Sentences with phrase «snowfall records during»

According to the NOAA, numerous areas of the country set snowfall records during the months of March and April.

Not exact matches

However, winters in northern North America have set records for cold temperatures and snowfall, with an increase in devastating tornadoes in the south during La Niña events.

During the record - breaking snowfalls that pummeled the Midwest, checking the all - wheel - drive box was a no - brainer.

During the winter months record snowfalls create a paradise for downhill skiing, snowboarding and cross country skiing.

Records of thaw and freeze dates for lake and river ice start with Lake Suwa in Japan in 1444, and extensive records of snowfall in China were made during the Qing Dynasty (1644 —Records of thaw and freeze dates for lake and river ice start with Lake Suwa in Japan in 1444, and extensive records of snowfall in China were made during the Qing Dynasty (1644 —records of snowfall in China were made during the Qing Dynasty (1644 — 1912).

In fact, the jet stream swung north to latitudes never before observed at that time of year; the winds during July reversed their normal pattern, and southern Greenland — where melting has been at record levels for most of the decade — actually saw more snowfall and lower melting in 2015.

«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.

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.

The problem is that temperatures during January were the highest on record and snowfall has been sparse.