50 Inches of Snow, Nuke Plant Ice, More Records
The impressive snow amounts continue this morning courtesy continued lake-effect (storm-total list below). In addition, the cold outbreak is causing more trouble. The CBC says that ice in the river is causing trouble for two New Jersey nuclear plants (which presumably have not had to deal with that problem before). In Maryland, 1,400 lost power when their switching equipment froze with temperatures near zero, and had to be torched back into operation.
NWS SPOTTERS:
Fulton, NY: 52.5" Perrysburg, NY: 42.0" Lacona, NY: 38.6" Marion, NY: 36.1"
SKI SLOPE REPORTS:
Cockaigne, NY: 43" Peak'n Peek, NY: 40" Bretton Woods, NH: 40"
Other records include the 2nd snowiest December at Atlantic City and Wilmington, DE, saying nothing of Philadelphia who set their all-time 2nd largest snow storm total and snowiest December record. The NWS in Burlington has made their all-time snow storm total record official (which I spoke about yesterday).
The record cold and snow outbreak is not limited to the northern U.S.; Florida had their coldest night since 2001 and Seoul, South Korea saw their heaviest snowfall in 70 years. Beijing's temperature fell to the lowest in 29 years and a lake froze over in Scotland that hadn't since 1979.
No word if the Fulton 52.5" is a record; they may not maintain enough data there to determine that. And just so everybody knows, that's nowhere near the record storm total for lake-effect, which I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) was 147 inches.
The air was so cold that you could see it on the Enhanced Infrared image Monday (specifically most of the white area in Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri is snow cover, which shows up even better on this visible satellite animation):
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