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[2] Warmer winters reduce the number of days that ice prevents navigation on rivers and in the Great Lakes. Between 1994 and 2011, reduced ice cover lengthened the shipping season on the Great Lakes by eight additional days. The Great Lakes are likely to warm another 3° to 7°F in the next 70 years, which will further extend the shipping season.
Following a wet beginning to August in much of the Northeast, precipitation has been well below the historical average due to extended stretches of dry weather. Some locations are on pace for ...
The warm pool expanded to almost double its size, from an area of 22 million km 2 during 1900–1980, to an area of 40 million km 2 during 1981–2018. [21] This expansion of the warm pool has altered global rainfall patterns, by changing the life cycle of the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO), which is the most dominant mode of weather ...
The 2021–22 North American winter was not as significant and record-breaking as the previous winter season.Despite this, several notable and significant events still occurred, including two separate record-breaking tornado outbreaks in mid-December, a significant winter storm in the South in mid-January, a powerful blizzard that impacted the Northeast coast at the end of January and a wide ...
Known for its glowing swaths of yellow, orange and red, the U.S. Drought Monitor has warned farmers, residents and officials throughout the nation of impending water scarcity every week since 1999
Odessa's March normal, for example, is 1.07 inches, but the National Weather Service recorded the amount of precipitation as "trace." Ephrata's March normal is 0.68 inches. March 2021 saw 0.03.
Shortly thereafter, the storm developed into a nor'easter and began moving up the coast slowly, dumping excessive amounts of snow on the I-95 corridor. 4.5 inches of snow fell in D.C., 5.2 inches in Baltimore, [83] 7.8 inches in Philadelphia, [84] 18.2 inches in Newark, New Jersey, 17.2 inches in Central Park, New York, 15.2 inches in New Haven ...
An upcoming change in the weather pattern that AccuWeather meteorologists have been forecasting for the past several weeks is about to unfold. As the pattern change takes shape, a storm could ...