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[1] [2] Examples include The Great Snow of 1717, The Schoolhouse Blizzard (1888), the Mataafa Storm, the Storm of the Century (1993). [3] Credit for the first usage of personal names for weather is generally given to the Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named tropical cyclones and anticyclones between 1887–1907. [4]
Des Moines had around 1 inch of snow on Monday. A report from KCCI near Iowa Methodist Center reported 1.3 inches of snow at 7:30 a.m. Monday and the Des Moines International Airport reported 1 ...
Lake Helen at Mount Lassen [10] and Kalmia Lake in the Trinity Alps are estimated to receive 600-700 inches of snow per year. Tamarack in Calaveras County holds the record for the deepest snowfall on earth (884 inches (2,250 cm)). 5. Alaska: Valdez: 314.1 inches (798 cm) 95 feet (29 m)
The 2018–19 North American winter was unusually cold within the Northern United States, with frigid temperatures being recorded within the middle of the season.Several notable events occurred, such as a rare snow in the Southeast in December, a strong cold wave and several major winter storms in the Midwest, and upper Northeast and much of Canada in late January and early February, record ...
The advisory area may experience total snow and sleet accumulations under an inch and ice accretions of 0.1-0.2 inches. ... Parts of Interstate 880 in western Iowa were shut down from Friday ...
That’s because the snow will be lighter and fluffier than what hit Iowa earlier this week, blown by winds that could gust in excess of 40 mph. Sustained winds Friday are expected to be 20 to 25 mph.
A 2007 estimate of snow cover over the Northern Hemisphere suggested that, on average, snow cover ranges from a minimum extent of 2 million square kilometres (0.77 × 10 ^ 6 sq mi) each August to a maximum extent of 45 million square kilometres (17 × 10 ^ 6 sq mi) each January or nearly half of the land surface in that hemisphere.
In northwest Iowa, Les Mars and the surrounding area experienced about 1.5 inches of snow and northeast Iowa, Decorah experienced about 2 inches of snow. Top snowfall totals as of 12 p.m.: