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February 2008 Entries
Friday Featured Fotos: Mount Washington
BREAKING NEWS FRIDAY NIGHT: Clipper Brings Over A Foot of Snow To PA!It's time again for Friday Featured Fotos! This week's Friday Featured Fotos video blog showcases photos from "The Home of the World's Worst Weather" - Mount Washington, New...
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Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 7:16 PM
In this blog I show the final AccuWeather.com and NWS predictions for snow amounts from this clipper system. The bottom line is that interior New England will be getting over 6 inches of snow from this system, with 3-6" for...
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Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 12:46 PM
UPDATE: Blog reader Greg points out that the number for North Bay, ON is incorrect, however I do not have a replacement graphic, so I am just going to correct it in the text below. It should be 111", not...
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Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:04 PM
The NWS hasn't said it, but it sure looks like from radar that Long Island Sound-Effect snow occurred overnight, and is still occurring, over Suffolk county on Long Island. In their SPS they called it "A PERSISTENT BAND OF LIGHT...
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Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:03 PM
I'd like to say welcome to those of you who are reading my blog on your wireless device or cell phone today. Last night at midnight, we launched a brand new wireless website for AccuWeather.com, including advanced forecast and radar...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:31 PM
TALK ABOUT IT ON THE FORUMS: Northeast Winter Storm March 3-4The DGEX Forecast Model [JessePedia] has changed its mind this morning about the storm on the 4th - heavy snow still follows behind the front, but only to central...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:43 PM
UPDATE: Based on this NWS release (and comparing to the previous one), these incredible reports have now come out of Tennessee:Mount Leconte [Google Map]: 17.0"Newfound Gap: 12.0"High Country Webcams This Morning And Afternoon For Banner Elk, NC (ironically with a...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:10 PM
TALK ABOUT IT ON THE FORUMS: Southeast Winter Storm Mar. 3-4The DGEX has changed its mind this morning about the storm on the 4th - not about the strength or placement of the storm, but about the amount of...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:06 PM
The question this morning is: Could most of the Deep South and even the Florida Panhandle get a snow storm next week? The answer is yes... if you ask the DGEX model. It's outputting some truly impressive maps this morning,...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:07 PM
Parts of Texas were in the 90's today, with northeast Mexico hitting the century mark. Officially, both Del Rio and Laughlin hit 98 degrees, but Piedras Negras, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico, which is right on the border [Google Map], hit...
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Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 11:14 PM
NOTE: Alert blog reader Justin pointed out that the video below was about Green Bay, not Madison, as I had originally said. My apologies to those in Madison :)UPDATE: A number of you wrote in to say that you had...
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Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:20 PM
Snowfall map:ENLARGE | ZOOM TO NEW ENGLANDLogan Airport Snow Trouble - Feb. 22, 2008 - Plows clear snow near a gate area at Logan Airport in Boston during a winter storm Friday, Feb. 22, 2008. Scattered delays and cancellations were...
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Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:41 PM
One more update at 11 PM as precip moves off the New England coast... more comprehensive list & radar loop tomorrow. Here are the final snowfall amounts from the Midwest / East Coast winter storm, highest per state as reported...
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Posted on Friday, February 22, 2008 6:54 PM
UPDATE: Chris Burt [JessePedia], Author of "Extreme Weather" , wrote in to say that large snowflakes are indeed quite rare and he believes this is the first video documentation of them. He asked if I measured their drop spots to...
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Posted on Friday, February 22, 2008 3:48 PM
Ken Clark (PREMIUM | PRO) sent me this video last week from the California Wolf Center's webcam. It shows two neat things... 1: Wolves, everywhere (cute!) and 2.) A rare video showing snow accumulating over the period of a day....
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Posted on Friday, February 22, 2008 2:09 AM
BLOG UPDATE: Radar, satellite loops added to "Cool Lake-Effect Radar Loops"UPDATE: Here's the GFS 12Z, in (remarkable?) agreement, although again I would caution that these amounts could be lowered when freezing rain or sleet fall on top of the snow....
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Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:07 PM
It strikes me that we have a potentially dangerous travel situation currently here in Central Pennslyvania, and points south. An unusual combination of circumstances is causing roads here to snow or ice over very quickly:1. Temperatures are around 20 degrees,...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:18 PM
UPDATE: As promised, a longer loop of the MCV has been placed online (download the GRR2 loop). My Buddy Scott [JessePedia] has also posted a huge satellite loop showing a second MCV on his blog.ORIGINAL POST:The lake-effect snow machine was...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:24 PM
With apologies to snow geese in the Northeast... check out this video from Montreal, Quebec, Canada [Google Map] courtesy CTV:NOTE: THE VIDEO ABOVE MAY BE PRECEDED BY ADVERTISEMENTSStay tuned tomorrow for Part 2, where I'll show incredible photos and stories...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:34 PM
UPDATE: Here are a couple of graphics that we have created to show how unusual this year has been so far, when you add up all the Tornado Reports:ORIGINAL REPORT: The NWS has completed damage surveys from Sunday's tornadoes in...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:08 PM
South American weather service Metsul (blog in Portugese) reports that a rare large tornado struck the coastal city of Tubarão in Brazil, and they send these photos (and one video) by Valdir Zaccaron:Below is a radar image showing the hook...
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Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 11:04 PM
UPDATE MONDAY MORNING: Here is a more detailed map of the severe weather report locations. Over 100 severe weather reports, including 34 tornadoes, were received according to the The WeatherMatrix StormMatrix. OTHER NEWS ON OUR FORUMS: Mid-Atlantic Snow Storm Mid-Week...
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Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:19 PM
Below are some incredible high-res satellite shots from the Navy Tropical site of Cyclone Ivan today. International expert Jim Andrews (PREMIUM | PRO) says that the cyclone is the equivalent of a Category 4 Hurricane and is bearing down on...
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Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:36 PM
It's time again for Friday Featured Fotos! This week we're taking a look at photos of Wind Turbines (which hold the (possible) promise of clean, renewable energy) from all over the world.So relax, it's Friday, and join me as I...
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Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 7:10 PM
UPDATE: Blog reader "Bee" points out that the number of tornadoes has increased considerably since the article below was written. WikiPedia puts that number at 80 twisters. Blog reader "RM" points out that 40% of Gassville, AR (6 mi SW...
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Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 12:40 PM
UPDATE: Here are some maps showing the snowfall coverage and amounts. This first one shows the approximate snow reports from the entire storm (although there is some lake-effect in NY). NOTES: 1. These maps do not include most of the...
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Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:56 PM
UPDATE: Here are some photos that I took yesterday. You can see photos from blog readers via the ADCPG below.ORIGINAL REPORT: The storm system gripping the Eastern United States this morning brought tornadoes to the Southeast last night while ice...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:24 PM
Blog reader "J" (who is not me) emailed me Monday night about a strange severe-looking circulation heading towards Houston, Texas. I investigated this yesterday and believe it to be a great example of a Mesoscale Convective Vortex, a type of...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:27 AM
A tornado has touched down at Cocoa Beach, near Cape Canaveral, Florida. Channel 10 has an account of the event along with photos and video. You can download reflectivity and velocity radar loops of the storm here.This isn't much to...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:10 PM
UPDATE 5 PM: I don't know how much we've got here in State College (I'll find out when I go out do run the snowblower for the second time) but it's coming down hard and getting difficult to drive in...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:44 PM
Pictorial Update to go with my story below (we're up to 9 degrees at noon!). P.S.: Minneapolis, Minnesota fell to -40, only one degree away from the all-time record low for the state.OTHER NEWS ON OUR FORUMS: Early Week Northeast...
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 1:34 PM
Residents of southwest Missouri, northern Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma and southeast Kansas awoke to thunder and freezing rain Monday morning. A look at the observations in the area at 7 AM Central Time showed four sites reporting thunder, with 3 of...
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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 10:56 AM
Here are some additional tornado and damage photos from the Super Tuesday outbreak. I will try to integrate some of them into the Google Earth KML tomorrow.Photos from Michael McEvoy, Meteorologist at WBBJ ABC-7 Jackson, TN:MORE PHOTOS: From NWS-Little Rock...
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 5:22 PM
We're getting a decent (3-4") snow this morning here in Central PA and readers are discussing it over on the AccuWeather.com Forums. Because of the warm temperatures, it is sticking quite well. Here is a set of pics and a...
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Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 3:10 PM
In the video blog below, I show you in 3-D, with Google Earth, some of the locations of the deadly tornadoes that struck the Southeast during the Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak, and link them to video and photos of the...
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Posted on Friday, February 08, 2008 4:23 PM
Due to the historical tornado outbreak in the Southeast on Super Tuesday, Friday Featured Fotos will not be seen this week. In memory of the dozens killed by the storms, please take this time to donate to the Red Cross...
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Posted on Friday, February 08, 2008 12:00 PM
The death toll has now reached 55, according to API, and the SPC has raised their number of tornado reports to over 90. NOAA has made available a preliminary tornado track map from the Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak, along with...
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Posted on Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:53 PM
UPDATE: Raw radar animations available here. The Associated Press says "The death toll ranks among the top 15 from tornado outbreaks since 1950." More videos coming soon.As the sun rises this morning, we begin to see damage video from last...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 12:58 PM
At 8:30 PM Central... over 24 tornado reports... some of the more interesting ones...NEAR CROFTON, KY: NUMEROUS HOUSES DAMAGED OR DESTROYED AND PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED IN HOMES...JACKSON, TN: 7 TRACTOR TRAILERS BLOWN OVER AT MILE MARKER 70... NEAR ABBEVILLE, MS:...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:36 PM
UPDATE 12 PM: The high risk area has been extended to the Northeast, nearly doubling in size. Below is an image showing the earlier (paler colors) and newest Risk areas. Western Tennessee and the point at which TN/KY/MO/IL/AR meet are...
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Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:50 PM
I was really hyped last year when the Associated Press* (whose photos are always great) took a really stunning photo of a tornado in Canada. But this week, I have to give them kudos once again for these incredible photos...
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Posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 11:30 PM
I published a blog entry last week about a town in Oregon which was buried by unusual amounts of snowfall this season. Add to that these reports from Colorado today:- Six states have reported two feet or more of snow...
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Posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 8:05 PM
The SPC has issued a MODERATE RISK for parts of the Deep South on Tuesday. It's pretty rare for SPC to issue a Moderate Risk on Day 2, and it's unusual for one to be issued at all this time...
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Posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 2:30 PM
UPDATE: Here's a look at how closely the severe (hail) reports were to the winter (snow / sleet / freezing rain) reports (courtesy our GIS Pro Business Site):This is one of those rare situations where you see balls of ice...
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Posted on Sunday, February 03, 2008 11:59 PM
That's right, folks, it's that time of the week again, time for another J-SHOW, where we take a look at funny weather graphics and find out what's going on in the world of weather, technology, and my brain.WARNING: THE J-SHOW...
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Posted on Sunday, February 03, 2008 7:53 PM
Check out this video from affiliate KOIN:NOTE: THE VIDEO ABOVE MAY BE PRECEDED BY ADVERTISEMENTSAn Oregon town about 90 miles from Portland is buried in 13-feet of snow, and more is on the way. Detroit, Oregon has declared a snow...
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Posted on Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:28 PM
According to news sources, Punxsutawney Phil, the official groundhog in Pennsylvania, saw his shadow and was scared back into his hole this Saturday morning. This, of course, means six more weeks of winter. (Cheesetastic) Ben Hughes, one of the handlers...
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Posted on Saturday, February 02, 2008 4:53 PM
IN OTHER WEATHER NEWS: News Reports: Groundhog Sees ShadowHere is a final list of snowfall amounts in the Northeast, highest amount per state, from NWS Spotter reports. You can find ice amounts on yesterday's blog entry. Gray, Maine reported 0.2"...
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Posted on Saturday, February 02, 2008 3:26 PM
It's time again for Friday Featured Fotos! This week we're taking a look at Homemade, or DIY (Do-It-Yourself) weather.So relax, it's Friday, and join me as I take a look at some of the best photos in the AccuWeather.com Weather...
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Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 7:04 PM
UPDATE: 9 PM: Some snowfall totals are starting to come in from New England...Portage, ME: 6.0"Pinkham Notch, NH: 5.5"Ogdensburg, NY: 4.5"Strafford, VT: 3.5"UPDATE: Ron's ice photos from the mountains above Johnstown, PA are really impressive. We are now using a...
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Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 2:29 PM
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