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The January 2010 North American winter storms were a group of seven powerful winter storms that affected Canada and the Contiguous United States, particularly California.The storms developed from the combination of a strong El Niño episode, a powerful jet stream, [7] and an atmospheric river that opened from the West Pacific Ocean into the Western Seaboard.
Infrared satellite image of the storm on Monday, December 27, 2010. On December 22, an extratropical storm moved ashore in California and weakened. On December 25, while situated in eastern New Mexico, two areas of low pressure interacted with another that dropped down from central Canada [6] and an ample amount of Gulf stream energy; as a result, the storm carried a fairly large amount of ...
The list of weather records includes the most extreme occurrences of weather phenomena ... on 10 August 2010, ... (108.1 °F), in Death Valley, California, for the ...
The April 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides are an extreme weather event that has affected the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the first days of April 2010. At least 212 people have died, [ 253 ] [ 254 ] [ 255 ] 161 people have been injured (including several rescuers), [ 256 ] while at least 15,000 people have been made homeless ...
Last year, a Times investigation found that in California alone, about 3,900 people died of extreme heat between 2010 and 2019 — roughly six times more than the state was reporting — and some ...
2010–11 2011–12 The 2010–11 North American winter was influenced by an ongoing La Niña , seeing winter storms and very cold temperatures affect a large portion of the Continental United States , even as far south as the Texas Panhandle .
Key takeaways. Severe weather events, such as damaging storms, wildfires and extreme heat waves or droughts, are increasing across the country. These events create higher maintenance and insurance ...
Damage caused by the 1983 Los Angeles tornado This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The U.S. state of California experiences several tornadoes every year, with at least 489 twisters [nb 1] recorded since 1891. Among these are four fire whirls, a type of tornado that develops ...