Many recent events, such
as record snowfalls in the US during the winters of 2009 - 10 and 2010 - 11, are consistent with this mechanism — it's easy to see that they were caused by blocking in the jet stream when Arctic amplification was particularly high.
Not exact matches
Hundreds of flights were disrupted Saturday
as a severe spring storm threatened to dump
record snowfall on parts of the Midwestern U.S.
The executive order seemed especially peculiar when juxtaposed with other stories on nature's inherent «unfairness,» such
as a winter of
record snowfall and the January earthquake in Los Angeles.
The timing couldn't be more perfect
as most of the country is dealing with
record - breaking temperatures and crazy amounts of
snowfall.
They can be skiing in the morning (world -
record snowfall at the mountain just 30 minutes away, but seldom in the Valley), launch their boat to picnic at a nearby island in the afternoon, and ride the motorcycle or horses
as an after - dinner wind - down.
Recent
record snowfall months have coincided with unusually warm water in the lakes, lack of ice, leading to more open water for more evaporation, Feb, 2007
as an example.
It's been a busy day on the incomplete - reporting - of - climate front, even
as some computer models are painting an all - time
record snowfall for Washington DC tomorrow.
Fargo, North Dakota is an extreme example of this
as the town set a new
record for latest 1 - inch (3 cm)
snowfall.
2018 has been no exception with extreme cold and
record snowfalls affecting vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere with rare snow touching down in areas
as far south
as Southern Morocco, and the Sahara desert.
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As the meteorologist Jeff Masters points out in his excellent blog at Weather Underground, the two major storms that hit Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., this winter — in December and during the first weekend of February — are already among the 10 heaviest
snowfalls those cities have ever
recorded.
A combination of changes in El Niño and the Arctic Oscillation (which is closely related to the North Atlantic Oscillation) has been identified
as the immediate driver of the heavy
snowfall experienced by the mid-Atlantic states in the United States during the winter of 2010.8 The warm tropical Atlantic contributed extra moisture to the
record snows.
Concord, New Hampshire
recorded its second - largest single day
snowfall in history
as 22.5» fell between 3 pm on Saturday and 7 pm on Sunday.