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.
Vroege winterprik in het westen van de VS
De streek rond Montana Wyoming werd geteisterd door vroege sneeuwval, er viel ruim 7 cm sneeuw. Hierbij werd het record van oktober 1969 verbroken.
De sneeuwbuien gingen gepaard met felle wind, dit veroorzaakte heel wat verkeersellende, wegen werden versperd door omgewaaide bomen.
Meer dan 2500 gezinnen hadden geen stroomvoorziening. Ook het vliegverkeer ondervond hinder door de weersomstandigheden. Vluchten liepen vertragingen op of werden geannuleerd.
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De streek rond Montana Wyoming werd geteisterd door vroege sneeuwval, er viel ruim 7 cm sneeuw. Hierbij werd het record van oktober 1969 verbroken.
De sneeuwbuien gingen gepaard met felle wind, dit veroorzaakte heel wat verkeersellende, wegen werden versperd door omgewaaide bomen.
Meer dan 2500 gezinnen hadden geen stroomvoorziening. Ook het vliegverkeer ondervond hinder door de weersomstandigheden. Vluchten liepen vertragingen op of werden geannuleerd.
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Kan iemand Al Gore even bellen dat z'n global warming niet doorgaat?
Haha, U schakelt nog. Test een DAF !
quote:The first big winter storm arrived in Illinois and neighboring states in early December 2008. Heavy snow caused fatal car accidents and delayed air travel in Chicago and regional airports for hours. This image of the freshly fallen snow was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on December 2. Clouds lingered over Lake Michigan, but clear skies over northern Illinois showed the blanket of snow. The whitened landscape highlights the paths of rivers and streams as well as urban areas, which appear cement gray. According to AP news reports, “[t]the heaviest snow fell Sunday and early Monday across a stretch of central Illinois roughly along Interstate 74 from west of Peoria to east of the Bloomington-Normal area.”
Oi oi...
TVP voor mijn vakantie in januari naar Carolina/Virginia/Pennsylvania en NY
TVP voor mijn vakantie in januari naar Carolina/Virginia/Pennsylvania en NY
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Pfff.quote:Op woensdag 10 december 2008 12:07 schreef Damzkieee het volgende:
Oi oi...
TVP voor mijn vakantie in januari naar Carolina/Virginia/Pennsylvania en NY
Jij als NHL fan.In West Michigan viel van het weekend bijna 30cm sneeuw.
Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
Weer een heleboel amerikanen zonder stroom.
New England Storm Cuts Power to More Than a Million
New England Storm Cuts Power to More Than a Million
quote:Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- An ice storm that moved through the eastern U.S. overnight knocked down trees and wires from southern New York to Maine, cutting power to about 1.25 million customers and closing roads, schools and train lines.
The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings from southwestern Pennsylvania to northern Maine as the low- pressure system dumped more than 7 inches (18 centimeters) of snow and coated tree limbs, streets and wires with as much as an inch of ice.
The governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire declared states of emergency after about 700,000 homes and businesses lost power. In Maine, Governor John Baldacci ordered state government closed for the day.
At the Miss Worcester Diner in Worcester, Massachusetts, customers were coming in with stories of downed limbs and power failures, with some saying they’d been told they may not have electricity until the end of the weekend. Owner Kim Kniskern, 41, said she had to drive under a fallen tree to get to work.
“My husband was behind me in his truck and he couldn’t fit under the tree, so he had to go another way,” she said.
Entergy Corp. said it slowed its Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor to 82 percent of capacity at the request of the power grid operator after “massive power outages” threatened the grid’s stability. The plant is located 103 miles (166 kilometers) northwest of Boston.
Lines Down
“There’s massive power outages, ice on lines, trees on lines,” Entergy spokesman Larry Smith said. “We’re just riding out the ice storm.”
About 500,000 National Grid Plc customers were without electricity in New England and New York, including about 290,000 in central and eastern Massachusetts, according to the company’s Web site.
“It’s clear that we will be at this in New England and New York for at least several days,” National Grid spokesman Steve Brady said in a telephone interview. “We’ve got a fair amount of physical damage to the network, trees and tree limbs and that sort of thing. We’re going to have an army out there.”
Amtrak canceled service through the early afternoon on its Empire Line between New York City and the state capital of Albany because of downed trees and wires. It also halted trains on its Downeaster line between Boston and Portland, Maine, and its Maple Leaf line between New York City and Toronto, spokeswoman Karina Romero said in a telephone interview.
Storm Moving Out
“It’s turned from ice to rain so we’re hoping that will help things,” Romero said. “The good news is the storm seems to be moving.”
The American Red Cross is opening shelters throughout the Northeast to help people affected by the storm, including 11 in New Hampshire and six in upstate New York. The Granite chapter in Concord, New Hampshire, opened 12 shelters statewide after being “inundated” with calls for aid, spokeswoman Becky Field said.
“We definitely have had a lot of calls,” Field said. “Although the weather here in Concord is letting up quite a bit, a lot of people don’t have power.”
quote:IJsstorm treft deel Verenigde Staten
BOSTON - Een krachtige ijsstorm heeft vrijdag in het noordoosten van de Verenigde Staten grote problemen veroorzaakt. In zeven staten, waaronder New York, kwamen ruim een miljoen huishoudens en ondernemingen zonder stroom te zitten.
In meerdere staten werd de noodtoestand afgekondigd.
In Maine zagen de autoriteiten zich gedwongen overheidsgebouwen te sluiten. De gouverneur van New Hampshire sprak over een uiterst ernstige situatie.
De regering van Massachusetts zette vijfhonderd leden van de Nationale Garde in om wegen van ijs te bevrijden en bewoners te helpen.
quote:In het noordoosten van Amerika zitten ruim een miljoen Amerikanen zonder stroom nadat een zware ijsstorm over het land trok. Het ijs heeft hoogspanningskabels en pylonen doen knappen. Het kan nog dagen duren voordat alle Amerikanen terug stroom hebben.
"De regen en het ijs veroorzaken problemen. Het ijs weegt op de boomtakken, waardoor die afbreken en op de elektriciteitskabels vallen", vertelt de woordvoerder van de regionale elektriciteitsmaatschappij Northeast Utilities.
De ijsstorm is de ergste in jaren. Massachussetts, New Hampshire en delen van Maine en New York hebben de noodtoestand afgekondigd. Verwacht wordt dat de stormen nog dagen zullen blijven duren, en dat de temperatuur nog meer zal dalen.
De storm heeft op dit moment aan 4 mensen het leven gekost. (Gazet van Antwerpen)
quote:IceStorm strikes Northeast US
CONCORD, N.H. — An ice storm to compare with some of the Northeast's worst made a mess of the region Friday, leaving 1.25 million homes and businesses in seven states without power as it forced schools to close and toppled ice-laden trees and power lines onto slippery roads.
More than half of New Hampshire's homes and businesses lost power, and it was expected to take several days to completely restore electricity there and in other states. The storm wreaked havoc from Maine to Pennsylvania, leaving a sparkling, ice-covered landscape that was too destructive for many to find beautiful.
"This is pathetic," said Bob Cott of Portland, Maine, who lost power. "I'm already sick of winter and we have nine days to go before it officially begins."
At least one death was related to the storm: New Hampshire officials said a 49-year-old Danville man who lived in a camper died of carbon monoxide poisoning after turning on his generator when his power went out Thursday night.
For New Hampshire, the power outages dwarfed those during the infamous Ice Storm of '98, when some residents spent more than a week in the dark.
In Hampstead, N.H., Mark Cegelis, 36, said things were hectic at his neighborhood gas station, which was jammed with people trying to get gas for home generators.
"It's kind of lawless out there right now," he said. "There's a lot of people very frustrated stacking up at the gas stations. It's pretty ugly."
He bought 21 gallons for himself and tried to deliver some to friends in Derry but couldn't get there because downed trees blocked roads. So the two friends came to him instead, and were expected to hunker down with Cegelis' family, his parents and another friend until power was restored.
"I'm sure they'd do the same thing for us," he said. "It's treacherous out there."
Nearly two dozen shelters were set up across the southern part of the state, and authorities were working to get generators to several nursing homes. About 35 people, mostly elderly, had settled in at a shelter at Portsmouth High School by early afternoon.
"All the motels have no electricity, and that's why I'm here," said Duke Straychan of Hampton, who can't do without power because he uses an oxygen tank at night. People at the shelter dined on American chop suey and shepherd's pie and watched "The Polar Express" in the cafeteria.
Gov. John Lynch urged residents to "please go out of your way" to check on their neighbors, especially those who are elderly and live alone.
Both Lynch and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared states of emergency Friday morning and called up members of the National Guard. Five hundred Massachusetts Guard members were cleaning up debris and clearing access to downed power lines. Lynch put 150 on alert and deployed 20.
quote:VS getroffen door bar winterweer
WASHINGTON - Grote delen van de Verenigde Staten zijn getroffen door bar winterweer met hevige sneeuwval en sneeuwstormen. Vooral het noorden is zwaar getroffen, meldden Amerikaanse media zondag. Door het noodweer liep het vliegverkeer op een aantal belangrijke luchthavens grote vertragingen op. Ook werden veel wegen onbegaanbaar en kwamen tienduizenden zonder stroom te zitten.
Er viel de afgelopen dagen zeker een dode. In Massachusetts in het noordoosten kwam een man om het leven toen hij werd geraakt door een grote boomtak die door het gewicht van sneeuw was afgebroken.
Beperkt zicht
In het noorden van Iowa werden automobilisten opgeroepen niet de weg op te gaan vanwege het zeer beperkte zicht door zware sneeuwval. In Iowa en Illinois in het Midwesten is gewaarschuwd voor hevige sneeuwstormen.
Ook in de staten Michigan en Maine worden dergelijke waarschuwingen afgegeven. In Maine valt zondag en maandag waarschijnlijk 25 tot 45 centimeter sneeuw. De temperaturen zijn er tot ver onder het vriespunt gezakt.
Meteorologen
Ook de staten Washington en Oregon in het noordwesten zijn zwaar getroffen door sneeuwstormen. Volgens meteorologen is het zeker vijftien jaar geleden dat dit deel van de Verenigde Staten met zulk bar winterweer te maken had.
Hallo.quote:Ook in de staten Michigan en Maine worden dergelijke waarschuwingen afgegeven.
Patience is not one of my virtues, neither is memory. Or patience for that matter.
Het is belachelijk weer 
Bijna 50 cm in twee dagen hier.
Bijna 50 cm in twee dagen hier.
"Pain is my friend. I can trust pain. I can trust pain to make my life utterly miserable."
"My brain is too smart for me."
"We don't need no education." "Yes you do, you just used a double negative."
"My brain is too smart for me."
"We don't need no education." "Yes you do, you just used a double negative."
Ah, daar komen we toch nietquote:
Hoe is het weer around NY/WAS/PIT ?
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Rest van het berichtquote:CHICAGO — Rain and rapidly rising temperatures accompanied by thick fog threatened to cause flooding Saturday in the Midwest after days of Arctic cold, heavy snow and ice.
Thick ice on roads that contributed to dozens of deaths had thawed and mountains of snow turned into pools and streams of water.
"It's a Catch 22," said Marisa Kollias, spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Transportation. "We're getting rid of one problem, the ice, but we're getting another problem with the flooding
The National Weather Service posted flood watches and warnings Saturday for parts of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri. As much as 2 inches of rain fell in two hours during the night in west-central Illinois, the National Weather Service reported Saturday.
And as warm air collided with cold, the weather service posted tornado watches for parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Kansas.
After subzero temperatures in places earlier in the week, Saturday morning readings were in the 40s as far north as Cheboygan, Mich., at the top of the state's Lower Peninsula, the weather service said. However, up to 7 inches of snow is possible in the state Sunday, the agency said.
