WKN Weer, Klimaat en Natuurrampen
Lees alles over het onstuimige weer op onze planeet, volg orkanen en tornado's, zie hoe vulkanen uitbarsten en hoe Moeder Aarde beeft bij een aardbeving. Alles over de verwoestende kracht van onze planeet en tal van andere natuurverschijnselen.
POINT MUGU Calif. — Streets flooded, hillsides slipped and commuters cursed Friday as another in a series of powerful winter storms lashed Southern California.
The morning commute was long, wet and, in some cases, treacherous. Traffic accidents doubled compared to the usual rush hour, California Highway Patrol Officer Miguel Luevano estimated.
However, no fatal accidents were reported on Los Angeles-area freeways.
Near downtown, at least two cars were stuck in door handle-deep water on a flooded Hancock Park neighborhood street.
About 6,700 customers were without electricity after power lines toppled, city Department of Water and Power spokeswoman Gale Harris said.
In some hillside areas, minor mudslides were reported but there were no injuries. Canyons scarred by wildfires last fall held despite a fifth day of rain but flash flood watches remained in effect.
Mountain ski resorts enthusiastically welcomed blankets of fresh snow that came in with the storms that began pummeling the region Tuesday.
Some areas have received more rain in the past week than they did the entire year before, National Weather Service meteorologist Jamie Meier said, though experts said the moisture would do little to improve local water supplies.
By Friday morning, Long Beach Airport had received 2.76 inches of rain, compared to 2.1 inches over the previous 12 months, Meier said. Downtown Los Angeles had received 2.54 inches and Gibraltar Dam near Santa Barbara was drenched with 7.56 inches.
A flash flood warning was in effect early Friday in Los Angeles in areas around Griffith Park that were denuded by last year's wildfires.
The Mountain High ski resort received 18 inches of snow, but was forced to temporarily close its slopes Thursday due to high winds.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the Santa Barbara County mountains through 10 p.m. Friday. The snow level was expected to drop to between 2,000 and 3,000 feet Thursday night, and down to 1,500 feet during heavier showers or thunderstorms.
At least one waterspout from the Pacific made landfall Thursday night, the National Weather Service said. The tornado tore the roof off of a building at Naval Base Ventura County in Point Mugu, meteorologist Curt Kaplan said.
Vance Vasquez, a base spokesman, said debris was scattered across the runway and "a good portion" of the roof was torn from Hangar 351, which houses aircraft. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The storm had forced the closure of Interstate 5 late Wednesday on each side of the Grapevine section of Tejon Pass, which soars to an elevation of more than 4,000 feet between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Joaquin Valley. Hundreds of trucks and cars were stuck along a 40-mile stretch of the major north-south artery but most were guided out, the California Highway Patrol said.
A roughly 40-mile stretch of the icy interstate reopened Friday morning after overnight rains helped clear snow on the road, CHP Officer David Porter said.
In Orange County, crews placed safety barriers against several homes in fire-scarred Modjeska Canyon Thursday.
"The rain resulted in a few minor debris flows behind a few houses but as far as I know there was no structural damage," Capt. Mike Blawn of the Orange County Fire Authority said.
Authorities are concerned about another storm forecast to hit the area over the weekend. Forecasters are predicting 4-6 inches to hit south and southwest facing mountain slopes between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Heavy rain and hail prompted the Santa Anita horse track in Arcadia to cancel races Thursday, the fourth time this month. Its synthetic track has had drainage problems.
The storm was not expected to improve local water supplies. One of the driest rain seasons on record left reservoirs so low last year that several cities called for voluntary water conservation
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325467,00.html
The morning commute was long, wet and, in some cases, treacherous. Traffic accidents doubled compared to the usual rush hour, California Highway Patrol Officer Miguel Luevano estimated.
However, no fatal accidents were reported on Los Angeles-area freeways.
Near downtown, at least two cars were stuck in door handle-deep water on a flooded Hancock Park neighborhood street.
About 6,700 customers were without electricity after power lines toppled, city Department of Water and Power spokeswoman Gale Harris said.
In some hillside areas, minor mudslides were reported but there were no injuries. Canyons scarred by wildfires last fall held despite a fifth day of rain but flash flood watches remained in effect.
Mountain ski resorts enthusiastically welcomed blankets of fresh snow that came in with the storms that began pummeling the region Tuesday.
Some areas have received more rain in the past week than they did the entire year before, National Weather Service meteorologist Jamie Meier said, though experts said the moisture would do little to improve local water supplies.
By Friday morning, Long Beach Airport had received 2.76 inches of rain, compared to 2.1 inches over the previous 12 months, Meier said. Downtown Los Angeles had received 2.54 inches and Gibraltar Dam near Santa Barbara was drenched with 7.56 inches.
A flash flood warning was in effect early Friday in Los Angeles in areas around Griffith Park that were denuded by last year's wildfires.
The Mountain High ski resort received 18 inches of snow, but was forced to temporarily close its slopes Thursday due to high winds.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the Santa Barbara County mountains through 10 p.m. Friday. The snow level was expected to drop to between 2,000 and 3,000 feet Thursday night, and down to 1,500 feet during heavier showers or thunderstorms.
At least one waterspout from the Pacific made landfall Thursday night, the National Weather Service said. The tornado tore the roof off of a building at Naval Base Ventura County in Point Mugu, meteorologist Curt Kaplan said.
Vance Vasquez, a base spokesman, said debris was scattered across the runway and "a good portion" of the roof was torn from Hangar 351, which houses aircraft. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The storm had forced the closure of Interstate 5 late Wednesday on each side of the Grapevine section of Tejon Pass, which soars to an elevation of more than 4,000 feet between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Joaquin Valley. Hundreds of trucks and cars were stuck along a 40-mile stretch of the major north-south artery but most were guided out, the California Highway Patrol said.
A roughly 40-mile stretch of the icy interstate reopened Friday morning after overnight rains helped clear snow on the road, CHP Officer David Porter said.
In Orange County, crews placed safety barriers against several homes in fire-scarred Modjeska Canyon Thursday.
"The rain resulted in a few minor debris flows behind a few houses but as far as I know there was no structural damage," Capt. Mike Blawn of the Orange County Fire Authority said.
Authorities are concerned about another storm forecast to hit the area over the weekend. Forecasters are predicting 4-6 inches to hit south and southwest facing mountain slopes between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Heavy rain and hail prompted the Santa Anita horse track in Arcadia to cancel races Thursday, the fourth time this month. Its synthetic track has had drainage problems.
The storm was not expected to improve local water supplies. One of the driest rain seasons on record left reservoirs so low last year that several cities called for voluntary water conservation
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325467,00.html
Dit is weer het andere uiterste....quote:South Florida Adopts One-Day-a-Week Watering
Regional Water Levels Begin Seasonal Decline; Water Shortage Order
Provides “Watering Windows” for Landscape Irrigation
West Palm Beach, FL – For the first time in the agency's history, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) today declared an extreme District-wide water shortage, directly affecting more than five million South Florida residents and thousands of farms and businesses. At its monthly meeting, the District's nine-member Governing Board adopted a groundbreaking water shortage order, instituting a one-day-a-week watering schedule for residential landscape irrigation to conserve regional water supplies. Landscape irrigation accounts for up to half of all household water consumption in Florida and totals more than seven billion gallons per day nationwide.
"Today's order represents the most stringent landscape irrigation measures that this agency has ever had to impose, but we believe it will significantly help to protect and stretch our regional water supplies," said SFWMD Governing Board Chairman Eric Buermann. "We appreciate the public's understanding and compliance with these necessary restrictions that will result in measurable water savings."
The black and white you'll never pass, stick yer blue flag up yer arse!
'They know on the Continent that European football without the English is like a hot dog without the mustard' Sir Bobby Charlton
'They know on the Continent that European football without the English is like a hot dog without the mustard' Sir Bobby Charlton
Live from Michigan:
Voor het sneeuwschuiven:
Na het sneeuwschuiven:
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Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
Haha, mooie shit! Ik houd lekker de bruine kleur op mijn gezicht, ook al zijn sommige delen vd US leuker als FL; maar niet qua weer hehe. Het koude klimaat is niet echt mijn ding; understatement. (in de zomer is het er wel erg leuk, wanneer is het zomertopic?)quote:
The black and white you'll never pass, stick yer blue flag up yer arse!
'They know on the Continent that European football without the English is like a hot dog without the mustard' Sir Bobby Charlton
'They know on the Continent that European football without the English is like a hot dog without the mustard' Sir Bobby Charlton
Wanneer jij of iemand anders hem opent.
Aan de temps van de afgelopen twee weken te zien is de zomer in Nederland in ieder geval niet ver weg meer
Aan de temps van de afgelopen twee weken te zien is de zomer in Nederland in ieder geval niet ver weg meer
Lokale update:
Hundreds of school closings and lots of minor accidents were caused by the storm that moved through West Michigan Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Ik blijf ook nog maar even thuis.
Hundreds of school closings and lots of minor accidents were caused by the storm that moved through West Michigan Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Ik blijf ook nog maar even thuis.
Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
Midwest braces for 'vicious slap from Mother Nature'
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and fierce winds sliced through the Midwest, leaving behind bitterly cold air and blizzards in the northern Plains that sent temperatures in some areas plummeting by 50 degrees in a few hours.
Forecasters warned more bad weather was on the way Wednesday.
"This is going to be a hard, vicious slap in the face from Mother Nature," Gino Izzi, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Romeoville, Illinois, said Tuesday night. "The temperature drop we saw was really spectacular in a bad way."
High winds associated with thunderstorms may have killed two people in Indiana, authorities said Tuesday. Snow forced the closure of schools and highways in many areas, and avalanche warnings were issued for some Western regions.
"I wouldn't call it a common occurrence to see winds this strong with this kind of snow," Izzi said. "This isn't something we see every year."
The cold air and wind gusts as high as 70 mph slammed into the Midwest, where fog created problems for air travel Tuesday in Chicago. About 350 flights were canceled Tuesday at O'Hare International Airport, said Chicago Department of Aviation spokesman Karen Pride.
The system also dragged frigid air across the northern Plains. The Weather Service reported a midday temperature of 24 degrees below zero at Glasgow, Montana. North Dakota registered wind chill factors of 54 below zero at Garrison, while Williston hit a low of 24 below.
Most of Minnesota was under wind chill warnings until noon Wednesday due to indexes that fell into the minus 30 degree level. It was as low as 50 degrees below freezing in Hibbing.
Though only light snow fell in western, central and eastern Iowa on Tuesday, winds snapping as fast as 60 mph caused visibility problems, and temperatures dropped into single digits.
In north central and eastern Iowa, forecasters expected strong winds and blowing snow to continue overnight, and for temperatures to possibly dip to 10 below zero.
"It's a little worse than your average snowstorm," said Rod Donovan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Des Moines, Iowa. "The biggest impact is that the driving conditions can change quickly with this type of storm. Once it begins, travel is quite hazardous."
Some 1,500 workers went home early from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, while critical medical staff were put up in hotels so they could stay close to serve patients. The blustery winds also put flight operations on ice at the Rochester airport.
Firefighters in southwestern Indiana pulled two bodies from a mobile home near Evansville that had been turned on its side by winds in a thunderstorm, WEHT-TV reported.
Residents near Danville, west of Indianapolis, reported funnel clouds, and damage was reported to a home and the Morgan County Courthouse in Martinsville.
The National Weather Service reported an unconfirmed tornado touchdown near Okawville, Illinois. A corner of the roof peeled off a high school in Nashville, Illinonis, but no injuries were reported.
Temperatures in Illinois dropped from Tuesday's highs in the 40s to about zero overnight. In anticipation, some central Illinois schools canceled Wednesday classes.
In Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, winds as strong as 70 mph and dime-size hail were reported Tuesday. Two unconfirmed funnel clouds were reported, said Dick Knaup, the county's emergency management director.
The week began with heavy snow pummeling mountain areas from Washington state to northern Arizona as two storms converged, one from hard-hit California and another from the Gulf of Alaska, meteorologists said. Watch residents struggle in Spokane, Washington »
The storms were followed Tuesday by a third that threatened to leave up to 20 inches of snow in Idaho's mountains, said Jay Breidenbach of the Weather Service office in Boise, Idaho.
A fourth storm was on the way to the interior West: "By Thursday, the next storm will be right on our doorstep. This is quite a storm system," Breidenbach said.
The Navajo reservation, which sprawls across parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, was under an emergency declaration because of the possibility that melting snow could create flooding.
In the snow farther west, avalanche danger forced officials to close Interstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass, Washington state's main east-west artery across the Cascade Mountains. The pass was to remain closed until Wednesday morning, Meagan McFadden of the state Department of Transportation said.
More than 200 trucks were backed up at North Bend, waiting to move freight across the pass. On a typical weekday, as many as 7,000 trucks travel I-90 over Snoqualmie Pass, she added.
Snow also closed highways in Minnesota, Colorado and Wyoming.
Two of three snowmobilers lost in the mountains west of Denver were found late Tuesday, said Summit County sheriff's spokeswoman Paulette Horr. The third was still missing.
In Oregon, two snowmobilers were rescued Monday after spending two nights in the Wallowa Mountains, where they were trapped by storms. Authorities said the two were dressed warmly and equipped with survival gear, matches and an avalanche beacon.
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and fierce winds sliced through the Midwest, leaving behind bitterly cold air and blizzards in the northern Plains that sent temperatures in some areas plummeting by 50 degrees in a few hours.
Forecasters warned more bad weather was on the way Wednesday.
"This is going to be a hard, vicious slap in the face from Mother Nature," Gino Izzi, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Romeoville, Illinois, said Tuesday night. "The temperature drop we saw was really spectacular in a bad way."
High winds associated with thunderstorms may have killed two people in Indiana, authorities said Tuesday. Snow forced the closure of schools and highways in many areas, and avalanche warnings were issued for some Western regions.
"I wouldn't call it a common occurrence to see winds this strong with this kind of snow," Izzi said. "This isn't something we see every year."
The cold air and wind gusts as high as 70 mph slammed into the Midwest, where fog created problems for air travel Tuesday in Chicago. About 350 flights were canceled Tuesday at O'Hare International Airport, said Chicago Department of Aviation spokesman Karen Pride.
The system also dragged frigid air across the northern Plains. The Weather Service reported a midday temperature of 24 degrees below zero at Glasgow, Montana. North Dakota registered wind chill factors of 54 below zero at Garrison, while Williston hit a low of 24 below.
Most of Minnesota was under wind chill warnings until noon Wednesday due to indexes that fell into the minus 30 degree level. It was as low as 50 degrees below freezing in Hibbing.
Though only light snow fell in western, central and eastern Iowa on Tuesday, winds snapping as fast as 60 mph caused visibility problems, and temperatures dropped into single digits.
In north central and eastern Iowa, forecasters expected strong winds and blowing snow to continue overnight, and for temperatures to possibly dip to 10 below zero.
"It's a little worse than your average snowstorm," said Rod Donovan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Des Moines, Iowa. "The biggest impact is that the driving conditions can change quickly with this type of storm. Once it begins, travel is quite hazardous."
Some 1,500 workers went home early from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, while critical medical staff were put up in hotels so they could stay close to serve patients. The blustery winds also put flight operations on ice at the Rochester airport.
Firefighters in southwestern Indiana pulled two bodies from a mobile home near Evansville that had been turned on its side by winds in a thunderstorm, WEHT-TV reported.
Residents near Danville, west of Indianapolis, reported funnel clouds, and damage was reported to a home and the Morgan County Courthouse in Martinsville.
The National Weather Service reported an unconfirmed tornado touchdown near Okawville, Illinois. A corner of the roof peeled off a high school in Nashville, Illinonis, but no injuries were reported.
Temperatures in Illinois dropped from Tuesday's highs in the 40s to about zero overnight. In anticipation, some central Illinois schools canceled Wednesday classes.
In Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, winds as strong as 70 mph and dime-size hail were reported Tuesday. Two unconfirmed funnel clouds were reported, said Dick Knaup, the county's emergency management director.
The week began with heavy snow pummeling mountain areas from Washington state to northern Arizona as two storms converged, one from hard-hit California and another from the Gulf of Alaska, meteorologists said. Watch residents struggle in Spokane, Washington »
The storms were followed Tuesday by a third that threatened to leave up to 20 inches of snow in Idaho's mountains, said Jay Breidenbach of the Weather Service office in Boise, Idaho.
A fourth storm was on the way to the interior West: "By Thursday, the next storm will be right on our doorstep. This is quite a storm system," Breidenbach said.
The Navajo reservation, which sprawls across parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, was under an emergency declaration because of the possibility that melting snow could create flooding.
In the snow farther west, avalanche danger forced officials to close Interstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass, Washington state's main east-west artery across the Cascade Mountains. The pass was to remain closed until Wednesday morning, Meagan McFadden of the state Department of Transportation said.
More than 200 trucks were backed up at North Bend, waiting to move freight across the pass. On a typical weekday, as many as 7,000 trucks travel I-90 over Snoqualmie Pass, she added.
Snow also closed highways in Minnesota, Colorado and Wyoming.
Two of three snowmobilers lost in the mountains west of Denver were found late Tuesday, said Summit County sheriff's spokeswoman Paulette Horr. The third was still missing.
In Oregon, two snowmobilers were rescued Monday after spending two nights in the Wallowa Mountains, where they were trapped by storms. Authorities said the two were dressed warmly and equipped with survival gear, matches and an avalanche beacon.
wij hadden eergister temperatuur verschil van 20 graden celsius, ik keek sochtends het was 18 graden! 6 uur later -2
nu sneeuwt het een beetje, is wel leuk, lekker met een front wheel drive auto donuts draaien enzo
nu sneeuwt het een beetje, is wel leuk, lekker met een front wheel drive auto donuts draaien enzo
Mijn usericon is mede mogelijk gemaakt door wonderer.
Live from Sparta MO
JOE-ES-EE!!
Live from Sparta MO
JOE-ES-EE!!
40 care pileup on Interstate 40 in heavy storm
LUBBOCK, Texas — Yet another storm swept across the central United States, burying areas still recovering from an earlier wave of severe weather, tying up air travel and killing at least four people.
A 40-car pileup on Interstate 40 in northern Texas that killed at least one person was caused by blowing snow that limited visibility and left icy patches Thursday, said Wayne Beighle, a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper.
The storm has been blamed for at least three other deaths: two in Texas and one in Oklahoma.
Elswhere in Texas, firefighters in several counties battled wind-driven wildfires, including a 2,000-acre (800-hectare) blaze northwest of Fort Worth that was expected to be contained later Thursday.
The storm pounded areas of the Midwest still rebounding from storms earlier in the week that spawned a mix of snow, brutal cold, tornadoes and hail.
More than 600 flights in and out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, one of the nation's busiest, were canceled, and others were delayed an average of two hours. Flights were also canceled at some other area airports, including Indianapolis, where 6 inches to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters) of snow was to predicted to fall.
In the West, searchers found the body of a Colorado man who died on snowmobiling trip in the mountains west of Denver.
John McKibben and two companions got lost during a one-day outing Sunday. The other two men were rescued Tuesday but told search crews that McKibben died Monday night.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327410,00.html
LUBBOCK, Texas — Yet another storm swept across the central United States, burying areas still recovering from an earlier wave of severe weather, tying up air travel and killing at least four people.
A 40-car pileup on Interstate 40 in northern Texas that killed at least one person was caused by blowing snow that limited visibility and left icy patches Thursday, said Wayne Beighle, a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper.
The storm has been blamed for at least three other deaths: two in Texas and one in Oklahoma.
Elswhere in Texas, firefighters in several counties battled wind-driven wildfires, including a 2,000-acre (800-hectare) blaze northwest of Fort Worth that was expected to be contained later Thursday.
The storm pounded areas of the Midwest still rebounding from storms earlier in the week that spawned a mix of snow, brutal cold, tornadoes and hail.
More than 600 flights in and out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, one of the nation's busiest, were canceled, and others were delayed an average of two hours. Flights were also canceled at some other area airports, including Indianapolis, where 6 inches to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters) of snow was to predicted to fall.
In the West, searchers found the body of a Colorado man who died on snowmobiling trip in the mountains west of Denver.
John McKibben and two companions got lost during a one-day outing Sunday. The other two men were rescued Tuesday but told search crews that McKibben died Monday night.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327410,00.html
Zo ziet een lokale waarschuwing er dan uit:
HEAVY SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS
EVENING...
EXPECT 6 TO 10 INCHES FROM HOLLAND THROUGH GRAND RAPIDS AND MOUNT
PLEASANT AND 8 TO 14 INCHES FROM KALAMAZOO TO LANSING AND JACKSON
BY THIS AFTERNOON.
SNOWFALL RATES MAY EXCEED AN INCH PER HOUR THIS MORNING. THIS WILL
RESULT IN VISIBILITIES LESS THAN A MILE WHICH WILL MAKE TRAVELING
HAZARDOUS. THE PERIOD OF HEAVIEST SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED BETWEEN 6
AM AND NOON. SNOW WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF BY LATE AFTERNOON.
A HEAVY SNOW WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW WILL MAKE
TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST
TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR
VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
Er zijn in West Michigan al meerdere mensen omgekomen door de kou, veelal mensen met motorpech en een slechte voorbereiding (geen warme kleren en eten in de auto etc.)
Weather Cams in Michigan.
Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
10 inches is ongeveer 25 cm. Dat zou een lekker weeralaram opleveren.quote:Op vrijdag 1 februari 2008 13:40 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Heavy snow
dat wil ik hier ook wel weer eens
Hier is de live radar.
Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
Veel sneeuw in Oregon
In de stad Detroit in Oregon op 140 kilometer afstand van Portland is de afgelopen weken veel sneeuw gevallen. Het totaal is opgelopen tot 4 meter sneeuw in 6 weken tijd.
In de omgeving is de noodtoestand uitgeroepen. Sinds de kerst valt er constant sneeuw. In deze regio is men wel sneeuw gewend, maar dit jaar valt er bijzonder veel. Bovendien ontstaan er steeds vaker lawines, die belangrijke wegen blokkeren.
Uit de omliggende plaatsen zijn extra sneeuwschuivers aangevoerd, om de straten enigszins berijdbaar te houden. Regelmatig valt ook de water en elektriciteitsvoorziening uit. Voor dit weekend wordt nog eens 60 centimeter sneeuw verwacht.
www.vwkweb.nl
4 meter in 6 weken.
In de stad Detroit in Oregon op 140 kilometer afstand van Portland is de afgelopen weken veel sneeuw gevallen. Het totaal is opgelopen tot 4 meter sneeuw in 6 weken tijd.
In de omgeving is de noodtoestand uitgeroepen. Sinds de kerst valt er constant sneeuw. In deze regio is men wel sneeuw gewend, maar dit jaar valt er bijzonder veel. Bovendien ontstaan er steeds vaker lawines, die belangrijke wegen blokkeren.
Uit de omliggende plaatsen zijn extra sneeuwschuivers aangevoerd, om de straten enigszins berijdbaar te houden. Regelmatig valt ook de water en elektriciteitsvoorziening uit. Voor dit weekend wordt nog eens 60 centimeter sneeuw verwacht.
www.vwkweb.nl
4 meter in 6 weken.
* appelsientje is jaloers...quote:Op vrijdag 1 februari 2008 13:53 schreef popolon het volgende:
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10 inches is ongeveer 25 cm. Dat zou een lekker weeralaram opleveren.
Hier is de live radar.
To deny our impulses would deny the very thing that make us human.
't Is koud in de midwest. Aan de grens met Canada -30 met gevoelstemperaturen van rond de -50.
Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
Icebox of the Nation, -40 C
MINNEAPOLIS — It lived up to its name: The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."
It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't even get his car trunk lid to close after he got out his charger to kick-start his dead battery. By late morning, the temperature had risen all the way to 18 — below zero.
"This is about as cold as it gets, this is bad. There's no wind — it's just cold," said McDougall, 48, a worker at The Fisherman, a convenience store and gas station in the town on the Canadian border. "People just don't go out, unless you have to go to work."
Like many Minnesota residents, he uses an electric engine block heater to keep his car from freezing.
"You plug in your car, for sure, and you put the car in the garage if you can," McDougall said. His garage is full of other things, so he had to park outside — a "big mistake."
The previous record low for Feb. 11 in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth. The cold was expected, he said: "When the winds finally died off and the skies cleared off, it just dropped."
The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.
Chilly air also spread into the Northeast on Monday and many schools in New York state between Buffalo and Syracuse closed or opened late. Single-digit temperatures plus high wind drove the wind chill factor to nearly 20 below across much of upstate New York.
Philadelphia had a "Code Blue" alert in effect, sending outreach crews to coax homeless people into shelters. Monday's low of 10 above zero.
Farther south, freezing rain hit southwest Missouri early Monday, making roads hazardous and losing schools. A coating of ice up to an inch thick was expected across much of southern and central Missouri, the weather service said.
"It's treacherous. If you can stay home this morning, do it," Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Dan Bracker said in Springfield.
Thousands of West Virginia homes and businesses had no electricity Monday after the state was hit by weekend wind gusts of up to 55 mph. At least nine counties closed schools because of power outages and the cold — the mountain city of Elkins had a low of 6 above.
Classes also were canceled Monday for a number of schools in Michigan, which remained in a deep freeze after a weekend of single-digit temperatures and gusty wind. One death was blamed on the weather.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330332,00.html
MINNEAPOLIS — It lived up to its name: The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."
It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't even get his car trunk lid to close after he got out his charger to kick-start his dead battery. By late morning, the temperature had risen all the way to 18 — below zero.
"This is about as cold as it gets, this is bad. There's no wind — it's just cold," said McDougall, 48, a worker at The Fisherman, a convenience store and gas station in the town on the Canadian border. "People just don't go out, unless you have to go to work."
Like many Minnesota residents, he uses an electric engine block heater to keep his car from freezing.
"You plug in your car, for sure, and you put the car in the garage if you can," McDougall said. His garage is full of other things, so he had to park outside — a "big mistake."
The previous record low for Feb. 11 in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth. The cold was expected, he said: "When the winds finally died off and the skies cleared off, it just dropped."
The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.
Chilly air also spread into the Northeast on Monday and many schools in New York state between Buffalo and Syracuse closed or opened late. Single-digit temperatures plus high wind drove the wind chill factor to nearly 20 below across much of upstate New York.
Philadelphia had a "Code Blue" alert in effect, sending outreach crews to coax homeless people into shelters. Monday's low of 10 above zero.
Farther south, freezing rain hit southwest Missouri early Monday, making roads hazardous and losing schools. A coating of ice up to an inch thick was expected across much of southern and central Missouri, the weather service said.
"It's treacherous. If you can stay home this morning, do it," Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Dan Bracker said in Springfield.
Thousands of West Virginia homes and businesses had no electricity Monday after the state was hit by weekend wind gusts of up to 55 mph. At least nine counties closed schools because of power outages and the cold — the mountain city of Elkins had a low of 6 above.
Classes also were canceled Monday for a number of schools in Michigan, which remained in a deep freeze after a weekend of single-digit temperatures and gusty wind. One death was blamed on the weather.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330332,00.html
hier ligt nu 5 cm MINSTENS ijzel overal, sommige plaatsen meerquote:Op maandag 11 februari 2008 20:36 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Icebox of the Nation, -40 C
Farther south, freezing rain hit southwest Missouri early Monday, making roads hazardous and losing schools. A coating of ice up to an inch thick was expected across much of southern and central Missouri, the weather service said.
"It's treacherous. If you can stay home this morning, do it," Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Dan Bracker said in Springfield.
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ziet er wel tof uit, ijspegels van 15 cm aan het huis/autobumper [ Bericht 59% gewijzigd door compier op 13-02-2008 05:14:05 ]
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Hundreds stranded in San Diego by surprise snowblizzard
SAN DIEGO — A surprise storm lashed San Diego County with rain and snow, stranding as many as 500 motorists on a mountain freeway and pouring mud down onto another roadway but causing no major damage or injuries.
The weather was expected to clear Friday.
A 27-mile stretch of Interstate 8, which runs through the mountains in the eastern county and is a main artery from California into Arizona, was reopened before dawn Friday following a 12-hour shutdown.
The California Highway Patrol began escorting cars through, although big-rig trucks still were not allowed. The freeway was closed shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday when blowing snow and ice made the roadway impassable.
"It was just a big dump of snow, real fast," accompanied by high winds, California Highway Patrol Officer Jim Bettencourt said.
Cars spun out and hundreds of motorists were stopped in their tracks.
"I've been here for a while and trying to get around, but there's no going around, so you just have to be patient," stranded motorist Patty Kresin told KNSD-TV in San Diego.
Search-and-rescue teams went car to car. At least 30 people were taken to temporary shelters at a fire station and a casino nearby, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
By early Friday, authorities were pretty sure they had found all the stranded motorists, but teams were still checking for cars that might have gone over the side of the road, Bettencourt said.
The abandoned cars hampered snow plows.
"Now we have a virtual parking lot of empty vehicles," Bettencourt said. "You've got big rigs that are jackknifed. So it's going to be a pretty daunting task."
The unexpectedly severe weather snarled other roadways. Authorities reported 179 crashes on county roads between midnight and 9 p.m. Thursday, compared to the usual figure of 50 to 75 crashes in a typical day.
Authorities also shut down an 8-mile stretch of road between Poway and Ramona because of mudslides. About 2 feet of mud and rocks slid onto the highway after heavy rain fell in an area burned by last fall's wildfires.
The stormy weather was caused by a low-pressure system that originated in the Gulf of Alaska and unexpectedly moved into Southern California.
Rain, hail and snow also fell in the desert near Palm Springs where temperatures had soared to 85 degrees just days ago.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330790,00.html
SAN DIEGO — A surprise storm lashed San Diego County with rain and snow, stranding as many as 500 motorists on a mountain freeway and pouring mud down onto another roadway but causing no major damage or injuries.
The weather was expected to clear Friday.
A 27-mile stretch of Interstate 8, which runs through the mountains in the eastern county and is a main artery from California into Arizona, was reopened before dawn Friday following a 12-hour shutdown.
The California Highway Patrol began escorting cars through, although big-rig trucks still were not allowed. The freeway was closed shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday when blowing snow and ice made the roadway impassable.
"It was just a big dump of snow, real fast," accompanied by high winds, California Highway Patrol Officer Jim Bettencourt said.
Cars spun out and hundreds of motorists were stopped in their tracks.
"I've been here for a while and trying to get around, but there's no going around, so you just have to be patient," stranded motorist Patty Kresin told KNSD-TV in San Diego.
Search-and-rescue teams went car to car. At least 30 people were taken to temporary shelters at a fire station and a casino nearby, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
By early Friday, authorities were pretty sure they had found all the stranded motorists, but teams were still checking for cars that might have gone over the side of the road, Bettencourt said.
The abandoned cars hampered snow plows.
"Now we have a virtual parking lot of empty vehicles," Bettencourt said. "You've got big rigs that are jackknifed. So it's going to be a pretty daunting task."
The unexpectedly severe weather snarled other roadways. Authorities reported 179 crashes on county roads between midnight and 9 p.m. Thursday, compared to the usual figure of 50 to 75 crashes in a typical day.
Authorities also shut down an 8-mile stretch of road between Poway and Ramona because of mudslides. About 2 feet of mud and rocks slid onto the highway after heavy rain fell in an area burned by last fall's wildfires.
The stormy weather was caused by a low-pressure system that originated in the Gulf of Alaska and unexpectedly moved into Southern California.
Rain, hail and snow also fell in the desert near Palm Springs where temperatures had soared to 85 degrees just days ago.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330790,00.html
Verkeerschaos in New York door onverwachte sneeuwstorm
Sneeuwstormen en ijzel hebben vrijdag in New York voor verkeerschaos gezorgd.
Wegens de onverwachte winterprik moesten op de drie luchthavens van de stad tegen de avond bijna 1.100 vluchten geannuleerd worden. Er waren wachttijden tot negen uur.
Op de spekgladde wegen viel het verkeer op vele plaatsen stil. Ruim 2.000 arbeiders waren zonder rusten aan de slag om de in totaal ongeveer 10.000 kilometer aan wegen in de miljoenenstad vrij te maken. De stad moest bijkomende hulp inhuren.
Vrijdagvoormiddag ontving de ombudsdienst meer dan 50.000 oproepen van radeloze New Yorkers, die niet wisten hoe ze op hun werk konden geraken. Tegen de avond verbeterde de situatie zich enigszins.
In de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag kwam er na enkele dagen helder weer plotseling een sneeuwstorm opsteken. In Central Park in hartje Manhattan viel volgens de weerkundige dienst 15 centimeter sneeuw, in de wijk Staten Island viel met 20 centimeter een record. Voor New York was het de zwaarste sneeuwval in twee jaar.
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Sneeuwstormen en ijzel hebben vrijdag in New York voor verkeerschaos gezorgd.
Wegens de onverwachte winterprik moesten op de drie luchthavens van de stad tegen de avond bijna 1.100 vluchten geannuleerd worden. Er waren wachttijden tot negen uur.
Op de spekgladde wegen viel het verkeer op vele plaatsen stil. Ruim 2.000 arbeiders waren zonder rusten aan de slag om de in totaal ongeveer 10.000 kilometer aan wegen in de miljoenenstad vrij te maken. De stad moest bijkomende hulp inhuren.
Vrijdagvoormiddag ontving de ombudsdienst meer dan 50.000 oproepen van radeloze New Yorkers, die niet wisten hoe ze op hun werk konden geraken. Tegen de avond verbeterde de situatie zich enigszins.
In de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag kwam er na enkele dagen helder weer plotseling een sneeuwstorm opsteken. In Central Park in hartje Manhattan viel volgens de weerkundige dienst 15 centimeter sneeuw, in de wijk Staten Island viel met 20 centimeter een record. Voor New York was het de zwaarste sneeuwval in twee jaar.
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Hey Grand Rapids. 
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