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A winter storm will drop snow from Houston, Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana as an arctic air mass extends a historically cold January. Snow, sleet and freezing rain are set to fall across parts of ...
Precipitation in most of the Arctic falls only as rain and snow. Over most areas snow is the dominant, or only, form of precipitation in winter, while both rain and snow fall in summer (Serreze and Barry 2005).
Nearly the entire U.S. is forecast to see above-average temperatures (in orange and red) during the week of Dec. 13-19, 2024, a marked contrast to the recent Arctic chill. Nasty weather in Northwest
Let's briefly step through everything we are watching, from multiple winter storms to severe weather, flooding rain, a debris flow threat, arctic cold and even record warmth. 1. Winter Storms x 3
Long-term mean precipitation by month. Earth rainfall climatology Is the study of rainfall, a sub-field of meteorology.Formally, a wider study includes water falling as ice crystals, i.e. hail, sleet, snow (parts of the hydrological cycle known as precipitation).
Climate change, in the form of rising temperatures, will also increase the number of 'rain-on-snow' events during the winter of Svalbard. This has consequences for herbivores – like the endemic Svalbard reindeer and Svalbard rock ptarmigan – that are dependent on the scattered plants and fauna as their only food source during the winter.
Over 175 million people across the country are under some form of cold weather alert as the mid-Atlantic and Northeast ready for another round of rain and snow and southern states brace for frigid ...
The Arctic ice pack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity. The Arctic ice pack undergoes a regular seasonal cycle in which ice melts in spring and summer, reaches a minimum around mid-September, then increases during fall and winter. Summer ice cover in the Arctic is about 50% of winter cover. [1]