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Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, and Snowzilla are portmanteaus of the word "snow" with "Armageddon", "Apocalypse", and "Godzilla" respectively. Snowmageddon and Snowpocalypse were used in the popular press in Canada during January 2009, [ 1 ] and was also used in January 2010 by The Guardian reporter Charlie Brooker to characterise the ...
High winds, gusting up to 156 kilometres per hour (97 mph) in the Avalon Peninsula, 164 kilometres per hour (102 mph) in Bonavista, Newfoundland [13] and 171 kilometres per hour (106 mph) in Green Island (Fortune), Newfoundland and Labrador [2] damaged the roofs of houses and created snowdrifts as high as 15 feet (4.6 m) against buildings and ...
A garage doorway was completely blocked by snow at a home in St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, after a strong blizzard hit the region between Friday and Saturday, January 17-18.Environment ...
The February 5–6, 2010 North American blizzard, commonly referred to as Snowmageddon, [1] was a blizzard that had major and widespread impact in the Northeastern United States. The storm's center tracked from Baja California Sur on February 2, 2010, to the east coast on February 6, 2010, before heading east out into the Atlantic.
Northeast snowstorms haven't been all that prolific lately, but that certainly wasn't the case in 2010. On Feb. 5, 2010, 15 years ago, the first of back-to-back snowstorms buried the mid-Atlantic ...
On January 25, a Boeing 767 traveling from Miami, Florida, to Milan, Italy, encountered severe turbulence produced by the storm about 480 km (300 mi) off Newfoundland. Of the 203 people on board, including crew, seven were injured. The aircraft made an emergency landing at St. John's International Airport. [159]
The January–March 2014 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event that extended through the late winter months of the 2013–2014 winter season, and was also part of an unusually cold winter affecting parts of Canada and parts of the north-central and northeastern United States. [5]
The systems affected areas from Oklahoma to Newfoundland and Labrador with freezing rain, thunderstorms, sleet, snow, damaging winds, and blizzard-like conditions in various areas. The first two storms produced copious amounts of ice across the Midwestern United States and Great Plains from December 8 to December 11, knocking out power to ...