Yet another Northeast US winter storm
The third major storm of the 2010/2011 winter season (storm #1 | storm #2) impacted much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states on 26 January 2011 – 27 January 2011. An AWIPS image of Read More
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The “warming effects” of the Arctic Ocean
The North Slope region of far northern Alaska had been abnormally cold for a number of days in late January 2011: for example, Barrow had minimum temperatures of -43ºF / -42ºC and -45ºF / -43ºC on 23 January and 24 January, respectively (the normal low temperature on those days is... Read More
The first -40ºF temperatures of the winter season in the Lower 48 states
A major surge of arctic air from Canada helped to produce the first surface air temperatures of -40º F (-40º C) or colder over the Lower 48 states during the Winter of 2010/2011 — the coldest official minimum temperature was -46º F (-43º C) at International Falls, Minnesota on the... Read More
Cold temperatures in the Yukon Territory of Canada
The surface air temperature at Watson Lake in the southern Yukon Territory of Canada (station identifier CYQH) fell to -56º F (-49º C) at 16 UTC on 14 January 2011. About 2 hours later, a comparison of AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-11 10.7 µm IR and 1-km resolution
