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The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972.
January thaw is a term applied to a thaw or rise in temperature in mid-winter found in mid-latitude North America.. Sinusoidal estimates of expected temperatures, for northern locales, usually place the lowest temperatures around January 23 and the highest around July 24, and provide fairly accurate estimates of temperature expectations.
Snow, sleet and freezing rain can occur during the winter season, when cold Canadian air at ground level is overrun by warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. Unless otherwise indicated, all normal data presented below are based on data at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport the official Little Rock climatology station, from the 1981− ...
As points north and east dug out of snow and ice Tuesday, communities in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas were preparing. In Texas, crews treated the roads in the Dallas area amid forecasts of 1 to 3 inches (about 3 to 8 centimeters) of snow on Thursday, along with sleet and rain.
The storm will produce 1-6 inches of snow from Arkansas through much of Tennessee and the southern Appalachians into Friday. Within this area, there will be pockets where 6-12 inches of snow can ...
Category 2 1996 January 6–10: 48 inches (120 cm) 980 hPa (29 inHg) Blizzard Category 5 1997 March 31 – April 1 — 979 hPa (28.9 inHg) Blizzard Category 2 October 24–26 — — Storm — 1998 January 4–10: 5 inches (13 cm) [c] — Ice storm — 1999 January 2–4: 21.6 inches (55 cm) — Storm Category 4 January 14–15 — — Ice ...
In temperate and sub-polar regions, four seasons based on the Gregorian calendar are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn (fall), and winter. Ecologists often use a six-season model for temperate climate regions which are not tied to any fixed calendar dates: prevernal, vernal, estival, serotinal, autumnal, and hibernal.
An unusually cold weather system from the Gulf of Alaska interrupted summer along the West Coast on Saturday, bringing snow to mountains in California and the Pacific Northwest and prompting the ...