Winterweer in de V.S: Snow, Blizzards and Storms

Midden VS? Waar dan? Is net dat ik zeg "er gebeurt iets ergens!"... dat komt toch ook niet in het nieuws?

Denver ligt al weken onder 'vuur' zeg maar.

Wat hebben ze daar teveel dan? Van mij mogen ze van de 3 meter, 2,70 houden.

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Op dinsdag 2 januari 2007 00:06 schreef Drugshond het volgende:

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Thx to ondeugend.

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Wat ze daar te veel hebben hebben we hier te weinig voor de tijd van het jaar.

Wat we de laatste jaren hebben gehad is statistisch genoeg geweest voor de komende 70 jaar.
De laatste tijd was het gewoon héél extreem

je zou haast een heel apart topic kunnen openen voor het weer in de VS.
Als je ziet wat voor verschillen daar zijn, overstromingen, hittegolven, sneeuwstormen, tornado's. Het lijkt daar elke week wel mis te zijn.

Metertje sneeuw zeg, wanneer krijgen wij dat eens

Nog twee leuke plaatjes dan van hetzelfde gebied

Op sommige plekken is zo'n 20 feet gevallen, wat zo'n zes meter sneeuw is.

Flink veel sneeuw sus ook in South Park

Foto's ergens uit uit Colorado (La Junta voor iemand die het kent):







Dikke chaos dus.
Check vooral die ene koe op de laatste foto die helemaal is weggezakt

Ik denk dat ik dan toch liever geen sneeuw heb...
Is ook niet tof, zoveel dat je dak instort...

Nog meer:


National Guard dropt nu voedsel, water en hooi voor de vastgesneeuwde mensen en hun vee.
Tijd geleden was er ook een blizzard waardoor duizenden stukken vee dood gingen


http://www.foxnews.com/ph(...)206_colorado_pe6.jpg

En door bevroren bovenleidingen zitten er ook tienduizenden zonder stroom:

LAMAR, Colo. — Ranchers, pilots and snowmobilers on Wednesday searched for thousands of cattle trapped by heavy snow and high drifts in Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico.

Eight Colorado National Guard helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane were dispatched in the state's campaign to save livestock herds snowed in by back-to-back holiday blizzards. Volunteer snowmobile search-and-rescue groups from elsewhere in the state joined the effort on the ground.

We think there are probably 30,000 head out there that are at risk that we're having to make sure we feed," said Maj. Gen. Mason Whitney of the Colorado Guard.

An undetermined number of cows died in southwestern Kansas. One feedlot owner in Haskell County, Kan., said he lost 450 cattle and 20 dairy cows.

"I don't know what we are going to do, how we are going to dispose of them," County Commissioner Gene Ochs said of the carcasses.

Emergency crews worked through the long weekend to rescue stranded motorists, evacuate people with health problems and deliver food, water and medicine to the region's snowbound residents.

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Op woensdag 3 januari 2007 12:23 schreef Oblivion het volgende:
Ik denk dat ik dan toch liever geen sneeuw heb...
Is ook niet tof, zoveel dat je dak instort...

Denk dat de gebouwen hier wel sterker zijn over het algemeen.

Maar sneeuw is . Hoewel dit een beetje teveel van het goede is.

Avalanche buries Cars

A huge avalanche buried cars Saturday and may have pushed others over the edge on a highway near 11,307-foot-high Berthoud Pass, Colorado highway officials said.

"Our crews said it was the largest they have ever seen. It took three paths," said Stacey Stegman, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.

Eight people had been rescued and one was taken to a hospital, Stegman said.
The slide buried at least two cars, state Patrolman Eric Wynn told FOXNews.



Crews were probing the area for other vehicles, including any that may have gone off the road, Stegman said.

The avalanche was described as 100 feet wide and 15 feet deep.

Berthoud Pass is the main route to Winter Park, one of Colorado's largest ski areas.

The highway is completely closed at this time, and will remain closed for the rest of the day, Wynn confirmed.

Colorado was hammered Friday with its third snowstorm in as many weeks, complicating recovery efforts from back-to-back blizzards and raising fears that livestock losses would keep mounting.

The Denver area was blanketed with up to 8 inches of snow, while nearly a 1 foot fell in the foothills west of the city before the storm moved into New Mexico.

In Kansas, an estimated 60,000 people were still without power after more than a week, and between 6,000 to 10,000 customers remained in the dark in Nebraska, according to Nebraska Public Power District.

Crews in Colorado worked around the clock to clear roads so residents could get to stores for food and medicine. Several school districts canceled classes because winds gusts up to 30 mph had reduced visibility.

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Op donderdag 4 januari 2007 09:54 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
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BF-2 mod ?

Hier nog wat meer foto's. Echt veel ijs.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/06-12-31b.htm

Blizzard in Southeast May Have Been One of Worst in History click


_{January 7, 2007
The Denver Channel}

gave foto's

ondertussen ....


Round 4 of Cold and Snow for Colorado, Are You Kidding?

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Op donderdag 4 januari 2007 12:34 schreef Steenarend het volgende:

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Denk dat de gebouwen hier wel sterker zijn over het algemeen.

Maar sneeuw is . Hoewel dit een beetje teveel van het goede is.

vorig jaar de sneeuw niet meegekregen?

maar erg gave foto's, ook al vind het vee wel zielig

7 Deaths Blamed on Icy Midwest Storm click

<sub>Sunday January 14, 2007 8:16 AM

By MARCUS KABEL

Associated Press Writer</sub>

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - A crippling winter storm lashed the central part of the nation with another blast of freezing rain, sleet and snow Saturday, causing widespread power outages and tying up highways and airports.

't Blijft pittig weer in de 'Rockies', temperaturen van -20 tot -30 zijn geen uitzondering.

Jep sprak net nog iemand uit Idaho, al dagen temperaturen van -17 tot -22

Freezing weather grips nation's midsection
_{115,000 homes without power; frigid temps reach California; 7 dead}

Hoewel ik niet vies ben van een echte goede sneeuwstorm hoop je toch niet in aanraking te komen met een ijsstorm. Zelfs Texas en Californie krijgen het zwaar te verduren.

Jan. 14: This satellite image shows cloud cover across the Southern Plains and into the Ohio Valley, dropping rain snow and ice throughout the region.

Van nu.nl:

Californie - Landbouwers vrezen gevolgen voor het citrusfruit. De oogst van sinaasappels, mandarijnen en citroenen vertegenwoordigt een waarde van bijna een miljard dollar.

oops, da's een pijnlijke tegenslag.

Nog wat linkjes

Severe Weather Map USA --> http://www.weather.gov/view/largemap.php

NOAA Long Range Map USA --> http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.(...)/threats/threats.gif

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Sneeuw in California Laat dat maar hier heen komen dan

Als je dat allemaal op het nieuws ziet zou ik toch best balen als ik daar nou zit. IJsstormen met terwijl er geen stroom is en 2 cm ijs op allés ligt

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Op maandag 15 januari 2007 11:31 schreef -skippybal- het volgende:
Als je dat allemaal op het nieuws ziet zou ik toch best balen als ik daar nou zit. IJsstormen met terwijl er geen stroom is en 2 cm ijs op allés ligt

das nog altijd te weinig voor een elf-stedentocht

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Op maandag 15 januari 2007 11:31 schreef -skippybal- het volgende:
Als je dat allemaal op het nieuws ziet zou ik toch best balen als ik daar nou zit. IJsstormen met terwijl er geen stroom is en 2 cm ijs op allés ligt

Stroom is wel klote natuurlijk.. Maar tog zou ik het wel een keer willen mee maken. Heb al veel sneeuw in Oostenrijk gezien. In 1998 was er in Oberstdorf +- 900 meter hoogte geen sneeuw.. Wij waren bang dat we voor de gek gehouden waren door de Hoteleigenaar. We rijden naar rond de 1300 meter en gelijk muren van sneeuw ( 5 - 6 meter ) dat zou ik hier ook wel willen zien, mja onmogelijk denk

Een paar jaar geleden was er hier ook dat o-ver-al een centimeter ijzel lag.
Je kon toen dus gewoon niks doen he. Ik ging op de schaats via het fietspad naar school

McALESTER, Okla — Hundreds of people hunkered down in emergency shelters and thousands stuck it out in darkened homes after a winter storm that left 54 dead in nine states.

About 340,000 homes and businesses in several states were still without electricity late Tuesday after a storm that brought ice, snow, flooding and high winds to a swath of the country from Texas to Maine.

At the First Baptist Church in McAlester, Okla., where most of the city's 18,000 residents have lacked power for four days, residents huddled under blankets and in front of space heaters.

"If it wasn't for the shelter, I don't know where we'd be," said Tara Guzman, 38, while playing board games with her four children. "We're tough; we lasted when the power went out until (Monday). We brought mattresses out in the living room and cuddled."

Subfreezing temperatures were expected to continue in the state Wednesday, with little sunshine to aid in melting the ice until Thursday or Friday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Brown.

Gov. Brad Henry on Wednesday planned to visit McAlester and other hard-hit areas of Oklahoma, where 92,000 homes and businesses remained without power.

"I want to see the damage firsthand and make sure we are doing everything possible to help the people there," Henry said.

Josh and B.J. Medley elected to stay in their dark home on Tuesday, noting they had electrical generators, a gas stove and propane heaters. B.J. Medley also had $100 worth of groceries cooling on her front porch.

"It's hard to keep milk, because milk freezes and goes bad," she complained.

The storm had largely blown out of New England by Tuesday, but forecasters expected more freezing rain to hit parts of Texas on Wednesday night, said Dennis Cook of the National Weather Service's Austin-San Antonio office. Gusty winds were forecast to make the Northeast bone-chilling through Wednesday night before warming Thursday.

Eighty-five shelters across Missouri were expected to accommodate more than 3,600 people Tuesday night, according to the State Emergency Management Agency. About 163,000 homes and businesses still had no electricity.

In the town of Buffalo — population 2,800 — nearly all stores, gas stations and restaurants were closed Tuesday.

"There are no services," Mayor Jerry Hardesty said. "I've talked to residents who have lived here 50 years and nobody can remember it ever being this bad."

The town lost all its power by Saturday. Water towers ran dry Sunday, and water service was restored only late Monday, after the National Guard hooked a generator up to a pumping station.

On Tuesday, ice, sleet and snow forced Texas officials to move the governor's inauguration ceremony indoors for the first time in five decades. Gov. Rick Perry's inaugural parade was canceled and part of Interstate 35 near the University of Texas campus was shut down.

Numerous schools and universities, as well as some local and state government offices, were also closed across the region.

Waves of freezing rain, sleet and snow since Friday have been blamed for at least 20 deaths in Oklahoma, nine in Missouri, eight in Iowa, four in New York, five in Texas, three in Michigan, three in Arkansas and one each in Maine and Indiana.

Elsewhere, Washington state's Puget Sound area, known for drizzle rather than its recent freezing weather, was hit by another round of snow Tuesday, snarling traffic and closing schools for more than 380,000 students. The Oregon Legislature delayed hearings and sessions until afternoon because of the weather.

In California, three nights of freezing weather have destroyed up to three-quarters of the state's $1 billion citrus crop, prompting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to ask the federal government on Tuesday for disaster aid. Other crops, including avocados and strawberries, also suffered damage.

"This is not just about the crop this year. It could also have a devastating effect next year," Schwarzenegger said.

Vooral juist in het zuidwesten is het bizar weer: Texas en Californie krijgen er goed van langs.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- The latest in a series of icy storms blamed for at least 65 deaths in nine states spread snow and freezing rain across Texas all the way to the Mexican border Wednesday, closing the Alamo, glazing freeways and immobilizing communities unaccustomed to such cold.

Accumulations were light by many regions' standards -- the Dallas area topped out at a half-inch of snow, and more than 3 inches piled up west of Fort Worth. But hundreds of flights were canceled, tens of thousands of customers lost electricity and a 300-mile stretch of Interstate 10, a major east-west artery, was closed.

Marc and Courtney Unger, visiting San Antonio with their 3- and 7-year-old boys from Tallahassee, Florida, found most of their plans wrecked by the cold weather and closed attractions. The Alamo shut down for the morning but reopened at noon.

Instead of visiting the Children's Museum or Sea World, the boys amused themselves knocking icicles off signs and benches.

"We're very disappointed it didn't go those few extra degrees colder for snow," Marc Unger said, laughing.

Storms nationwide since Friday have abruptly ended what had been an unseasonably mild winter in many areas, plunging hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses into icy darkness, many for days. Ten deaths were blamed on the storm in Texas. (Watch the many ways ice is creating havoc )

In Oklahoma, the ice storm killed at least 23 people, most in auto accidents, and about 75,000 customers in eastern Oklahoma remained without power.

In the mountains north of Los Angeles, California, a sudden snowstorm brought traffic to a halt on busy Interstate 5. Snow mixed with hail also fell at lower elevations of northern Los Angeles County, leaving some neighborhoods with rare coatings of white.

California already had been suffering from an unusual cold snap that threatened many of its winter crops and wiped out most of its citrus.

In Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, roads were largely empty Wednesday morning. Motorists unaccustomed to driving on ice took the day off after waking up to light snow, trees sagging with ice- and icicle-draped cars.

Many schools closed for the day or opened late. (Watch large chunks of ice fall off house )

Freezing rain and sleet were reported in Laredo and other communities along the Mexican border. In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, icicles hung from famous fountains and other landmarks.

Tree limbs laden with ice snapped and brought down electrical lines in the San Antonio area, where as many 65,000 customers lost power at the height of the storm late Tuesday.

More than 350 flights out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, San Antonio and Austin were canceled as officials worked to de-ice runways.

About 50 motorists were stranded at a convention center in Ozona. The jailhouse lent blankets and pillows to the emergency shelter.

"They have air mattresses and cots for everybody -- and pizza and doughnuts," said Joe Stokhaug, at the shelter with his pregnant wife.

In addition to the fatalities in Oklahoma and Texas, the storm was blamed for 11 deaths in Missouri, eight in Iowa, four each in New York and Michigan, three in Arkansas and one each in Maine and Indiana.

In Missouri, more than 120,000 homes and businesses were still waiting for power to be restored, but some residents were told the work could take several more days.

More than 3,600 people sought relief from the cold at 85 shelters throughout the state.

Amazing car collisions

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2007 14:17 schreef francorex het volgende:
Amazing car collisions

Wow!

Hier in Michigan valt het nog mee in vergelijking met het midwesten, de mensen zijn hier wel wat gewend ook. Je ziet hier eigenlijk geen verkeerschaos als het sneeuwt of stormt.

Wel grappig om te zien dat er nu ook sneeuwscooters als vervoermiddel gebruikt worden. Of het legaal is weet ik niet, ze rijden wel zonder kenteken. Ook zie je mensen die langlaufend naar hun werk gaan. Toch zijn veel scholen gisteren en vandaag dicht.

Als het echt heftig wordt blijf ik gewoon thuis.

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- The latest in a series of winter storms battered Colorado on Sunday, dumping several inches of snow and whipping up strong wind that created whiteout conditions on the state's eastern plains.

Accidents caused by blowing snow and icy roads closed southbound Interstate 25 near Fort Collins for two hours Sunday morning. State Patrol Master Trooper Ron Watkins said no injuries were reported.

Wind up to 60 mph piled the snow into drifts as high as 3 feet in parts of the state, the National Weather Service said.

Meanwhile, a plane in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with 104 people on board skidded off a runway in snowy weather Sunday after the Northwest Airlines crew aborted the flight as it began accelerating for takeoff, airline officials said.

No serious injuries were reported in the late-morning incident.

The crew of Flight 1726 bound from Milwaukee to Detroit, Michigan, "opted to discontinue its takeoff due to an engine problem," an airline statement said.

The plane came to a stop off the runway surface, the statement said.

The plane skidded when the pilot applied the brakes, said Pat Rowe, spokeswoman for General Mitchell International Airport.

A blizzard warning was in effect for much of eastern and northeastern Colorado, and the State Patrol advised against unnecessary travel.

The stormy weather in Colorado followed closely on the heels of a storm that spread heavy snow across parts of the Plains on Saturday, limiting visibility and creating hazardous driving conditions.

That storm was blamed for at least eight traffic deaths: four in Nebraska, three in Kansas and one in Oklahoma

The Plains storm spared much of Oklahoma from heavy snow, but utilities reported about 30,000 homes and business were still without power Sunday because of an ice storm one week earlier.

"We're coming down to what we expect to be very near the end of the restoration process," said Stan Whiteford, a spokesman for Public Service Company of Oklahoma, which reported about 4,000 customers still blacked out, mostly in the McAlester area. "We think we're going to be pretty close to wrapping things up."









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Op donderdag 18 januari 2007 14:17 schreef francorex het volgende:
Amazing car collisions

pff.. ik was allang uitgestapt.. je houdt de auto toch niet meer tegen.. dan maar ff springen, iig geen persoonlijke ongelukken..

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Op maandag 22 januari 2007 13:26 schreef addie het volgende:

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pff.. ik was allang uitgestapt.. je houdt de auto toch niet meer tegen.. dan maar ff springen, iig geen persoonlijke ongelukken..

je hoort iemand ook nog roepen " GET OOOUTTT "

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Op maandag 22 januari 2007 13:27 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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je hoort iemand ook nog roepen " GET OOOUTTT "

volgens mij hoor je halverwege ook nog help, maar dat kan mijn verbeelding zijn

ERIE, Pa — About 50 vehicles, including an ambulance, were involved in a massive chain-reaction crash on Interstate 90 under whiteout conditions Thursday, leaving one person dead, officials said.

Police closed I-90 in both directions over an approximately 10-mile section east of Erie to the New York border after the 12:45 p.m. accident. The highway remained closed Thursday night and authorities did not know when it would reopen, state police spokesman Cpl. Mark Zaleski said.

Among the vehicles involved were 22 tractor-trailers, he said.

Several tanker trucks were involved and a hazardous materials crew was dispatched to the scene, but the trucks were not damaged and remained upright, said Maria Finn, a spokeswoman for thePennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.



One person was killed, Zaleski said. Authorities were not releasing the person's information. Investigators are trying to determine whether the person died when he was thrown from a vehicle or pinned between two, Zaleski said.

A number of people sustained minor injuries, Finn said.

Police also closed southbound lanes of I-79 for several hours because of accidents south of Erie.

Doctors from St. Vincent Health Center in Erie were dispatched to help emergency crews treat victims and free them from wrecked cars on I-90, hospital spokeswoman Cyndy Patton said.

"We sent one of our emergency room physicians along with a trauma surgeon from Hamot (Medical Center) up to the scene," Patton said. "It's more to assist in extrication. They're just having trouble because of the pileup getting ambulances in and out of there."

St. Vincent and Hamot said they had a total of seven injured people from the I-90 accident plus two from crashes on Interstate 79. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.

Lucia Conti, a spokeswoman for Hamot Medical Center in Erie, said she expected the hospital would get as many as three more patients.

Ann Bloxdorf, deputy director of public safety for Erie County, said the I-90 accident occurred between the Wesleyville and Harborcreek exits, just east of Erie.

"I know there are evacuation efforts under way for stranded motorists to some warming shelters nearby," she said.

Zaleski said one vehicle in the crash was an ambulance carrying patients.

Snow was falling across western Pennsylvania at the time. Erie was expected to get up to 6 inches by late evening and possibly more overnight, according to the National Weather Service.

Geen schokkende verhalen vanuit Michigan maar dit weekend wordt het wel zo'n -20 graden. En heel veel sneeuw verwacht.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Blowing snow and intense cold was blamed for two more deaths on Wednesday — a total of 13 nationwide since the cold settled in — and kept schools closed for a second day and in some cases a third across much of Ohio and West Virginia.

The arctic weather disrupted flights from Chicago to the Northeast on Tuesday, leaving some travelers to camp out in airports overnight. Slick roads led to huge chain-reaction traffic accidents, and schools have been closed in places from Minnesota to upstate New York.

There was some relief Wednesday in the Great Lakes region.

Chicago woke up to temperatures around zero with a wind chill of 14 below zero — an improvement over its minus-30 wind chill Monday. The area was expected to rebound into the low 20s by the end of the week, National Weather Service meteorologist Tim Seeley said Tuesday.

The cold air returned to the northern Plains, where Hallock, Minn., had a temperature of 27 below zero early Wednesday, the weather service reported.

Five feet of snow in places
Residents of upstate New York were digging out from lake-effect squalls that dumped more than 5 feet of snow over a two-day period at the eastern end of Lake Ontario. The weather service reported 62 inches of snow at Oswego, 35 miles north of Syracuse.

In addition, ferry service was suspended on the Hudson River in upstate New York because the water began freezing over.

Despite the snow, most schools in Oswego County were back in session Wednesday. Meteorologists said some areas in the New York lake-effect snow belt could collect more than 100 inches before the system breaks up, which isn’t expected until at least the weekend.

In Ohio, snow and ice had not been removed from most residential streets in Columbus and Cincinnati, and nearly all schools in those areas were closed Wednesday. Most Cleveland schools were closed for a third straight day.

“We had a couple hundred passengers spend the night at the airport because all the hotel rooms in the area were taken, not just because of canceled flights but because highway travel was virtually impossible,” said Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport spokesman Ted Bushelman.

Elsewhere, Chicago city crews responded to more than 1,000 reports of frozen pipes Tuesday, said Department of Water Management spokesman Tom LaPorte. The cold also hampered firefighting efforts because emergency workers had to use propane torches to thaw frozen hydrants.

More than 140 flights were canceled at O’Hare International Airport, which reported average delays of 45 to 90 minutes for all arrivals and departures Tuesday night, city aviation department spokeswoman Wendy Abrams said.

“When the snow started falling it impacted visibility,” Abrams said. “That combined with deicing delays have slowed our operations at both airports.”
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CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- Blowing snow and intense cold blamed for 11 deaths across the country kept schools closed Wednesday across much of West Virginia, where temperatures have been at their lowest in more than a decade.

The arctic weather disrupted flights from Chicago to the Northeast on Tuesday, shut down some Amtrak service and caused huge chain-reaction traffic accidents. Schools also have been closed in places from Minnesota to upstate New York.

There was some relief Wednesday in the Great Lakes region.

Chicago woke up to temperatures around zero with a wind chill of 14 below zero -- an improvement over its minus-30 wind chill on Monday. The area was expected to rebound into the low 20s by the end of the week, National Weather Service meteorologist Tim Seeley said Tuesday.

The cold air returned to the northern Plains, where Hallock, Minnesota, had a temperature of 27 below zero early Wednesday, the weather service reported.

Residents of upstate New York were digging out from lake-effect squalls that dumped more than 5 feet of snow over a two-day period at the eastern end of Lake Ontario. The weather service reported 62 inches of snow at Oswego, 35 miles north of Syracuse.

Despite the snow, most schools in Oswego County were back in session Wednesday. Meteorologists said some areas in the New York lake-effect snow belt could collect more than 100 inches before the system breaks up, which isn't expected until at least the weekend.

In West Virginia, however, schools were closed or had delayed openings in parts of all 55 counties Wednesday. The state's snowfall ranged up to 7 inches at White Oak, the weather service said.

"It was the perfect storm," said Joe Stevens, spokesman for the West Virginia Ski Areas Association. "Over 4 feet of snow has fallen since the middle of January, which has really turned the situation around for the resorts that were experiencing ... above normal temperatures earlier in the season."

Tuesday brought the coldest readings across West Virginia since February 5, 1996, when several records were set or tied for February, the weather service said.

The mountain city of Elkins fell to 16 below zero Tuesday, tying the record for February 6, set in 1979, and the state capitol of Charleston had a record low of 1 below, the weather service said.

Elsewhere, Chicago city crews responded to more than 1,000 reports of frozen pipes Tuesday, said Department of Water Management spokesman Tom LaPorte. The cold also hampered firefighting efforts because emergency workers had to use propane torches to thaw frozen hydrants.

More than 140 flights were canceled at O'Hare International Airport, which reported average delays of 45 to 90 minutes for all arrivals and departures Tuesday night, city aviation department spokeswoman Wendy Abrams said.

"When the snow started falling it impacted visibility," Abrams said. "That combined with deicing delays have slowed our operations at both airports."

Minnesota police reported 290 crashes during rush-hour traffic Tuesday. New York state troopers closed a section of Interstate 81 east of Oswego for an hour to remove cars and trucks that went off the road when blowing snow reduced visibility to zero. Ferry services across the Hudson River in upstate New York were suspended because the river began freezing over.

The cold and slippery roads had contributed to at least two deaths in Illinois, two deaths in Kentucky, two in Michigan, two in Ohio, and one each in Wisconsin, Maryland and Indiana, authorities said.

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2007 21:32 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

There was some relief Wednesday in the Great Lakes region.

Well that was about fuckin' time.

OSWEGO, New York (AP) -- While the northern Plains and Northeast shiver in dangerously cold temperatures, the folks in upstate New York are keeping warm shoveling snow -- lots of snow.

Since Sunday, the small towns of Parish and Mexico have recorded more than 6 feet of snow, and forecasters with the National Weather Service say it isn't over yet.

Another 2 feet or more of heavy lake-effect snow was expected Thursday for the communities along eastern Lake Ontario, and more squalls are likely through the weekend

We're just trying to keep up. It's almost an unreal amount," said Mayor Randy Bateman of Oswego, where 70 inches of snow had fallen by Thursday morning. "We catch up when it stops, but then it just comes again, even heavier."

Five inches per hour
Whiteout conditions -- the snow has been falling at a rate of 5 inches an hour at times -- forced state police to temporarily close Interstate 81 between Central Square and Pulaski, a stretch of about 15 miles.

Travel advisories against unnecessary travel were posted for Oswego and its neighboring counties. Mexico officials renewed a snow emergency declaration, and many government offices were closed.

Schools were closed for a fourth day in Oswego and Mexico.

Bron CNN: Volledige Artikel --> http://edition.cnn.com/20(...)eather.ap/index.html
(ook leuk videootje van al die sneeuw , en wij klagen al bij 20 centimeter )

Het noorden van de Verenigde Staten heeft sinds meer dan een week last van bittere kou en verijsde wegen, waardoor al twintig mensen het leven hebben verloren. Maar de meest winterse aanblik toont ongetwijfeld Oswego County in de staat New York. Het district is bedekt onder een 2,5 meter dikke laag sneeuw

Donderdag viel in Oswego County zeven centimeter sneeuw per uur en er is meer sneeuw op komst. De gouverneur heeft de noodtoestand uitgeroepen en alle niet strikt noodzakelijke verkeer is verboden.

"Het was leuk toen het begon, want we hadden in december en januari helemaal geen sneeuw gehad", zei de burgemeester. (novum)





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PARISH, New York — With more than 8 feet of snow already coating the ground, it wasn't good news for this winter-weary region when the blue sky turned gray Saturday, signaling another intense snow squall was about to dump some more.

"This is bad," said 67-year-old Dave DeGrau, who has operated an auto repair shop on Main Street for 45 years. "We had a very easy winter until now. Last fall during hunting season it rained every time I went out. I kept saying 'I'm glad this isn't snow.' Now, it's snow."

Persistent bands of lake-effect snow squalls fed by moisture from Lake Ontario have been swinging up and down this part of central New York along the lake's eastern shore since last Sunday.

The National Weather Service said Parish — about 25 miles northeast of Syracuse — reached a milestone early Saturday with 100 inches of snow during the past seven days. Late Saturday, the total had risen to 110 inches. Unofficial reports pegged totals at 123 inches in Orwell and 122 in Redfield, but those measurements include snow from another storm a couple of days before the current weather system. All three towns are in Oswego County.

A warning in effect until Monday morning said 2 to 4 more feet of snow was possible with wind gusting up to 24 mph.

"That's all we need," Mike Avery said as he took a brief break from loading dump trucks with snow to be hauled to a pile outside town. "It's getting monotonous."

The fluffy new snow was a magnet for snowmobilers, but stopping was out of the question.

"You can't stop or you're done," said Dan Hojnacki, 23, of Syracuse, after he ground to a halt in a field. "I never got stuck until today, and I've been snowmobiling for 10 years."

Residents of the nearby town of Mexico see 5- to 6-foot snowfalls every two or three years, but this time even hardened locals are amazed. The only sign of parked SUVs are their radio antennas or roof racks sticking up above the snow. Front doors are buried and footprints lead to second-story windows. Sidewalks that have been dug out look like miniature canyons.

The state transportation department said 125 workers from elsewhere in the state had been sent in with snow equipment to help.

The region is located along the Tug Hill Plateau, the snowiest region this side of the Rocky Mountains. It's a 50-mile wedge of land that rises 2,100 feet from the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. It usually gets about 300 inches — roughly 25 feet — of snow a year.

The hamlet of Hooker, near the boundaries of Jefferson, Lewis, and Oswego counties, holds the state's one-year record with 466.9 inches, about 39 feet, in the winter of 1976-77.

Still, less than a month ago it seemed more like spring.
Gosh, three weeks ago there was green on the ground. We got spoiled," Parish Mayor Leon Heagle said. "This just came fast. This is not normal. God, we can't catch a break. I feel like getting right in the car and driving south, but I'd probably get in trouble."







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Toch lijkt me dit wel eens een keer wat voor ons landje... gewooon 1 meter...
Het hele land gaat plat... en we zeiken nooit weer bij 20 cm

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Op zondag 11 februari 2007 14:57 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Toch lijkt me dit wel eens een keer wat voor ons landje... gewooon 1 meter...
Het hele land gaat plat... en we zeiken nooit weer bij 20 cm

We zeiken tegenwoordig al over 2 cm

Ze zullen ten oosten van The Great Lakes wel erg blij zijn ja.

Vooral Lake Ontario was deze keer de boosdoener.

142 inch = 361cm. Sneeuwval met 13cm per uur.

Trouwens, ik was vorig jaar rond deze tijd in het Bayerische Wald. Daar was ook een "schneekatastrophe". Daar lag in sommige dorpen ook 2,5 meter sneeuw, met name rond de Großer Arber. Echt gaaf was dat.

Vorig jaar: Bodenmais, Bayerischer Wald, Zuidoost Duitsland:

REDFIELD, New York (AP) -- The lake-effect squalls that have buried parts of upstate New York in nearly 12 feet of snow finally ended Monday, leaving road crews with the task of clearing snow piled as high as street signs.

The squalls pushed along the shore of eastern Lake Ontario, leaving behind up to three inches of new snow before tapering off.

Forecasters warned that another storm system was on the way.

Redfield received 11 feet, 9 inches of snow, but residents were unfazed in a community where the economy thrives on snowmobilers and cross-country skiers. The area receives an annual average of more than 22 feet.

"It's not really anything we'll get excited about," Town Clerk Elaine Verdon said. "It's not an unusual amount. It's just unusual that it fell in such a short period of time."

The town of Parish received 10 feet, while nearly 9 feet fell in the communities of Mexico and Osceola.

A winter storm watch was posted in all of western and central New York for Tuesday night and Wednesday as a new storm approached from the Midwest.

Forecasters said it could bring 8 to 20 inches of snow to upstate New York.

"Unfortunately, they're not going to get much of a breather," said Tom Niziol, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Buffalo.

In Redfield, officials don't have to worry about snow removal.

"Out here, we'll just leave it in piles and wait for it to melt. It's not like a city where it would be in someone's way," Verdon said.

But for larger communities, clearing the snow is more of a challenge. State officials have given some highway departments permission to dump the snow in open water if necessary. Other towns haul it to a central location.

"There's just too much snow to leave in place. It makes it dangerous to walk and to drive," said Oswego Mayor Randy Bateman.

In Oswego, which received 85 inches, the city carts snow to a two-acre reservoir, where it's piled into one big mound. Last year, the pile did not entirely melt until July.

"With all the snow we've gotten, that snow mound might be there all summer into next winter," Bateman quipped.












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en dan nog even een zoekplaatje.. Zoek de auto

Wat ik nou niet begrijp he is dat de VS over de meeste geavanceerde technologie
van de wereld beschikt als we praten over kennis en militair materieel en toch staan
ze met regelmaat in hun hemd als het gaat om de meest simpele logistieke zaken.
Is het nou pure onwil of gewoon luiheid/gemak of simpelweg nonchalance?.
_{neem al hun electricteits-netwerk,in NL is alles onder de grond,in de VS boven
de grond met alle gevolgen van dien dus.}

Wat nou global warming

Ja, best veel sneeuw.

Geweldig zeg.

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Op dinsdag 13 februari 2007 13:51 schreef sanni het volgende:
Wat ik nou niet begrijp he is dat de VS over de meeste geavanceerde technologie
van de wereld beschikt als we praten over kennis en militair materieel en toch staan
ze met regelmaat in hun hemd als het gaat om de meest simpele logistieke zaken.
Is het nou pure onwil of gewoon luiheid/gemak of simpelweg nonchalance?.
_{neem al hun electricteits-netwerk,in NL is alles onder de grond,in de VS boven
de grond met alle gevolgen van dien dus.}

Ben je zelf wel eens aangenaam verrast door twee meter sneeuw in een paar dagen?

En bij nieuwbouw ligt alle bekabeling trouwens onder de grond, de oudere wijken hebben inderdaad nog kabels boven de grond.

Maar goed, ik begrijp dat je deze extreme situaties niet kent.
Praten over logistiek als de ene blizzard na de andere met -40C over je heen komt.

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Op dinsdag 13 februari 2007 17:33 schreef popolon het volgende:

Praten over logistiek als de ene blizzard na de andere met -40C over je heen komt.

Valt me idd nog mee dat de post het nog doet, en de winkels nog open zijn

In Nederland stopt dat al bij 50cm sneeuw.

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Op dinsdag 13 februari 2007 13:51 schreef sanni het volgende:
Wat ik nou niet begrijp he is dat de VS over de meeste geavanceerde technologie
van de wereld beschikt als we praten over kennis en militair materieel en toch staan
ze met regelmaat in hun hemd als het gaat om de meest simpele logistieke zaken.
Is het nou pure onwil of gewoon luiheid/gemak of simpelweg nonchalance?.
_{neem al hun electricteits-netwerk,in NL is alles onder de grond,in de VS boven
de grond met alle gevolgen van dien dus.}

3 meter sneeuw is niet met logistiek op te lossen hoor

breng 7 cm van die sneeuw hier heen en nederland heeft weer een weeralarm

Even rechtstreeks ooggetuigenverslag uit de VS (Columbus Ohio): het sneeuwt en ijzelt hier sinds gisteren; inmiddels ligt er zo'n 30 cm sneeuw. De universiteit was gisteren en vandaag gesloten en er vliegen vrijwel geen vliegtuigen meer. Op straat was iedereen bezig sneeuw te scheppen en auto's te ontdooien. Maar de sneeuw ligt nog niet zo hoog dat er geen auto's meer kunnen rijden, hoewel het wel erg rustig is op straat.
Hopelijk is alles de 23e weer enigszins normaal, want ik heb voor dan een weekendje New York geboekt

(Nu.NL) WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Zware sneeuwstormen hebben woensdag in het noordoosten van de Verenigde Staten chaos veroorzaakt. In de hoofdstad Washington moesten de twee belangrijkste luchthavens sluiten. Op de drie grote vliegvelden van New York werden honderden vluchten uit voorzorg geschrapt.

Talrijke scholen in het getroffen gebied gingen niet open. Automobilisten die zich op de ondergesneeuwde wegen waagden, bleven in lange files steken.


Valentijn

Vanwege de storm worden vele Valentijnskado's te laat of zelfs helemaal niet geleverd. "De mensen moeten begrijpen dat als wij nu de straat op gaan om de bestellingen af te leveren, we grote kans lopen deze barre weersomstandigheden niet te overleven."

Huppakee, weg Valentijn

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2007 01:51 schreef indahnesia.com het volgende:
Huppakee, weg Valentijn

Kijk, dat is dan niet zo erg.

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Op zondag 14 januari 2007 23:16 schreef popolon het volgende:
Van nu.nl:

Californie - Landbouwers vrezen gevolgen voor het citrusfruit. De oogst van sinaasappels, mandarijnen en citroenen vertegenwoordigt een waarde van bijna een miljard dollar.

oops, da's een pijnlijke tegenslag.

Als er zo'n laagje ijs op zit, werkt dat juist beschermend...

Als er in Nederland een late vorstperiode is, besproeien ze de bloesems van de fruitbomen, zodat zich er een laagje ijs op vormt... Op die manier blijft het beschermd tegen hevige vorst en koude wind. Maar ik weet niet of dat ook goed werkt op de vruchten...

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2007 01:59 schreef popolon het volgende:

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Kijk, dat is dan niet zo erg.

maar daar wordt de sneeuw niet minder op ook

OMG!

Kut voor hun maar het ziet er wel prachtig uit

damn, net bij RTL 4 Nieuws, horror-video vanuit een politieauto...hoe een vrachtwagen door de gladheid recht op de politiewagen inramt...

Es kijken of ik die ergens kan vinden

UPDATE: Jep, hier staat de link ---> Eerst linkje aanklikken in het artikel van CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/20(...)eather.ap/index.html

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NORTHFIELD, Ohio (AP) -- A killer snow and ice storm that hit the Midwest and Northeast left behind huge snow piles, frigid temperatures, and highway logjams Thursday.

The storm was blamed for at least 14 deaths.

In Pennsylvania, National Guard vehicles loaded with food, water, baby supplies and fuel delivered help to hundreds of motorists stranded on Interstate 78 Wednesday night and Thursday morning while crews try clear up a 50-mile backup on the icy, hilly highway.

The Guard began helping the motorists at about 9 p.m. Wednesday and was still at more than 12 hours later, said Lt. Col. Chris Cleaver, a Guard spokesman.

Utilities reported more than 90,000 homes and businesses without electricity early Thursday in Ohio, Maryland, northern Virginia, the District of Columbia and Delaware because of high wind and iced-up power lines.

The storm hit Wednesday, leaving up to 12 inches of snow across Pennsylvania, 15 inches in Cleveland, 19 inches in western Massachusetts and 42 inches in the southern Adirondacks in New York. Three feet of snow fell on parts of Vermont, good news for the state's beleaguered ski industry. Nearly 2 feet fell on parts of New Hampshire

In parts of the Northeast, the snow was followed by up to several inches of ice, leaving motorists with a slippery commute Thursday morning. That is, if they could free their ice-entombed cars. And with gusty wind, some areas had morning wind chills below zero.

"You can't even shovel it," said Wes Velker, an electrician who had to dig out from a foot of snow so he could go to work fixing busted water pipes and furnaces in Toledo, Ohio. "You have to take it off in layers."

In Vermont, 25.7 inches fell Wednesday at Burlington International Airport, the second-highest snowfall ever. That led the founder of Burton Snowboards in Burlington to give employees the day off Thursday.

"Nothing makes me happier than giving the people who work here the opportunity to experience the essence of a sport that they are making accessible and fun for so many others," Jake Burton said.

Many school districts, including many across upstate New York, that had canceled classes Wednesday extended the unplanned vacation by an extra day









NEW YORK — JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) tried to calm a maelstrom of criticism Thursday, after passengers were left waiting on planes at a New York airport for as long as nine hours during a snow and ice storm.

The airline said 10 incoming and outbound flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport were "significantly delayed" with customers on board during Wednesday's storm. Reasons included congestion, frozen equipment and an effort to keep planes ready to go in case the weather broke, said JetBlue spokesman Bryan Baldwin.

Calling the delays "unacceptable," the airline planned to offer the affected passengers refunds and free flights.

Die eerste foto

Alsof je kijkt vanuit een heli op de grote sneeuwvlakte, maar dan is het een motorkap

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2007 18:39 schreef -skippybal- het volgende:
Die eerste foto

Filmpje bekeken?

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42 inches in the southern Adirondacks in New York.

Ligt daar nu dan 176 inch? (=447cm )

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2007 18:40 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Filmpje bekeken?

Ja zag het vanochtend al op het NOS journaal. Die met die Fed Ex truck met dubbele aanhanger die met bizar hoge snelheid slippend aan komt glijden toch?

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2007 18:41 schreef highway101 het volgende:

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Ligt daar nu dan 176 inch? (=447cm )

jep..in sommige delen is daar zoveel gevallen
en het einde is nog niet in zicht

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2007 18:42 schreef -skippybal- het volgende:

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Ja zag het vanochtend al op het NOS journaal. Die met die Fed Ex truck met dubbele aanhanger die met bizar hoge snelheid slippend aan komt glijden toch?

jezus wat een klap zeg!

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Op donderdag 15 februari 2007 18:43 schreef Frutsel het volgende:


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jezus wat een klap zeg!

Hoe die ook die andere auto gewoon helemaal meeneemt. Echt scary als je daarin zit en je op een stilstaande patrolcar aan het glijden bent

In Redfield zou nu minstens 415cm liggen. Misschien in andere plaatsen nog meer.

ik wilde deze prachtige foto toch nog even hier laten zien...



After a late-winter snow and ice storm, the clouds over the Northeast United States cleared on February 19, 2007, affording the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite this stunning view of the brown and white landscape. Snow stretches from Maine to Virginia, highlighting the curving folds of the Appalachian Mountains, branch-like rivers and streams, and the solid white smoothness of frozen lakes. Beautiful though the snow is, it trapped hundreds of motorists in eastern Pennsylvania, shut down some air and train travel, closed businesses and schools, triggered power outages, and caused 15 deaths, reported CNN on February 15.

Mooi! Iemand nog recente sneeuwhoogtes van die dorpen in upstate New York?

't Dooit sinds een paar dagen in de Great Lakes regionen.

Huge Winter Storm heads East

DETROIT Feb 25, 2007 (AP)— A huge winter storm barreled toward the East Coast on Sunday after dumping more than a foot of snow on the Upper Midwest, causing seven traffic deaths in Wisconsin and closing major highways in the Plains.

Parts of Wisconsin could get 18 to 24 inches of snow before the storm passes, said Tom Zajdel, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wis.

The storm knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers, mostly in Iowa, where freezing rain coated trees and power lines. Outages were also reported in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Ohio.

"The snow is so wet it's sticking to power poles and power lines," said Bill Taylor of the National Weather Service office in North Platte, Neb.

Snow, sleet and freezing rain caused hundreds of flights to be canceled or delayed Saturday in Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee, while whiteouts occurred in Colorado and Kansas.

Interstate 70, a major cross-country route, was closed for about 400 miles in both directions from just east of Denver to Salina, Kan., because of blowing snow and slippery pavement.

Between Denver and the beginning of the highway closure, about 35 cars collided in a pileup on an icy section of I-70. No major injuries were reported.

The weather service reported wind gusts of 68 mph in the Denver area. In Kansas, winds whipped about 3 inches of snowfall into 7-foot drifts.

A number of other highways also were closed in Wyoming and Nebraska. But many roads reopened later Saturday, including most of Interstate 80 in Nebraska. More than 270 miles there had been closed.

The National Weather Service posted blizzard and winter storm warnings for parts of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Between 15 inches to 18 inches of snow had fallen between Winona, Minn., and La Crosse, Wis., by Saturday evening, according to the weather service.

As conditions worsened in Winona County, deputies turned to four-wheel drive vehicles. The blinding snow caused around 50 cars to spin out or go into the ditch, authorities said. (ABCNews 25-2-07)
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Beetje voorbarig Popolon? Er komt nog meer

No shit.

Ik zag het gras weer op sommige plekken, valt er weer 20 cm.

Weer een halve meter de laatste paar dagen.

Het sneeuwschuiven wordt lastig nu het dooit overdag (zware sneeuw)

Nu weet ik weer waarom ik de lente zo leuk vindt. Als je echt vier 'seizoenen' hebt dan weet je de andere drie ook te waarderen.

Net op de oprit sneeuwvrij gemaakt, duurde wel een uurtje met de stoep erbij:



Let wel, eergisteren was alle sneeuw bijna weg.

Sorry dat ik geen schokkende foto's heb.

Asian Pollution has effect on Winter Storms in US?

Air pollution blowing over the western US from Asia has been a growing environmental concern for several years. Now, it seems, it's giving winter storms added punch as well.

Tiny aerosols and soot from burning wood and coal in winter, especially in China, appear to be seeding clouds in large winter storms that churn thousands of miles east across the northern Pacific, says a team of US scientists. The pollution is turning relatively routine marine rain clouds into towering thunderheads, much like those seen above land.

Previous studies have shown that during the last half of the 20th century, northern Pacific winter storms have become steadily more frequent and stronger, based on tracking wind speeds and atmospheric pressure. The latest results, published last week, indicate that ill winds blowing out of Asia are adding muscle to the types of clouds these stronger winter cyclones carry.

The team posits that the shift toward these types of clouds, with their strong updrafts, could be altering global circulation patterns – perhaps even masking the effects of global warming, because the thicker, taller clouds reflect more sunlight back into space. And they could be contributing to more rapid melting of snow and ice in the Arctic as dark soot is lofted by strong updrafts in these clouds and carried north to fall back to the surface.

Others have noted this effect of smoke and soot on individual thunderstorms in the Amazon. But this is the first time researchers have seen the effect on storm systems hundreds of miles across.

"As you change things in the atmosphere, whether it's particulates or climate change, all of the effects are not obvious" immediately, says Renyi Zhang, an atmospheric scientist at Texas A&M University in College Station, who led the study.

A poor grasp on aerosols' effects

The team has long been interested in the effects soot and tiny particles called aerosols have on climate. The latest report on global-warming science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released last month, shows that researchers have a poor grasp on these effects. Of all the agents affecting climate – sunlight, greenhouse gases, mineral dust blowing around, for example – the "indirect" effect aerosols have on climate through seeding clouds remains the largest source of uncertainty the report lists

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- This has been the world's warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the U.S. government agency that tracks weather reported Thursday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the combined global land and ocean surface temperature from December through February was at its highest since records began in 1880.

A record-warm January was responsible for pushing up the combined winter temperature, according to the agency's Web site.

"Contributing factors were the long-term trend toward warmer temperatures, as well as a moderate El Nino in the Pacific," Jay Lawrimore of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center said in a telephone interview from Asheville, North Carolina.

The next-warmest winter on record was in 2004, and the third warmest winter was in 1998, Lawrimore said.

The 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1995.

"We don't say this winter is evidence of the influence of greenhouse gases," Lawrimore said.

However, he noted that his center's work is part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change process, which released a report on global warming last month that found climate change is occurring and that human activities quite likely play a role in the change.

"So we know as a part of that, the conclusions have been reached and the warming trend is due in part to rises in greenhouse gas emissions," Lawrimore said. "By looking at long-term trends and long-term changes, we are able to better understand natural and anthropogenic [human-caused] climate change."

The combined temperature for the December-February period was 1.3 degrees F (0.72 degree C) above the 20th century mean, the agency said.

Lawrimore did not give an absolute temperature for the three-month period, and said the deviation from the mean was what was important. He did not provide the 20th century mean temperature.

Temperatures were above average for these months in Europe, Asia, western Africa, southeastern Brazil and the northeast half of the United States, with cooler-than-average conditions in parts of Saudi Arabia and the central United States.

Global temperature on land surface during the Northern Hemisphere winter was also the warmest on record, while the ocean-surface temperature tied for second warmest after the winter of 1997-98.

Over the past century, global surface temperatures have increased by about 0.11 degree F per decade, but the rate of increase has been three times larger since 1976 -- around 0.32 degree F per decade, with some of the biggest temperature rises in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Wel grappig... ondanks de vele sneeuw en kou is het toch de warmste winter ooit?

NEW YORK (ANP) - Hevige sneeuwstormen die in het noordoosten van de Verenigde Staten worden verwacht hebben vrijdag geleid tot de annulering van ruim duizend vluchten. Luchtvaartmaatschappijen hebben deels uit voorzorg gehandeld, om te voorkomen dat duizenden passagiers op luchthavens stranden.

In de staat New York zullen tientallen centimeters sneeuw vallen. Vooral de internationale luchthaven John F. Kennedy in de stad New York en de vliegvelden LaGuardia in de Newyorkse wijk Queens en Newark in New Jersey zullen grote hinder ondervinden van het noodweer.

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- JetBlue canceled all its New York flights Friday.

The discount airline led a list of carriers canceling flights to and from the East Coast because of harsh winter weather.

Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and Northwest Airlines also canceled flights

The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for an area covering northern New Jersey and most of Pennsylvania, New York and the New England states.

A heavy snow warning was in effect for central New York state.

CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said morning rain was likely to turn to snow from New York City to Boston, and then to sleet, which was expected to fall all night Friday.

He said the nor'easter was expected to dump from 12 to 24 inches of snow north and west of New York City.

CNN's Alina Cho reported that some passengers were stranded at New York's LaGuardia Airport, but plenty of flights were leaving on time and at least one flight took off a few minutes early.

By early afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration Web site showed delays averaging three hours for flights bound for Newark and two hours for those bound for Philadelphia. (Watch why airlines had to cancel flights even before weather got bad )

JetBlue canceled 215 flights Friday morning and 15 on Thursday evening, according to a spokesman. Most of those flights were to or from the three New York-area airports -- John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark's Liberty Airport.

"This time around, we've strategically canceled flights so we have pilots and crews in place to restart operations when the storm passes," said company spokesman Sebastian White.

The decision came after storms in mid-February stranded thousands of passengers at airports and in planes on the tarmac waiting to move. The problems caused by that storm cost JetBlue $30 million. (Full story)

Delta spokeswoman Katie Connell said the airline canceled more than 100 flights between Thursday evening and Saturday morning throughout the Northeast -- primarily in the New York City area -- in anticipation of bad weather.

The airline is waiving all cancellation fees and penalties, and is updating its passengers via its Web site, text messages and e-mails on cancellations and delays

Nog een laatkomertje dus.

Volgens teletext een voorzorgsmaatregel, nadat vorige storm geleid had tot grote vertragingen.