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Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on the bitter cold and snow for Monday, Dec. 2. For the latest news, view our story for Tuesday, Dec. 3. Pounding snow and bitter cold continued their ...
Snow over Thredbo Top Station, July 2011. In southern New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and eastern Victoria, the elevated regions of the Snowy Mountains, Brindabella Range and Victorian Alps experience an alpine climate, where the areas above 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) are subject to a consistent heavy winter snowpack.
The first major lake effect snow pounded portions of the Northeast and Midwest this past weekend, with more in the forecast in the coming days. On Saturday, parts of the New York thruway had been ...
Snow is extremely rare in Sydney, with significant snowfall being last reported in the Sydney area on 28 June 1836. On that date, it was reported that convicts and British settlers in Hyde Park woke up to snow "nearly 1 in (2.5 cm) deep", with the meteorological table in The Sydney Herald recording that on the morning of the snow the ...
During that year, Sydney experienced a number of warm winter days, dry gusty winds and another milder dust storm. [58] [59] February 2011 was the driest in 30 years with only 18 mm (0.71 in) of rain falling, which is well below the average of 118 mm (4.6 in). Some of the western suburbs recorded the lowest total February rainfall on record. [60]
A windy low-pressure system spreading into the Northeast has also regenerated lake-effect snow squalls, piling on to totals that were measured in feet in some locations over the Thanksgiving ...
“During lake-effect snow, the weather can vary from bands of locally heavy snow with greatly reduced visibilities to dry conditions just a few miles away,” the National Weather Service in ...
The snow total on December 23 also broke a daily record. [9] To the north, Niagara Falls received 18.9 inches (48 cm) of snowfall over the period. [1] Buffalo experienced zero visibility/complete whiteout conditions from 9 a.m. on December 23 until 1 a.m. on December 25 and again from 5 a.m. until 7 a.m. on December 26. [10]