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USA's winter forecast: Mild for Midwest, dry in Southeast |
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Written by Dan
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
 WASHINGTON (AP) — Winter looks likely to be mild in the Midwest and dry in the Southeast, the government said Thursday. Warmer-than-average temperatures are expected for the nation's center, especially Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center said above normal readings are also likely in a large area extending from New Mexico, Colorado and Nebraska in the west to southeastern South Dakota and southern Wisconsin. Most of Michigan is in the warm area, which extends east to western New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, the western edge of Virginia and North Carolina and northern Georgia. The rest of the 48 contiguous states have equal chances of being warmer or cooler than normal, the forecast said. Most of Alaska is expected to be warmer than normal, as are the westernmost of the Hawaiian islands. The Big Island of Hawaii is expected to be cooler than usual for winter, which meteorologists define as December through February. Turning to rain and snowfall, the outlook is for wetter than normal for the season in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas. Dryer than normal is expected the southeastern and Gulf Coast states, extending westward across Texas to New Mexico and most of Arizona. The strongest chance for unusually dry weather is in north Florida, southern Georgia and the coastal Carolinas, as well as along the southern New Mexico-Arizona border. The rest of the country, including Alaska and Hawaii, have equal changes of wetter, dryer or normal conditions. The forecasters said long term forecasts are especially challenging this year because neither the El Nino or La Nina conditions are underway in the Pacific Ocean. Those warmer or cooler-than-normal water readings tend to affect climate across the country. Because other patterns are harder to predict, Michael Halpert, deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center, said, "We expect variability, or substantial changes in temperature and precipitation across much of the country."  |
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Heavy lake-effect snow blasts Great Lakes |
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Written by Dan
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 CONSTABLEVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A blast of cold wind spread snow along the Great Lakes from Michigan to New York on Monday, dumping 2 feet on this central New York town. Snow doesn't usually fall this early in Constableville, librarian Dorothy Valenti said. "Yesterday morning we had none. So it's quite a transition to go from no snow to all this. When you open the door, it's amazing," she said in a telephone interview. "It's strange to have a snow day before Thanksgiving." Moisture from the lakes produced lake-effect snow on the eastern and southern shores of the lakes. The deepest was in this snow-prone section of New York, where the National Weather Service said 24 inches had fallen at Constableville, at the east end of Lake Ontario on the Tug Hill Plateau. In western New York, moisture from Lake Erie had turned into 23 inches of snow by midmorning at Ellicottville, south of Buffalo. In northwest Pennsylvania, Erie reported as much as 14 inches of snow Monday morning and several schools districts in the region closed or delayed classes. Police reported numerous accidents on slippery roads in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. The weather system producing the snow was moving toward the southeast, and a foot of snow was forecast in parts of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio on Tuesday. It wasn't the first snowstorm this season in the Northeast. In late October, a storm spread just over a foot of snow over parts of northern New Jersey, northeast Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains and New York's Catskill Mountains, and heavy snow also fell at higher elevations of northern New England. |
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Floodwaters recede in Washington state |
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Written by Dan
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
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SEATTLE (AP) — The National Weather Service says showers should be ending, followed by mostly dry weather through the weekend in Washington. That should keep western Washington rivers receding and help dry out areas saturated by repeated rains. Although flood crests are moving downstream, flood warnings remain in effect Thursday for the Skokomish, Snoqualmie, Snohomish, Puyallup, Nisqually and Cowlitz Rivers. There have been no reports of serious injuries or significant damage from this week's flooding in western Washington, although many roads have been closed and dozens of houses have been evacuated. Forecasters expect mostly sunny skies Thursday and Friday in eastern Washington, turning partly cloudy through the weekend. |
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Written by Dan
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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Cuba put aside the work of recovering from the two powerful hurricanes that have already struck this storm season to prepare for Hurricane Paloma spinning toward the eastern half of the island. Hurricane Paloma strengthened into a "major" Category 3 hurricane as it neared the British territory of the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean, US forecasters said. The storm's maximum sustained winds increased to 185 kilometres per hour, the US National Hurricane Centre said. While Paloma was less powerful than hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which raked Cuba two months ago, it posed a new threat to a region where homes, power lines, roads and other infrastructure were still being repaired and damage to agriculture has contributed to a national food shortage. The damage has come at a delicate time for Cuba as new President Raul Castro shepherds the communist country following the retirement of aging and ailing revolutionary leader Fidel Castro earlier this year, and as world economic woes force Cubans to tighten their belts. Cuban officials said they had evacuated at least 85,000 boarding school students and would soon begin moving people from flood-prone areas ahead of the storm's landfall late on Saturday (local time). State-run television showed workers covering stores of goods with plastic to protect them from the storm and young people hastily picking fruit from trees to salvage as much of the harvest as possible. In ranching areas, cattle were being moved to higher ground. To ease potential flooding, water was being released from reservoirs still full from Ike's torrential rains. Cubans in the projected storm path viewed Paloma's approach with resignation. "Bad luck, friend. Looks like this year they want to demolish us in every way," said Antonio Linares, a tourism worker in Holguin province. "There was already a lot of destruction [from the earlier storms] We don't get out of one hurricane before another one comes," said Genoveva Licea in Granma province. Source: Reuters |
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First Winter Storm of 2008-2009 Season |
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Written by Dan
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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24-Hour Snowfall Reports Ending Friday MorningThe first winter storm of the season affected southeast South Dakota, southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa. The storm brought winds gusting over 50 mph to the area on Thursday night in addition to snow and blowing snow. The heaviest snowfall was along Highway 14 from Brookings to Marshall where 3 to 7 inches of snow has already fallen through Friday morning. However most areas received from 1 to 3 inches of snow - primarily north of a line from Lake Andes, South Dakota to Spencer, Iowa. 24 HOUR SNOWFALL DATA IN INCHES...FOR SOUTH DAKOTA
...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...ENDING
AT 10 AM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7 2008.
...SOUTH DAKOTA... SNOWFALL
WHITEWOOD 4.2 NNW 12.0
RAPID CITY AIRPORT 9.0
RAPID CITY 3.4 WNW 7.5
ASTORIA 7.0
BRUCE 4.1 NE 6.0
KADOKA 0.3 N 5.5
MISSION 5.0
ASTORIA 2.2 SSE 5.0
SILVER CITY 4.8
RAPID CITY WFO 4.5
WINNER 12.4 WSW 4.0
BROOKINGS 0.2 SSW 4.0
SHADEHILL 3.5
MONTROSE 5.8 NW 3.5
TULARE 4.5 SSW 3.5
BROOKINGS 3.1
LEMMON 11.2 SW 3.0 ...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... SNOWFALL
MARSHALL AIRPORT 4.2
SLAYTON 4.0
PIPESTONE 3.5
IVANHOE 10 NE 3.0 ..NORTHWEST IOWA... SNOWFALL SPIRIT LAKE 2.0
OCHEYEDAN 1.5
ROCK RAPIDS 1.0 *************************************************************** Source: NWS
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