck from the roof down in Framingham.
Travel stalls, shelters fill, but warming on way

The coldest weather to strike Boston in six years wreaked havoc on commuters yesterday, freezing car batteries across the region and leaving thousands shivering in the bitter cold on exposed platforms as they waited for MBTA trains that either broke down or were stalled behind those that did.

An Arctic blast drove the officially recorded temperature down to minus 2 at Logan International Airport, minus 9 in Bedford, and minus 24 in the Franklin County town of Orange. Emergency responders said the region appeared to be spared death and serious injury. But hundreds called to seek heating assistance and other help coping with the extreme cold, and homeless shelters were over capacity.

Eleanor Vallier-Talbot, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton, said the minus 2 at Logan was the first sub-zero temperature in Boston in six years and matched the low of Jan. 22, 2005.

The mercury crept back above zero by midmorning and hit 10 at Logan in time for lunch. More normal January temperatures, highs in the 30s and lows in the 20s, are expected today and tomorrow, just in time for a predicted mix of snow, rain, and sleet, courtesy of a storm headed this way from the Gulf of Mexico.

The National Weather Service warned that the storm could bring coastal flooding, as well as the usual winter roadway hazards.
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Snowman

Disruptive Snow Hitting from Arkansas to the Ohio Valley

Kristina Pydynowski
AccuWeather
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:50 UTC
The corridor from Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee to the Ohio Valley has become the target of the latest cross-country snowstorm that will eventually head to the Northeast.





Places in the path of today's snow and plunging temperatures are sure to face disruptions to travel and daily routines.

Roads and sidewalks were a skating rink around Oklahoma City this morning. Freezing rain followed by a coating of snow and temperatures plunging into the teens led to numerous accidents and prompted officials to close schools.

A similar fate with precipitation and plunging temperatures is likely around Little Rock, Ark. this afternoon and Memphis this evening.

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Igloo

US: Snow for the Frigid Midwest, Great Lakes

Kristina Pydynowski
AccuWeather
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:51 UTC
The Great Lakes and Midwest will not only have to endure brutal cold through this weekend, but also snow from the lake-effect snow machine and an Alberta clipper.




Lake-effect snow is already under way across the western Great Lakes, and will continue to develop downwind of lakes Erie and Ontario as today progresses and frigid air invades the Northeast.

The AccuWeather.com Winter Weather Center is expecting up to several inches of snow to accumulate to the lee of the Great Lakes today.

Snow-covered, slick roadways will create travel hazards for motorists. Bitterly cold winds will worsen the situation by blowing and drifting the snow.

Poor visibility is an added danger where the most intense bands unleash a heavy burst of snow.

One of these intense lake-effect bands will continue to develop in the vicinity of Syracuse, N.Y., today. The heaviest totals from this band will approach a foot into tonight north of the city.

As the lake-effect snow machine cranks up, an Alberta clipper will continue to deliver snow to the northern and central Plains today.

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© AccuWeather.comThe Alberta clipper and its nuisance snow will move through the Great Lakes this weekend, especially during the first half
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Igloo

New record cold temperatures in Minnesota

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:46 UTC
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Babbitt, Minnesota where a frigid morning low temperature of -46 degrees was recorded on January 21, 2011.
From NWS Duluth, MN, an old record beaten by five degrees:
Record weather event
National Weather Service Duluth, Minnesota

5:18 PM CST. Fri Jan 21, 2011

...Record Low Temperature Set At International Falls, Minnesota...

A record low temperature of -46 degrees F was set at International Falls, Minnesota today. This breaks the old record of -41 F set in 1954.
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Igloo

US: Minus 36 degrees, minus 50 degrees in places! Two die as Arctic comes to Northeast


MSNBC
Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:36 UTC
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© Mark Lennihan / Associated PressA wind chill made it feel like a few degrees below zero Monday morning as these folks waited for a bus in New York City.
Two people froze to death, including one woman whose frozen body was found on a driveway, as an Arctic blast hit the northern U.S., dropping temperatures as low as minus 36 degrees.

The wind chill in some areas of New England was expected to make it feel as cold as 50 degrees below zero.

Schools in western and northeastern Pennsylvania, across upstate New York and parts of Vermont and New Hampshire closed their doors or delayed openings to protect students.

In upstate New York, the National Weather Service issued wind chill advisories and warnings for much of the region on Monday, including the Adirondacks where the low was 36 below in Saranac Lake early Monday morning.

The Arctic temperatures led Amtrak to suspend rail service Monday morning between Albany and New York City because the extreme cold affected signals and switches. Amtrak hoped to resume limited service between the two cities later Monday. Other rail lines are still running.

In Montpelier, Vt., it was 21 below at 7 a.m.

"Snot-freezing cold," was how Kelly Walsh, 28, described it, walking home from an auto parts store after buying a new battery for her car, which wouldn't start Monday morning.

"I usually really like it. Today is a bit of nuisance," she said.

Others agreed.

Will Forest, a 53-year-old web designer who was walking to work, called the cold "indescribable."
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Stop

UK: M45 shut for hours by freezing rain


BBC
Sun, 09 Jan 2011 07:45 UTC
The UK M45 motorway was shut for several hours by the Highways Agency for safety reasons after freezing rain fell.

Officials said the decision to shut the motorway, in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, was taken after two minor collisions early on Sunday.

The M45 was shut at about 0500 GMT to allow salt spreading to take place and it reopened westbound at about 0950 GMT and eastbound at 1030 GMT.

The agency said the motorway had been treated overnight.
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