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The first Weather Bureau radiosonde was launched in Massachusetts in 1937, which prompted a switch from routine aircraft observation to radiosondes within two years. The Bureau prohibited the word "tornado" from being used in any of its weather products out of concern for inciting panic (a move contradicted in its intentions by the high death tolls in past tornado outbreaks due to the lack of ...
The list of snowiest places in the United States by state shows average annual snowfall totals for the period from mid-1985 to mid-2015. Only places in the official climate database of the National Weather Service, a service of NOAA, are included in this list. Some ski resorts and unofficial weather stations report higher amounts of snowfall ...
The 2024–25 North American winter is the current winter season that is ongoing across the continent of North America.The most notable events of the season so far have included a powerful bomb cyclone that impacted the West Coast of the United States in mid-to-late November, as well as a severe lake-effect snowstorm in the Great Lakes later that month.
The winter weather-related events this season led to an estimated US$10 billion in damages, and an estimated 106 fatalities, much of it occurring in the month of January. While there is no well-agreed-upon date used to indicate the start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere , there are two definitions of winter which may be used.
The 2019–20 North American winter was unusually warm for many parts of the United States; in many areas, neutral ENSO conditions controlled the weather patterns, resulting in strong El Niño like conditions and the sixth-warmest winter on record, [1] and many areas in the Northeastern United States saw one of the least snowy winters in years. [2]
Just prior to the Christmas holiday, another powerful and significant blizzard, unofficially named Winter Storm Elliott by The Weather Channel, [49] began developing in southern Canada along an arctic front. It additionally dropped significant snowfall and record-breaking cold to the northern parts of the United States. [50]
Heavy snow fell in the Southeastern United States, with 7.6 in (19 cm) of snow in Nashville and 3.4 in (8.6 cm) of snow in Memphis. [12] The heavy snow in Tennessee shut down Great Smoky Mountains National Park. [13] 30 dogs had to be rescued in Nashville at an impound location due to the winter weather and bitter temperatures. [14]
Winter weather events began in late October in North America, with a crippling and devastating ice storm in the Southern Plains, which later merged with the remnants of Hurricane Zeta and produced more snow in New England. [5] November was generally quiet in terms of winter weather, with only a few minor snow events in the Midwest.