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Ukko's Snow Ushers in Spring in Northern New England

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Weather.com-3/20/13, Associated Press

 

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BOSTON -- New Englanders were preparing for another messy day of snow as they welcomed spring's unseasonable arrival.

Forecasts called for as much as 16 inches of snow in parts of northern New England through Wednesday morning, bringing slippery road conditions. Snow was expected to taper off in other locations.

"Ukko has delivered a foot or more of snow to parts of five states in the Northeast including New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine," said weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce. "Boston's storm total of 7.2 inches pushed their seasonal total over the 60-inch mark (63.1 inches)."

 

Ontario continues to battle winter weather

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The Weather Network.com 3/19/13, Staff Writers

 

 

A low pressure system pushed into the province on Monday, bringing a wintery mix to much of southern Ontario. 

 

Some lingering flurries and breezy conditions are likely across the GTA through Wednesday, but the bulk of the system has continued to push east.

 

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Hail, Tornadoes, Damaging Winds Hammer the Southeast

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Weather.com - 3/19/13

 

 

Winter Storm Ukko's severe side brought severe weather into the southern states, including intense thunderstorms that produced huge hailstones throughout the southern United States.  

 

In all, there were 264 reports of severe weather Monday and Monday night across seven states from southeast Arkansas and northeast Louisiana to South Carolina.  For the entire month of March prior to Monday, there had been a total of 165 severe reports, including just a single tornado. 

Autumn soaking for Victoria and Tasmania

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Weather Zone.com - 3/17/13, Drew Casper Richardson

 

 

A cold front and trough have brought the heaviest March rain in 12 years to parts of Victoria with Tasmania also getting a good soak. 
On Saturday night a trough and cold front swept through Victoria and Tasmania bringing widespread showers and the odd storm. Showers continued through Sunday morning in the wake in the front in brisk southerly winds.

 

Victoria's Central district had some of the highest totals, including some suburbs of Melbourne. Epping picked up 37mm making it their highest March fall in 12 years. Essendon had their highest fall since May with 31mm reaching the gauge. Melbourne city itself dodged the heaviest rain but still recorded 15mm. Although not has heavy as other areas it was the heaviest fall so far this month. The city has now recorded 16mm for March, making it the driest start to Autumn in five years. Further north, parts of Kinglake had 46mm.

 

Big Story Weather

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Red Orbit.com - 3/15/13, Joshua Kelly

 

 

Big Story Weather from March 14: A few snow showers remained over the Eastern Great Lakes, otherwise a good portion of the country saw high pressure and nice weather. The cold air did settle in over the Southeast as there were many late season frost and freeze advisories and warnings issued last night for this area.

 

 

Brocken Spectre

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Weather Online.co.uk - 3/14/13

 

 

The Brocken spectre (or Brocken bow) is an apparently greatly magnified shadow of an observer cast against mist or cloud below the level of a summit or ridge and surrounded by rainbow coloured fringes resulting from the diffraction of light. The effect is an illusion. Depth perception is altered by the mist, causing the shadow to appear more distant and to be interpreted as larger than normally expected.

 

Cyclone threatening Lord Howe Island

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Weather Zone.com - 3/14/13, Brett Dutschke

 

 

Sandra first formed late last week over the Coral Sea, about 1000km northeast of Mackay. She then intensified into a severe category three system while travelling east, further away from mainland Australia. Early this week she turned more southerly, towards Lord Howe Island but had weakened into a category one cyclone.

 

During this morning Sandra intensified and is likely to continue to do so during the day while closing in on Lord Howe Island. At this stage the cyclone should travel just to the east of Lord Howe while staying well to the west of Norfolk Island. By tomorrow morning the system should weaken just to the south and by tomorrow evening should weaken into a tropical depression on its way to New Zealand.

 

Snow: hundreds stranded with more travel chaos to come

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Telegraph.co.uk - 3/13/13, Haley Dixon

 

 

The Highways Agency said it had been working throughout the night with emergency services and local authorities to respond to "hundreds of incidents" which took place in heavy snow and strong winds on its network of roads in Kent and Sussex.

 

50mph winds created snow drifts of up to a metre in height, in many cases blowing snow back on to the carriageway as soon as it had been cleared, they added.

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Relief for Melbourne at last

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Weatherzone.com, 3/13/13- Melissa Mackellar

 

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Melbourne's run of record breaking heat has come to end but not before having its hottest March night on record.

On Tuesday Melbourne smashed the record for the longest run of consecutive days above 32 degrees, the ninth day in a row of at least 32-degree heat. This beat the previous record of eight days set in February 1961.

 

For more information on this story please go to Weatherzone.com

Tropical Cyclone Sandra Roiling Australia Beaches

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Accuweather.com - 3/13/13

Tropical Cyclone Sandra was centered at sea, west of New Caledonia, at the time of this satellite image. The southern Queensland coast is seen at the lower left. (NRLMRY image)

Tropical Cyclone Sandra weakened significantly on Tuesday, markedly lowering the threat of damaging weather to nearby New Caledonia.

At the same time, high swells radiating outward from the storm were bringing rough surf and rip currents, a phenomenon that was expected to persist through at least Thursday, to some beaches on faraway Australia's east coast.

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