A freezing drizzle / light freezing rain event occurred across parts of the Upper Midwest on 03 January – 04 January 2009 — an ice accrual of 0.1 to 0.2 inch was reported at... Read More

Very cold air was becoming established across the interior of Alaska during the last few days of December 2008. AWIPS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-11 10.7 µm IR channel (above) showed large areas exhibiting very cold IR brightness temperatures (colder than -40º C, darker blue color enhancement) which were... Read More

Unusually cold temperatures were experienced across much of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region during  the month of December 2008 — as of 21 December, monthly temperatures were 6.4º F below normal at Milwaukee WI (their low that morning was -5º F), 7.2º F below normal at Chicago IL... Read More

A significant snowfall event occurred over the Desert Southwest region of the US on 17 December 2008 — as much as 30.0 inches of snow was reported at Wrightwood in the mountains of southern California (just northeast of Los Angeles), and Las... Read More