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Couple Rescued after Being Trapped in 12 Feet of Snow for 20 Hours
Couple Rescued after Being Trapped in 12 Feet of Snow for 20 Hours
Jan 17, 2024
After 20 hours buried under 12 feet of snow, a New Mexico couple has been rescued. The incredible story started when they were out delivering newspapers near the city of Clovis on Saturday night and were blown off the road into a ditch by the powerful winds of . Soon they were beneath several feet of snow drift. Jimmy and Betty Anderson used their cell phones to call for help. Jimmy Anderson , where he works, that he talked regularly...
Heavy Snow and Ice Cause Texas Tech Athletic Center Roof to Collapse
Heavy Snow and Ice Cause Texas Tech Athletic Center Roof to Collapse
Jan 17, 2024
Texas Tech's Athletic Training Center has been wrecked by Winter Storm Goliath. 'The Bubble,' as Texas Tech's Athletic Training Center is aptly named, has popped. (Texas Tech Athletics) The university reported on Friday that days of accumulating snow and ice weighed down the air-inflated roof of the building also known as "The Bubble," eventually . Lubbock, Texas, was one of many cities in the state to accumulate upwards of a foot of snow earlier in the week as . (WATCH:...
Winter Storm Goliath: Historic Southern Plains Blizzard Within Huge Swath of Snow, Ice (RECAP)
Winter Storm Goliath: Historic Southern Plains Blizzard Within Huge Swath of Snow, Ice (RECAP)
Jan 17, 2024
Winter Storm Goliath lived up to its name, bringing a huge swath of snow and ice from the West through a large part of the Plains, Midwest and Northeast from Dec. 24 through Dec. 29, 2015. Within that zone, a historic blizzard buried the southern Plains in heavy snow whipped by wind gusts as high as 80 mph. (MORE: ) Goliath brought two distinct rounds of wintry precipitation. The first affected parts of the West and a strip of the...
Winter Outlook Update: January Cold Snap in East Possible, But El Niño Influence Remains in February and March
Winter Outlook Update: January Cold Snap in East Possible, But El Niño Influence Remains in February and March
Jan 17, 2024
WSI, a division of The Weather Company, issued their January through March 2016 outlook update, and both forecast temperatures and precipitation have the fingerprints of the current strong El Niño, the strongest in 18 years, all over them. The forecast includes the potential for a Stronger El Niños typically exhibit their peak influence on North America's weather pattern during the core winter months. Keep in mind, however, there are several other factors in the atmosphere, operating on shorter time scales,...
How a Hamburg, New York, Car Became a Popsicle
How a Hamburg, New York, Car Became a Popsicle
Jan 17, 2024
On the northeastern shore of Lake Erie sits a restaurant and a parking lot that has become a temporary resting place for cars that have been frozen to the ground during winter storms. It happened again on Sunday, when a group of friends gathered to watch the NFL postseason games at Hoak's Lakeshore Restaurant in Hamburg, New York. Bartender C.J. McDonnell told weather.com that one of the friends, a young man, was shocked to go outside and see his vehicle...
Lake-Effect Snow Drops up to 39 Inches in New York
Lake-Effect Snow Drops up to 39 Inches in New York
Jan 17, 2024
The second of two rounds of lake-effect snow this week began to wind down across the eastern Great Lakes Thursday evening. This latest round of lake-effect snow in the eastern Great Lakes has dumped up to 39 inches east of Lake Ontario at Lorraine, New York, from Tuesday through Thursday. To the southeast of Lake Erie, Perrysburg, New York, picked up the most snow with 25.5 inches during the same time frame. One of the lake-effect bands took aim at...
Lake-Effect Snow Pounds Great Lakes
Lake-Effect Snow Pounds Great Lakes
Jan 17, 2024
Heavy lake-effect snow targeted the Great Lakes snowbelts Jan. 16-19, 2016. Up to 19 inches of snow was measured to the east of Lake Ontario in Redfield, New York, in this latest round of lake effect. A narrow band of lake-effect snow produced snowfall rates of 3 to 5 inches per hour east of Lake Ontario on Jan. 18, according to the National Weather Service. Fulton, New York, reported 9 inches of snow in three and a half hours on...
Heavy Snow Falls on Europe, Crippling Travel (PHOTOS)
Heavy Snow Falls on Europe, Crippling Travel (PHOTOS)
Jan 17, 2024
A car drives up a hill on an icy road near Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) Roads were closed, travel was crippled and many Eastern Europeans lost power as an intense snowstorm moved across the continent over the weekend. The winter storm hit parts of Romania, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Poland on Sunday, and Croatia's Adriatic coast suffered through frigid temperatures and strong winds. At least 12 major roads and three Black Sea ports...
Major Winter Storm Increasingly Likely in East, Including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York and Boston
Major Winter Storm Increasingly Likely in East, Including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York and Boston
Jan 17, 2024
The East Coast storm we are watching late this week has been named Winter Storm Jonas. For the latest details on Jonas, . MORE ON WEATHER.COM: Winter Storm Hera (PHOTOS) The photo above shows snow blanketing Green Valley, Illinois. ...
Winter Storm Jonas: Five Things You Need to Know
Winter Storm Jonas: Five Things You Need to Know
Jan 17, 2024
Newly named is increasingly likely to affect a swath of the East beginning later this week. Here are five things you need to know about the storm. 1. Computer forecast models agree: There will be a storm. A comparison of model forecasts from Monday's runs of the American, European and Canadian weather forecast models. As shown here, they all depict a strong low pressure system expected to be near the U.S. East Coast on Saturday evening, Jan. 23, 2016. While...
Stop Sharing Crazy, Overblown Snow Forecasts on Facebook and Twitter
Stop Sharing Crazy, Overblown Snow Forecasts on Facebook and Twitter
Jan 17, 2024
Isn't it ironic that the area always getting crushed by unreasonable snow total is always the city where the image is going viral? If you're a weather enthusiast or a user of social media, your list of New Year's resolutions could use one more addition. When you see a wild, overblown winter weather forecast on Facebook or Twitter, and the source looks sketchy, don't just blindly share it. It leads to the spread of misinformation, and, in a worst-case scenario,...
Winter Storm Jonas Likely to Be Major Snowstorm Across Parts of Mid-Atlantic, Northeast
Winter Storm Jonas Likely to Be Major Snowstorm Across Parts of Mid-Atlantic, Northeast
Jan 17, 2024
This a previous version of our forecast for Winter Storm Jonas, . MORE ON WEATHER.COM: Winter Storm Hera (PHOTOS) The photo above shows snow blanketing Green Valley, Illinois. ...
Midweek Snow, Ice Will Impact Parts of Plains, Midwest and South
Midweek Snow, Ice Will Impact Parts of Plains, Midwest and South
Jan 17, 2024
This storm has been named Winter Storm Ilias. For the latest forecast details, MORE ON WEATHER.COM: Winter Storm Goliath (PHOTOS) ...
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