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A continuous marine broadcast, or CMB, is a marine weather broadcasting service [1] operated by the Canadian Coast Guard.CMBs are programmed from the various Marine Communications and Traffic Services centres on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic coasts of Canada, as well as on the coasts of the Great Lakes.
On December 25, more than 6 inches (15 cm) of snow fell in Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. [79] Freezing rain was blamed for a 21-car pileup on Interstate 35 near Oklahoma City. [80] 40 Oklahoma National Guard soldiers were deployed throughout the state to assist motorists on roads. [81] Two people were killed in separate weather-related car ...
Another weekend is fast approaching, and AccuWeather meteorologists say so is a developing storm that will pack windswept rain and flooding problems across parts of the northeastern United States ...
At 9.8 in (25 cm) of snow, Boston had their third least snowy winter on record. [119] However, the Quad Cities region experienced their heaviest one week snow totals, with a total of 25.5 in (65 cm) of snow falling in Moline, Illinois and 24.7 in (63 cm) falling in Dubuque, Iowa between January 9 and January 13.
Forecasting these types of events is equivalent to summer severe weather forecast for squall lines: presence of a sharp frontal trough with wind shift and low level jet of more than 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph). However, the cold dome behind the trough is at 850 millibars instead of a higher level and must be at least −13 °F (−25 °C). The ...
August 7–8, 1988: Tropical Storm Alberto, the furthest north forming tropical storm ever recorded in the Atlantic, struck the Canadian Maritimes and became extratropical over Newfoundland. Alberto was the first storm with a masculine name to directly strike Canada.
The Canadian network was thus gradually formed and by 1997, there were 19 weather radars of two kinds across the country: 18 five centimeter wavelength (C-Band) radars and 1 ten centimeter wavelength (S-Band) at McGill, all of the radars detected reflectivity but only Carvel (Edmonton), King City (Toronto) and McGill (Montreal) were equipped ...
The two major Canadian cities that fall outside the continental climate schema are Vancouver and Victoria. Vancouver experiences an oceanic climate, bordering warm-summer mediterranean with a marked summer dry season. Victoria, BC is the only major Canadian city entirely in a warm-summer mediterranean climate.