skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Icy Sunday - Wednesday Blizzard? (coldest Thanksgiving since '85) | StarTribune.comNot sure we'll have a full-blown blizzard (definition calls for sustained winds over 35 mph with visibility in falling/blowing snow less than 1/4 mile) - but I suspect it'll be close to that criteria. The approach of Arctic air (16 degree high Thanksgiving Day would make it the coldest since 1985, when the high at MSP was 11 F) will probably trigger a "burst" of light, powdery snow Wednesday. Odds favor enough to shovel & plow, maybe as much as 4-8" of fluff - prone to blowing and drifting, making Wednesday one of the worst travel days of the winter season. Up north the computers are hinting at some 10-20" amounts.
Hottest year ever update: 2010 typhoon tally may be lowest on record | The Japan Times OnlineAs of Saturday, 14 typhoons — tropical cyclones generated in the Northwest Pacific or the South China Sea north of the equator with a minimum wind velocity of 61.9 kph — have been spawned this year.
The Meteorological Agency, which has been keeping statistics on typhoons since 1951, said the lowest number — 16 — was in 1998. The average per year between 1971 and 2000 was 26.7, while the most on record is 39 in 1967.
Keremeos Review - Difficult year for grape growers as weather refuses to cooperate until late in seasonThe October edition of the British Columbia Grapegrowers Association noted that this year has been a challenging one for B.C. grape growers.
“The Thanksgiving weekend frost in 2009 did a lot of damage,” the report said, with another short crop anticipated as a result.
Only July and August were warm, with the other growing months all cooler than normal.
“The number of degree days accumulated by mid-September in most locations has been well below the average of the last 10 years, “ reported Manfred Freese, President of the BCGA.
Weekend snow in IA, MN, WI and the western U.P. | WOODTV.com BlogsColder air is building in Alaska and the Yukon and will start moving south and east early this week. There is bitter cold air in eastern Siberia. Oymyakon was 6.1 degrees colder than average for the first 13 days of November. Seven of those 13 days had low temperatures of -40F or colder.
Early snow hits Minnesota, Wisconsin - CNN.com(CNN) -- While winter's start remains more than a month away, much of Minnesota and Wisconsin were under a winter storm warning Saturday, with some areas seeing almost a foot of snow.
...
Shortly after 5 p.m., the Minnesota State Patrol reported on its Twitter page that officers had responded to at least 401 crashes on Saturday, 45 of them with injuries. The agency warned drivers that conditions could worsen in the evening, as roads turned icy.
Shelterless flood-hit Pakistanis dread approaching winter Islamabad, Nov 11 (IANS) Millions of flood-hit people across Pakistan, who suffer from loss of shelter, are having sleepless nights as the approaching harsh winter ushers in the biting cold.
...
The affected people, living in miserable conditions since July, are now in a state of panic because winter is approaching and they don't have enough resources like clothing and shelter to keep the cold at bay.
Winter white-out helps push ski resort back into the black - Herald Scotland | News | Home NewsA Scottish ski resort has recorded a dramatic turnaround thanks to last season’s bumper snowfall, turning a £40,000 loss into a £730,000 profit.
The operator of the Cairngorm ski slopes made the huge profit just two years after it was saved from financial ruin by being taken into public ownership.
More than 21ft of snow fell cumulatively at the top of the resort during last winter, and a total of 145,007 skiers enjoyed the record-breaking season, which ran from November 2009 to Midsummer Day in June.
PR-CANADA.net - National Grape Cooperative Completes Smaller-Than-Average Concord Juice-Grape HarvestSays Richard Erdle, director Member Relations, "This year's crop yielded only 78 percent of the co-op's average crop size, due in large part to devastating frost/freeze events in our southwest Michigan growing area where the Concord harvest yielded only 40 percent of our pre-frost expectations. Michigan growers have experienced several weather-related losses over the last 10 years, not unlike those occurring in the 1960s when the area was affected by similar weather patterns. While each of the co-op's growing areas experienced frost damage, Michigan's losses were by far the greatest."
Posts
