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The 2011–12 North American winter by and large saw above normal average temperatures across the continent, with the Contiguous United States encountering its fourth-warmest winter on record, along with an unusually low number of significant winter precipitation events. The primary outlier was Alaska, parts of which experienced their coldest ...
The weather of 2012 marked the fewest fatalities from natural disasters in a decade, although there were several damaging and deadly floods, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and other weather events. These include blizzards , cold waves , droughts, heat waves , and wildfires .
Based on the astronomical definition, winter begins at the winter solstice, which in 2010 occurred late on December 21 (early on December 22 in EST), and ends at the March equinox, which in 2011 occurred on March 20. [1] Based on the meteorological definition, the first day of winter is December 1 and the last day February 28. [2]
The 2012–13 North American winter was the most active winter weather season by metric of the amount of storms rated on the Regional Snowfall Index (RSI), with a record-breaking 21 storms being rated on the scale.
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
The bulk of the cold is likely to occur before the middle of the month and may be so extreme that "this could end up being the coldest January since 2011 for the U.S. as a whole," AccuWeather Lead ...
Weather forecast for Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, into Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. First day of winter is here: Snow and cold in forecast as winter begins The West: Rain and warm temperatures
The January 25–27, 2011 nor'easter was a major Mid-Atlantic nor'easter that affected portions of the northeastern United States and Canada. This storm came just two weeks after a previous major nor'easter had already affected most of these same areas earlier on the same month of January 2011 .