2) As with some previous potent winter storms and hurricanes (including Sandy), there's been a consistent focus on the computer model of the European Center for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, for short) as the best at getting details
like snowfall amounts right.
Not exact matches
«They graph the
amount of times they see the animal or how much
snowfall was out there or what the temperature was
like,» she says.
«Take unusually warm Atlantic ocean surface temperatures (temperatures are in the 70s off the coast of Virginia), add a cold Arctic outbreak (something we'll continue to get even as global warming proceeds), mix them together and you get huge
amounts of energy and moisture, and monster
snowfalls,
like we're about to see here,» said Michael Mann, a climate researcher who directs Penn State University's earth systems science center.
A historic storm
like Jonas, which dropped record
snowfall amounts on Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and up the East Coast, is a grim reminder of the inherent dangers of driving on snow packed, icy roads.