Seattle sets umbrellas aside, braces for snow
(AP) SEATTLE – Seattle, a city more accustomed to rain than snow, prepared for a potentially major snow storm to hit Wednesday as the city’s mayor urged residents to stay off roads and school...
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The Real Cost of Preparing for a Blizzard
This year’s mild winter makes the snow-a-thons of recent years seem a quaint memory. It’s hard to believe that just two winters ago, 70 inches of snow fell on Washington, D.C., forcing the government...
Alaska snow and ice cuts off Cordova and Nome
Extreme winter weather has left one Alaskan town battling huge snowdrifts and forced another to seek fuel supplies from a Russian tanker. National Guard troops are in Cordova, helping the town dig out after...
Could Lack of Snowpack Lead to Water Concerns?
Snowpack across the western United States right now is paltry when compared to this time last year. Below is an image showing the expansive and deep snow cover (white, blue, purple shadings) across the...
Blinding Blizzards Hit Plains
As residents of several states in the southern Plains woke up today to a White Christmas several days early, forecasters urged those in the snowstorm’s path to take a break from the holiday shopping...
100MPH STORMS ON THEIR WAY
BRITAIN was told to brace itself for the worst weather in 30 years – with forecasts of gale-force winds, snow, sleet and torrential rain. The Met Office issued a weather warning of gales as...
Yukon’s storm broke weather records
Monday’s storm in Yukon broke a variety of weather records around the territory. High winds and rain sent temperatures up to 14 degrees in Burwash Landing. It was the warmest December day ever for...
WANT WEIRD WEATHER? COME TO OKLAHOMA!
“Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy,” said Rick Smith, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Norman. “Since January, we’ve been setting records. People are just kind of amazed and shocked.” State records set this...
Storm of ‘Epic Magnitude’ Hits Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Packing hurricane-force winds, an Alaskan storm of “epic proportions” slammed into coastal communities, sending some residents fleeing to higher ground as it tore roofs from homes and knocked out power. The...
Powerful Bering Sea storm lashing Alaska
(AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A powerful Bering Sea storm hit western Alaska early Wednesday with high winds and surging seas, the National Weather Service said. Some homes close to ocean have been evacuated, but...
