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On October 20, 2011, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center issued its U.S. Winter Outlook. The outlook expected the present La Niña to persist and intensify into the winter, resulting in drier than normal conditions in the drought-stricken states of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and parts of adjacent states.
Land surface temperature anomaly of Europe between January 25 and February 1, 2012 A map of the land temperature anomaly in Europe between January 29 and February 4, 2012. The northern half of Europe was affected primarily by greater cold and – except for a period of early snow – low precipitation.
The 2012–13 North American winter was the most active winter weather season by metric of the amount of storms rated on the Regional Snowfall Index (RSI), with a record-breaking 21 storms being rated on the scale.
Based on the astronomical definition, winter begins at the winter solstice, which in 2010 occurred late on December 21 (early on December 22 in EST), and ends at the March equinox, which in 2011 occurred on March 20. [1] Based on the meteorological definition, the first day of winter is December 1 and the last day February 28. [2]
The 2011 Halloween nor'easter, sometimes referred to as "Snowtober," [4] "Shocktober," [5] "Storm Alfred," [6] and "Oktoberblast," was a large low pressure area that produced unusually early snowfall across the northeastern United States and the Canadian Maritimes. It formed early on October 29 along a cold front to the southeast of the Carolinas.
Escaping winter on the cheap requires imagination. I took my shot by visiting a free indoor park in Manhattan. As birds chirped on the soundtrack, fake grass and fake trees helped by a real ...
The bulk of the cold is likely to occur before the middle of the month and may be so extreme that "this could end up being the coldest January since 2011 for the U.S. as a whole," AccuWeather Lead ...
The weather of 2012 marked the fewest fatalities from natural disasters in a decade, although there were several damaging and deadly floods, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and other weather events. These include blizzards , cold waves , droughts, heat waves , and wildfires .