Articles related to "Winter Storms"
Blizzard!
While the media rush to call any severe or heavy snowstorm a blizzard, true blizzards have a strict definition according to meteorologists, and snow need not even fall in a blizzard. Blizzards take on different characteristics when they rage around North America, combining wind and temperature and snow into a variety of recipes, though they all start as low pressure systems.
weather
• meteorology
• blizzard
• winter storms
• winter
Gulf of Alaska Storms
Storms move out of the Gulf of Alaska into the Pacific Northwest with great regularity, as many as three or four per week during the height of the winter storm season. Winter Gulf of Alaska storms typically sport winds in excess of 80 km/h (50 mph) with corresponding high waves. Some storms rival the strength of the great hurricanes/typhoons and would be considered as such if their origins were tropical rather than polar.
weather
• meteorology
• winter storms
• gulf of alaska
• aleutian low
Great Lakes Snowstorms
During the cold season in the Great Lakes Basin, cold-front passage is often followed by a 24-36-hour period of blustery winds, falling temperatures and lake-effect snows. Such lake-effect snowstorms are of major economic significance in the Great Lakes Basin as snowfall accumulates to as much as 75 cm (30 inches) per day.
weather
• meteorology
• great lakes
• great lake storms
• snow storms