2025年1月20日 · Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter...

2023年11月30日 · U.S. winter (Dec-Feb) precipitation compared to the 1981-2010 average for the past 7 strong El Niño events. Details differ, but most show wetter-than-average conditions across some part of the South. NOAA Climate.gov image, based on …

2024年11月18日 · NCEP monitoring of ongoing or imminent (up to six hours in the future) Hazardous Winter Weather can be found at SPC Mesoscale Discussion Link. The following charts depict the probability of freezing rain reaching or exceeding the specified amount. All viewing options are available through the links below.

2024年10月15日 · La Niña is a natural climate pattern that influences global weather marked by cooler than average ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. The effects on weather are most pronounced during...

2024年11月22日 · Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming have the highest chance of above-average rain or snow, but Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and parts of Iowa, Kentucky ...

Winter storms can bring snow, sleet, and freezing rain across the entire United States and its territories. Even Hawaii gets snow in its Big Island, and major cities as far south as Atlanta and Dallas have been paralyzed by snow and ice.

2016年2月13日 · As the climate warms, more rain than snow in winter will become the new reality. Adapting to some impacts will be near impossible. More rain and rising temperatures could cut ski seasons in...

Winter Precipitation Types and their Environments. The vertical distribution of temperature will often determine the type of precipitation (rain vs. snow vs. sleet vs. freezing rain) that occurs at the surface during the wintertime. More often than not, the temperature does not decrease with height but increases, many times by several degrees ...

Winter weather is certainly not a stranger to the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles from late fall through early spring. More often than not, the main precipitation type that is observed is snow. However, sleet and occasionally freezing rain also affect the Panhandles. What causes these different types of precipitation?

2024年12月5日 · Freezing rain is the most dreaded and dangerous winter precipitation type. For freezing rain, there must be a large layer of above-freezing air high up in the atmosphere, but the air at the surface is 32 degrees or below. Falling as rain, the water then freezes on all surfaces near the ground, including roads, trees and power lines.