Winter In The USA 2013-14

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www.thv11.com/news/article/282325/2/Wacky-weather-Storm-brings-snow-twisters-to-Pla ins

Snow measured in feet, not inches.

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Residents of Wyoming and South Dakota were digging out Saturday from a ferocious, record-setting blizzard in which one location – Deadwood, S.D. – had picked up 4 feet of snow as of midday Saturday.

In Rapid City, S.D., the total snowfall of 23.1 inches made it the city’s second-biggest snowstorm on record. At least 80 people in the Rapid City area were trapped overnight in their cars.

A storm of such magnitude happens only once every decade or two on the Plains, National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Trimarchi said.

To the east, the same storm triggered as many as 12 separate tornadoes.

In Nebraska, three deaths were blamed on the snowstorm.

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www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/us/south-dakota-blizzard-kills-herds-cattle/

South Dakota blizzard kills 20,000 head of cattle.

October 10, 2013 – SOUTH DAKOTA – Like in a scene from an apocalyptic parable, dark carcasses of cows and steers lie motionless in silent clusters across swaths of South Dakota. An early blizzard caught ranchers off guard this week in the state, killing as many as 20,000 head of cattle, a state official says. But ranchers say they are the real victims. The storm left many of them in ruins, and now Washington is leaving them out in the cold. “With the government shutdown and no farm bill in place, we need South Dakotans to help their neighbors,” Gov. Dennis Daugaard said. This year’s federal farm legislation got hung up in Congress before the shutdown. There’s no money to help the ranchers, and Daugaard is asking for donations. South Dakota’s civil air patrol did flyovers to take pictures of whole herds that keeled over together, dotting the gaping, snow-covered flatlands with big, black blotches. Ranchers who thought they were doing the right thing were blindsided, said state veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven. Now they are dazed by their losses. “

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Camanche, Iowa and East Moline, Illinois were hit the hardest.

MidAmerican Energy says 100 different incidents of trees hitting or downing power lines left more than 4,000 customers without power.

And then there was thick, dense fog. White snowflakes were visible, but not much else.

wqad.com/2013/10/22/first-october-snowfall-since-1980-leaves-thousands-without-power-others-stranded/

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...............Sioux Falls, SD breaks snowfall record .............................

Also breaks record for shortest number of days between 4-inch snowstorms Spring to Fall.

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Quote from NWS Facebook post.

“this will mark a new record for the fewest number of days between the last 4+” snowfall in the Spring and the first 4+” snowfall in the Fall. This year will only be 197 days, which would break the old record of 203 days set in 1970, and would be a full 100 days shorter than the average of 297 days for the period of record since 1893.”

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ATHENS, GA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Athens broke a record low temperature Thursday that previously stood for over 100 years.

Freeze warning issued for Atlanta, cold day ahead

The temperature dropped to 23 degrees at 5:48 a.m. Wednesday morning in Athens which broke the record low of 24 degrees previously set in 1911.
www.cbsatlanta.com/story/23961906/athens-breaks-record-low-wednesday

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21/11/13

Dangerous cold blanketed northwestern North Dakota on the heels of heavy snowfall in some areas.
The National Weather Service on Thursday morning issued an advisory for wind chills in the region as low as 30 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit).

Weather Service reports show that a system that crossed the state on Wednesday dropped as much as 6 ½ inches of snow in some areas, prompting the state Transportation Department to issue a travel alert for the northwest and north central parts of the state.

www.inforum.com/event/article/id/419047/group/homepage/

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The “Nordic outbreak,” which has already claimed eight lives, ”will end up impacting much of the nation,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Harris.

More than a foot of snow was reported on Sunday in many mountainous areas of Utah and Colorado, with almost four feet (120 cm) in Abajo Peak in southeast Utah, according to the Weather Channel.

Flagstaff, Arizona, has seen 6 inches of snow since Thursday night, according to AZ Central.

As the storm moves Northeast, snowfall is expected over Tennessee through West Virginia on Wednesday, said Weather Channel meteorologist Dr. Tom Niziol.

See entire article:
usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/24/21596548-severe-weather-threatens-holiday-travel-across-most-of-the-us?lite=

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California citrus growers worried about devastating damage.


“This cold air is going to overtake just about the entire country,” said Carl Parker, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel.

In California, temperatures Wednesday fell into the 30s in typically mild San Francisco. In the Central Valley, where 85 percent of the citrus crop is still on the vine, growers are worried about devastating damage.

In the Dakotas, the extreme cold posed a threat to cattle ranchers, who lost thousands of their stock in a blizzard in early October.

The temperature at Ely, Nev., reached minus 17 early Wednesday, and the wind chill dropped to about minus 30.

Chicago temperatures could plunge to the low teens by Friday night, while Duluth, Minnesota, could drop to minus 22F..

In Lubbock, Texas, the low Saturday morning could be below 10.

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