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Post by sky on Feb 6, 2013 14:59:08 GMT 12
05 February 2013 | Issue 5062 By Roland Oliphant The heaviest snowfall in a century brought Moscow and the surrounding region to a near standstill and left hundreds of people without power, officials said Tuesday. And with snowfall set to continue at least until the end of the week, the authorities are bracing for more chaos on the roads. "There hasn't been such a winter in 100 years," Pyotr Biryukov, deputy mayor for residential issues, said Tuesday in comments carried by Interfax. "The snow this year has already reached one and a half times the climatic norm," he said. The capital has seen 216 centimeters of snow fall since the beginning of winter, Biryukov said. Average snowfall in Moscow is 152 centimeters a year. Biryukov said the city saw 26 centimeters in the 24 hours preceding his Tuesday afternoon news conference and has seen 36 centimeters since the beginning of February. The heavy snowfall that struck the city Monday quickly led to chaos on the roads. The Yandex Probki traffic monitoring service reached a full 10 points, and on Monday evening it issued the seldom-seen warning that "it's quicker to walk." Moscow traffic police said Tuesday that they had counted more than 3,000 minor traffic accidents in the previous 24 hours, far exceeding the daily average for the city. "There were 3,160 small traffic accidents in Moscow over the past day," a police spokesman said. The average number of traffic accidents in the city is between 1,500 and 2,500 per day, he said. Monday's unprecedented number of fender benders stems from traffic violations by drivers due to difficult conditions. Snowfall is set to continue for the rest of the week but should slowly ease off, with forecasters predicting just 2 centimeters a day until Friday. Read more: www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/heaviest-snowfall-in-a-century-hits-moscow/475102.html#ixzz2K598NbsJ The Moscow Times |
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Post by sky on Feb 7, 2013 16:09:10 GMT 12
A winter storm heading for the Northeast could bring major snowfall to upstate New York and New England on Friday and into the weekend, according to Weather Channel meteorologist Kevin Roth. However, there is uncertainty as to exactly where the snow will fall. The whole region could see significant snow with up to 2 feet dumped on Massachusetts – including Boston – and southern Maine overnight Friday. That level of snow is “potentially life-threatening,” the Weather Channel’s Chris Warren warned. The last time Boston had one foot of snow was in January 2011. Other forecasts call for the snow to fall further east, meaning that northern New England could see heavy snow, but cities such as Boston could receive as little as 2 inches. Meanwhile, another clipper will bring more snow from the northern plains into the Great Lakes Wednesday night into Thursday. Forecasts call for 1 to 4 inches of snow from northeast North Dakota to northern Wisconsin. See entire articles: usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/06/16864934-snowstorm-alert-northeast-braces-for-possible-winter-blockbuster?lite www.weather.com/newscenter/nationalforecast/ |
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Post by Bishopdale Weather on Feb 9, 2013 8:10:49 GMT 12
February 8, 2013 – BOSTON, MA – A crippling and potentially historic winter storm barreled toward the Northeast on Thursday, threatening tens of millions of people with 2 feet of snow. Boston canceled school and braced for one of its worst blizzards of all time. Airlines encouraged fliers to change their plans and get out of the way. There were already delays of more than two hours at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, where tangles can snarl air traffic across the country, and hundreds of flights were canceled. The culprits were a so-called clipper system moving through the Upper Midwest and a low-pressure system headed for the waters off New England. When they converge, probably late Friday, they are expected to sock the region with its heaviest snow in at least two years, and perhaps much longer. “When this hits, it’s going to come down very hard,” said Tom Niziol, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. “This is something we haven’t seen in a while, particularly in New England.” The National Weather Service put the New York City area and Long Island under a blizzard warning and said those areas could get more than a foot of snow. Earlier in the day, the weather service warned that travel in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island could become nearly impossible. Forecasts called for as much as 9 inches of snow across central Michigan, a foot and a half in the Hudson Valley region of New York, and 2 feet or more across coastal New England. Possible hurricane-force winds off Massachusetts and Rhode Island also made flooding a threat. In Boston, the storm had the potential to take out century-old records. The city’s biggest snowstorms since 1892 were a 27.5-inch blast in February 2003 and a 27.1-inch dumping exactly 35 years ago, in 1978. Mayor Thomas Menino closed city schools for Friday and pleaded for common sense. Millions of Americans brace for a massive storm that threatens to pummel the Northeast and dump more than 2 feet of snow on parts of New England. TODAY’s Al Roker shows which areas of the North and Northeast will be hit by snow, wind gusts and coastal flooding. Stay off the streets of our city,” he said. “Basically, stay home.” for survivors of Hurricane Sandy, including thousands of people still displaced and many more with disrupted lives, it was more serious. A much smaller snowstorm followed Sandy in late October. “People were just miserable, unhappy, and it started to get cold,” Annie Petraro of Long Island told NBC New York. “Things just weren’t good. And now it’s freezing, it’s gonna snow.” The Long Island Power Authority, which was strongly criticized for a slow response to the hurricane, said that it was planning for this one and making sure it had enough people working and enough supplies. More than 130 flights into and out of O’Hare were canceled Thursday, and more than 70 were already canceled for Friday, according to FlightAware.com. More than 400 flights into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport were canceled for Friday, as were 100 for Boston Logan. -NBC
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Post by sky on Feb 14, 2013 17:52:38 GMT 12
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Post by sky on Feb 14, 2013 17:59:49 GMT 12
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Post by sky on Feb 17, 2013 7:51:41 GMT 12
Walls of snow up to nine meters (29½ ft) high – More than three stories deep! Nobody remembers this much snow on this port Navarre. In the port of Belagua have formed snow walls up to nine meters. The avalanche risk is 3 out of 5 and is therefore allowed in special teams. Turbofresadoras and plow and clear the road. Nobody remembers this much snow on this port Navarre. The image is spectacular. Click here for the video www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20130215/54366755022/el-puerto-navarro-de-belagua-desaparece-bajo-la-nieve.html |
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Post by sky on Feb 20, 2013 16:39:30 GMT 12
A MAJOR winter storm is expected to bring a foot or more of snow to mountainous areas of California on Tuesday before turning inland and striking as far northeast as Chicago and the Midwest, the National Weather Service said. Mountainous parts of Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura counties in California were under winter storm warnings, and snow could present a danger on mountain highways, including I-15, the weather service said. The storm is expected to dump widespread snowfall across the mountains of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and parts of Arizona on Wednesday and Thursday, Weather.com reported. Weather Channel meteorologist Nick Wiltgen said the storm could bring snowfalls of up to an inch an hour for several hours, and produce double-digit snowfalls along the I-80 corridor. Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri are in the crosshairs, and some computer models suggest that Chicago will get heavy snow late in the week. usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/19/17014410-winter-storm-to-hit-us-from-calif-to-midwest?lite= |
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Post by sky on Feb 21, 2013 16:50:34 GMT 12
A major winter storm — possibly the region’s biggest in two years — could bring more than 10 inches of snow to northern Missouri and significant ice accumulations over central Missouri,” says The Kansas City Star. A Winter Storm Watch has been issued for the Kansas City region. The watch covers Atchison, Miami, Linn, Leavenworth, Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas and Buchanan, Clinton, Caldwell, Platte, Clay, Ray, Jackson, Lafayette, Cass, Johnson, Bates and Henry counties in Missouri. That includes the cities of Leavenworth, Overland Park, Olathe, St. Joseph, Parkville, Platte City, Weston, Liberty, Kansas City, Harrisonville and Pleasant Hill. www.kansascity.com/2013/02/19/4074304/biggest-winter-storm-in-2-years.html |
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Post by sky on Feb 22, 2013 7:58:43 GMT 12
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Post by sky on Feb 22, 2013 8:01:58 GMT 12
Now rescued, all the shepherds were suffering from snow blindness, hypothermia, hypertension and cold injuries. Their sheep – more than 200 – succumbed. Twenty shepherds trapped for close to a week in snow 3½-feet (1.07 meters) deep in Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir were rescued on Thursday by jawans of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in a three-day operation. The shepherds, along with their livestock, were stuck in the upper reaches of Ladakh due to unprecedented snowfall before ITBP rescued them. Several of them have suffered snow blindness and are in critical condition. Their livestock, however, could not survive. The shepherds, called ‘riboos’ in the local language, were trapped in Hanley-Chumur area of Ladakh and had lost all contact with their families. They had also run out of food and hadn’t eaten for days. When the ITBP team found them after a day-long trek in the snow clad area, the security personnel found 20 shepherds, including seven women and five children, with more than 200 dead sheep. The shepherds were immediately provided medical aid and some of them were brought to the base on stretchers. “This year, Ladakh received unprecedented, record breaking snowfall in the month of February which perhaps led the riboos to miscalculate the weather. Due to the heavy snowfall, the rescue mission to evacuate these shepherds was a very difficult task. Our men had to plough themselves miles in the snow before they located these men, women and children,” a senior Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) official said. The snow was 3.5-feet deep and temperatures were as low as minus 20 degrees when the operation was being conducted, the official said. www.reachladakh.com/itbp-rescues-20-shepherds-stranded-in-heavy-ladakh-snow/1427.html |
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Post by sky on Feb 24, 2013 7:43:27 GMT 12
February 23, 2013 – GEORGIA – It will be a messy weekend in the Northeast and the Deep South as the massive weather system that walloped 20 states with a snowstorm rolls off towards the Atlantic Ocean. A winter storm is expected to deposit up to 10 inches of snow in isolated pockets of western Massachusetts, and 6 inches to a foot in parts of southern Vermont and New Hampshire, and central Maine. This is not the same storm that blanketed the Great Plains, said CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri, although it is part of the same overall system that spans the country from north to south. It will be much less intense, he said, and it should not affect the places hardest hit by the blizzard that plastered the Northeast two weeks ago, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers. Boston will likely see a slushy mix of rain and snow that could lead to downed branches and power lines, Javaheri said. Rain will continue to soak the eastern United States from Washington, D.C., on down, especially Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. “Across the Southeast, some of the rainfall totals are going to be staggering,” said CNN Meteorologist Karen McGinnis. Parts of the central Southeast should get 4 — 6 inches of rainfall. The outgoing system will have made its mark on virtually the entire country from the southwest corner of California to central Maine, leaving its deepest imprint on Kansas. Wichita saw its second-highest storm snowfall total on record with 14.2 inches over two days, the National Weather Service said. The town of Russell in the state’s middle lay under a 22 inch layer of white by the time the storm roared by. Missouri was not far behind, with accumulations of around a foot in some places. The snow set a record at Kansas City International Airport, with 9 inches falling in a single day. The old record was 5.1 inches set in 2010. Some businesses and universities shut down Thursday as state officials urged residents to stay off the roads. The white blanket emptied the streets of Kansas City. –CNN
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Post by sky on Feb 25, 2013 17:56:10 GMT 12
A powerful storm system ejected out of the southern Rockies and into the plains on February 21st and brought some of the highest snowfall amounts this area has seen in decades. As of 7 pm on February 21st the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport has measured a storm total snowfall of 14.2 inches which makes this storm the 2nd worst on record! The highest storm total snowfall for Wichita occurred back in 1962 when a storm dumped 15 inches. One of the more unique aspects of this storm was the amount of thundersnow that took place during the early morning hours of February 21st. Below is video taken from a security camera at the National Weather Service in Wichita showing the lightning associated with the thundersnow. www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ict&storyid=92760&source=0 |
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Post by sky on Feb 27, 2013 16:21:50 GMT 12
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
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Post by sky on Feb 28, 2013 15:50:47 GMT 12
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 ! www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ict&storyid=92886&source=0 |
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