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Lake Effect Snow Totals and Historical Perspective

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Wunderground.com - 1/22/12, Christopher C. Burt


The typical Great Lakes snow belts.

An epic lake effect snow event started Monday around the Great Lakes. Some incredible snowfall totals have already been racked up.

• Erie, Pa., officially picked up 16.3 inches of snow at the airport Monday alone, making it the snowiest January calendar day on record, and the snowiest day in any month for Erie since Nov. 29, 1979! Snowfall records there began in 1893.

• Other parts of the city of Erie received as much as 24 inches of snow Monday.

• Up to 18 inches of snow fell Sunday through Monday morning in Oswego County, N.Y., north of Syracuse.

• Another 19 inches fell in Pulaski, N.Y., during the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

• In western New York, Ripley had a two-day total of 24.8 inches as of Tuesday morning with snow still falling.

• A few places in northern Lower Michigan saw 10 inches of snow in the 48-hour period ending Tuesday morning.

To read the rest of this story, visit Wunderground.com.

Major cold blast, epic lake effect snows hit North America

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Wunderground.com - Dr. Jeff Masters, 1/22/13

A classic January North American cold wave has plunged much of the continent into the deep freeze and brought epic lake effect snows to the shores of the Great Lakes. The intense cold was centered over central Ontario this Tuesday morning, where a remarkable low temperature of -49°F (-45.0°C) was observed at Lansdowne House, Ontario. This was the coldest temperature measured at a major observing station in all of North America today. In the U.S., below-zero temperatures were recorded Tuesday morning in eleven states east of the Rockies.

 

Facing a meltdown: Snow chaos set to give way to flooding and torrential rain

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Mirror - 1/23/13, Martin Fricker

Weather forecasters warned that a new wave of chaos caused by heavy rain and melting snow will put many areas at risk this weekend

Arctic monkey: Chilly chimp wraps up in WalesArctic monkey: Chilly chimp wraps up in Wales. Wales News Service

The big freeze is due to end within the next few days.. to be replaced by the threat of widespread flooding.

As blizzards hit parts of the south last night, forecasters warned that a new wave of chaos caused by heavy rain and melting snow will put many areas at risk this weekend.

Tropical low turns into cyclone Peta

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The West Australian - 1/23/13, Alex Massey and Phoebe Wearne

Update, 6.40pm: A tropical low which dumped 90mm of rain on Port Hedland overnight has turned into tropical cyclone Peta just off the Pilbara coast.

The cyclone has weakened after crossing the coast and the all clear has been given for people in the Pilbara.

To read the rest of this story, visit The West Australian.

Northern Queensland cops a drenching

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WeatherZone.com - 1/23/13

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A flooded section of the Bruce Highway near Tully in far north Queensland. - ABC
 

Flooding has cut roads and forced the closure of the train line between Townsville and Cairns after torrential rain across north Queensland.

Hundreds of millimetres of rain has fallen as a result of ex-tropical cyclone Oswald and central Queensland communities are now preparing for flooding as the system moves south.

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How Widespread was the Australian Heatwave?

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Source: NASA - 1/23/13

How Widespread was the Australian Heatwave?

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January 2013 brought record-setting heat to Australia; not just for days, but for weeks. Temperatures regularly eclipsed 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) in multiple locations across the continent. According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australia set a new record for the highest temperature averaged across the entire nation: 40.33°C (104.59°F) on January 7. The national average reached 40.11°C (104.20°F) the following day. The overnight minimum temperature for January 7–8 also set new a record—32.36°C (90.25°F)—contributing to the hottest two-day period in Australia’s recorded history.

Coldest Air of the Season

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Weather.com - 1/23/13, Nick Wiltgen

Bitter Cold Has Arrived!

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The coldest air of the season is now completing its takeover of the Midwest and Northeast.
The southern edge of the cold snap will start to retreat a bit on Wednesday.

To watch the video and read the rest of this story, visit Weather.com.

Girl dies in 87-car pile-up in Ohio; icy roads elsewhere cause 50-car crash

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NBC News - 1/22/13, By Isolde Raftery, Staff Writer, NBC News

Ohio authorities respond to an 87-car crash on Interstate 275 on the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio on Sunday. Icy road conditions in Ohio resulted in other major car pile-ups in the area. Joe Wessels / Reuters

A 12-year-old girl was killed in an 87-car pile-up on an Ohio highway on Sunday after a burst of snow hit the area. The accident shut down the highway, I-275 near Cincinnati, for seven hours, WCPO.com reported.

The icy roads, brought on so immediately, were likely to blame, sending 60 cars and 16 tractor-trailers spinning and slamming into each other on the highway just after 11:35 a.m. on Sunday, Reuters reported.

Space Weather Update ~ Quiet Sun

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QUIET SUN: With the departure of sunspot AR1654, a new spell of low solar activity is underway. NOAA forecasters put the odds of a strong solar flare today at less than 5%. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.

LUNAR ECLIPSE OF JUPITER: Last night, the Moon passed by Jupiter only a fraction of a degree away. In parts of South America, the close encounter was so close, it became an eclipse. Luis Argerich sends this photo from Buenos Aires, Argentina:

 

"I captured half a Jupiter floating next to the Moon with my telescope as the occultation was in progress," says Argerich. "It was incredible to see Jupiter disappear behind the Moon's dark limb."

Another occultation of Jupiter is less than a month away. The people of southern Australia will see it on Feb. 18th. Meanwhile, browse the photo gallery for more shots of last night's display.

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