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Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, and Snowzilla are portmanteaus of the word "snow" with "Armageddon", "Apocalypse", and "Godzilla" respectively. Snowmageddon and Snowpocalypse were used in the popular press in Canada during January 2009, [ 1 ] and was also used in January 2010 by The Guardian reporter Charlie Brooker to characterise the ...
High winds, gusting up to 156 kilometres per hour (97 mph) in the Avalon Peninsula, 164 kilometres per hour (102 mph) in Bonavista, Newfoundland [13] and 171 kilometres per hour (106 mph) in Green Island (Fortune), Newfoundland and Labrador [2] damaged the roofs of houses and created snowdrifts as high as 15 feet (4.6 m) against buildings and ...
The February 5–6, 2010 North American blizzard, commonly referred to as Snowmageddon, [1] was a blizzard that had major and widespread impact in the Northeastern United States. The storm's center tracked from Baja California Sur on February 2, 2010, to the east coast on February 6, 2010, before heading east out into the Atlantic.
A garage doorway was completely blocked by snow at a home in St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, after a strong blizzard hit the region between Friday and Saturday, January 17-18.Environment ...
Infrared satellite image of the storm on Monday, December 27, 2010. On December 22, an extratropical storm moved ashore in California and weakened. On December 25, while situated in eastern New Mexico, two areas of low pressure interacted with another that dropped down from central Canada [6] and an ample amount of Gulf stream energy; as a result, the storm carried a fairly large amount of ...
The December 2009 North American blizzard was a powerful nor'easter that formed over the Gulf of Mexico in December 2009, and became a major snowstorm that affected the East Coast of the United States and Canadian Atlantic provinces.
The February 9–10, 2010 North American blizzard was a winter and severe weather event that afflicted the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States between February 9–11, 2010, affecting some of the same regions that had experienced a historic Nor'easter just three days earlier.
The systems affected areas from Oklahoma to Newfoundland and Labrador with freezing rain, thunderstorms, sleet, snow, damaging winds, and blizzard-like conditions in various areas. The first two storms produced copious amounts of ice across the Midwestern United States and Great Plains from December 8 to December 11, knocking out power to ...