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The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as the Great Ice Storm of 1998 or the January Ice Storm) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998 that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada, and bordering areas from northern New York to central Maine in the United States.
Cold-weather warfare, also known as cold-region warfare, arctic warfare or winter warfare, encompasses military operations affected by snow, ice, thawing conditions, or cold, both on land and at sea, as well as the strategies and tactics used by military forces in these situations and environments.
In many ways it was the perfect storm for seeding: it did not threaten any land; it passed within range of seeding aircraft; and was intense with a distinct eye. [19] On August 18 and again on August 20, thirteen planes flew out to the storm to monitor and seed it. On the first day, windspeeds fell by 31%. [15]
In terms of deployed forces at the time, it surpassed in numbers any Canadian Forces operation overseas. It was the CF's third-largest recent domestic operation, after Operation RECUPERATION in response to the 1998 ice storm in Southern Ontario and Quebec, and Operation ASSISTANCE in response to the 1997 Red River flood.
A novel radar image taken during an April NASA flight reveals structural elements of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base buried within the Greenland Ice Sheet.
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.
A series of potent storms is expected to hammer the West Coast through the weekend after Christmas while precip Christmas travel trouble: Northeast ice and West Coast storms threaten road, air ...
1795 – Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder: The French First Republic's cavalry captured the fleet of the Dutch Republic that was stuck in ice, frozen at anchor. 1809 – Finnish War. Barclay de Tolly's advance from Vaasa to Uumaja in Sweden, see Battle of Ratan and Sävar [1] Bagration's and Kulnev's attack from Åland to Grisslehamn in ...