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» silvan - Hi Keith!
I enjoyed reading this article. We had some blizzard-like conditions last night. Fortunately they didn't last long enough to drop more than a few centimetres of snow.I have added a link to Science of the Sky in the Ecology topic, which I have recently adopted.
My Living With Nature articles have started including more photography, which you might be interested to see.
-- posted by silvan
» weather_doctor - Re: Hi Keith!
In response to message posted by silvan:Thanks Silvan,
Yes, have seen your lake-effect snows on The Weather Network. Makes me miss the excitement of weather back east. We just have threats of snow at sea-level here on the south Island but have had some real downpours of late.
-- posted by weather_doctor
» biogardener - Southern storms
I live in Winnipeg, and I have noticed that the area withing 500 miles south of us, i.e. up to Minneapolis, gets more and worse storms than we do, or at least that is how it looks to me from the media reports. Can you explain that?-- posted by biogardener
» weather_doctor - Re: Southern storms
In response to message posted by biogardener:The main reason is a closeness to a big moisture source. Minnesota is closer to the Gulf of Mexico, the main source of eastern North America moisture. The wind currents high in the atmosphere that bring it northward into Minnesota don't often make it into the Canadian midlands Rockiess to Manitoba).
Most of Winnipeg's winter moisture comes from us here British Columbia (the Pacific Ocean), and we take most of that ourselves. Alberta Clippers can be strong storms but often don't have the moisture support that Colorado Lows do, and are thus drier storms,by comparison.
Unfortunately, the wind currents do not prevent the arctic cold from penetrating into Manitoba, in fact, the region provides a major highway connecting the Arctic and eastern North America. It is this cold air that wrings the moisture out over the Great Lakes and eastern areas as snow.
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