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The deadly US Snowfall of 2016!

August 5, 2016 by ExtremeWeather

From January 22 through 24, 2016, a major blizzard produced up to 3 ft (91 cm) of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States. Evolving from a shortwave trough, the system consolidated into a defined low-pressure area on January 21 over Texas. Regarding it as a “potentially historic blizzard”, meteorologists indicated the storm could produce …

Scientists give their view on the severe winter of 2009/10

August 5, 2016 by ExtremeWeather

Scientists have shown that a severe snowfall in North America and Northern Europe in the winter of 2009-10 was caused by a rare, once-in-a-century, collision of two weather systems. They concluded the harsh winter and heavy snow was an example of hard to predict weather events, not a change in climate. They analysed historical snow …