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Japan Is Experiencing Record Breaking Snow This February

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This season Japan has experienced a record amount of snowfall. Both the Central and Northern regions of the country are prone to major storms with epic accumulation each season because of their geography. Featuring tall mountains right next to the open ocean, it’s the perfect combination for massive snowstorms to dump. Moisture is sucked up from the ocean into the […]

Aunika Skogen | February 28, 2022
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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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WeatherBrains | October 26, 2021
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[VIDEO] NOAA Explains California’s Atmospheric River and Bomb Cyclone Event

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WeatherBrains | October 26, 2021
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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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SnowBrains | October 25, 2021
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SnowBrains Forecast: Massive Snow Totals Forecasted for California This Weekend, 30-40″ of Snow Likely in Lake Tahoe Area

Forecast Summary: A moisture-rich atmospheric river event associated with a powerful mid-latitude cyclone is forecasted to bring significant precipitation to California this weekend. Most of Northern California will see rainfall totals between 3-12″ with the possibility of upwards of 60-70″ of snow in the High Sierra. Friday-Saturday: A preliminary band of moisture pushed through Northern California Thursday evening and Friday morning, dropping […]

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Clay Malott | October 22, 2021
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75-Footer Recorded Off the California Coast: One of the Largest Waves EVER Recorded

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Last week’s bomb cyclone that pummeled the West Coast brought with it some of the largest ever recorded waves off of the coast of California, including one that was up to 75-feet tall. The University of California, San Diego’s Coastal Data Information Program recorded a massive 75-foot wave roughly 20 miles off the coast of Cape Mendocino in Northern California. It […]

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SwellBrains | December 11, 2019
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Bomb Cyclone Knocking Out Power And Making Travel Dangerous In The Northeast

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Hurricane force winds are pummeling New England on Thursday morning, 10/17/19 as a storm known as a bomb cyclone is knocking out power and disrupting travel in the region through the end of the workweek.  The storm “is now parked over southern New England with the pressure equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane,” CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said. Wind gusts […]

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SnowBrains | October 17, 2019
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Sharks Washing Up Frozen on Cape Cod Beach

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Four frozen sharks have washed up in Massachusetts during a winter storm which has brought heavy snow and freezing temperatures to the US East Coast reports LiveScience.com. The dead male thresher sharks found on beaches in Cape Cod were all too frozen for researchers to perform immediate post-mortem examinations. Another frozen shark, measuring 14ft, was found on 29 December in Brewster […]

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Steven Agar | January 15, 2018
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