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Antarctica Experiences Record High Temps Amid Transition to Winter

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Like many others this year, Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, is experiencing a heatwave. It’s entering winter with record-breaking high temps.  Antarctica has already started transitioning into its coldest months and darkest months. Temperatures usually begin dropping towards the end of the Southern Summer, but the continent is breaking records this March. Known as polar nights, daylight is minimal. […]
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NOAA: When Rivers Reach the Sky – What Caused 18-Feet of Snow to Fall on California in December?

This past December, a mind-boggling 18 feet of snowfall fell in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains! How does so much snow fall in one place in such a short period of time? One of the primary phenomena responsible for such extreme rain and snowfall, particularly in regions like the western U.S., is the atmospheric river. Like their terrestrial counterparts, atmospheric […]
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NOAA Satellite Captures Rare, Cloud-Free View of Northwest Mountain Ranges after Atmospheric River Snowstorm

  This article originally appeared on earthobservatory.nasa.gov The U.S. and Canadian West have been hit with wave after wave of Pacific moisture in recent weeks, producing substantial amounts of rain and snow across the region. But between storm systems, clear skies opened up for nearly a thousand miles from the coast to the interior, giving satellites a rare cloud-free view […]
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SnowBrains Forecast: 80-100″+ of Snow For Alaska Mountains Through Sunday

Forecast By SnowBrains Chief Meteorologist – Eric McNamee  9:45 pm MST, 10/27/2021 Forecast Summary: An atmospheric river will slam into Alaska and bring 80-100″+ of snow through Sunday. Snow will pick up this weekend as a stream of moisture is transported into the region. Snow will continue into the long-term and the extended. Places like Alyeska and Silverton Mountain could do well […]
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NASA: California Weather – What Just Happened? Extratropical Cyclones Drench West Coast

One of the most intense extratropical cyclones ever to strike the Pacific Northwest drew an equally historic amount of moisture onto the West Coast of North America on October 24-25, 2021. The storm off the coast of Washington—with a central pressure of 942.5 millibars, equivalent to a category 4 hurricane—was the second extreme low-pressure storm in the North Pacific in […]
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[PHOTO ROUND UP] Record-Breaking Weather Event Slams Multiple California Ski Areas With Feet of Snow

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) California just recorded its strongest storm in modern history. The barometric pressure of the current storm system impacting California is 943 hPa—the equivalent to the central pressure of a strong hurricane. Local news authorities reported that the storm is so powerful that it blew over a semi-truck […]
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