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DAILY WEATHER SUMMARY
Tuesday, 15 January 2002
The electronic delivery of current weather narratives for the
Spring 2002 Online Weather Studies Course will begin on Monday,
21 January 2002. This Online Weather Summary contains the Historical
Weather Events for this date. Current weather data are available
on the homepage. If you are looking for an alternative description
of daily weather, you could try:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/ wlead.htm
Welcome to the attendees at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the
American Meteorological Society and the 11th Symposium on Education
in Orlando, FL.
From the files of the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City,
MO and Intellicast
- ...1780...New York Harbor froze over completely during this
famous hard winter. The harbor was sealed for 5 weeks. The heaviest
of cannons were able to cross the ice. (Intellicast)
- ...1852...Between 15 January and 24 February a total of 1378
railroad cars were drawn by horses across the frozen Susquehanna
River on ice bridge to engines waiting at Havre De Grace, MD.
(The Weather Channel)
- ...1932...Up to two inches of snow whitened the Los Angeles
basin of California. The Los Angeles Civic Center reported an
inch of snow, and even the beaches of Santa Monica were whitened
with snow, in what proved to be a record snowstorm for Los Angeles.
(David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
- ...1952...A six day snowstorm was in progress in the western
U.S. The storm produced 44 inches of snow at Marlette Lake, NV,
52 inches at Sun Valley, ID, and 149 inches at Tahoe, CA, establishing
single storm records for each of those three states. In addition,
24 hour snowfall totals of 22 inches at the University of Nevada,
and 26 inches at Arco, ID, established records for those two states.
,The streamliner, City of San Francisco was snowbound in
the Sierra Nevada Range, near Donner Summit. (David Ludlum)
- ...1987...A powerful storm over the Southern Plateau and the
Southern Rockies produced 24 inches of snow at Colorado Springs,
CO, including 22 inches in 24 hours, a January record. High winds
in the southwestern U.S. gusted to 65 mph in the Yosemite Valley
of California. This vicious storm belted most of New Mexico with
as much 4 feet of snow. The storm lasted until the 18th and several
counties were declared disaster areas. Travel in Albuquerque was
brought to a standstill from blizzard conditions.(National Weather
Summary) (Storm Data)
- ...1988...A small storm over the Atlantic Ocean produced heavy
snow along the coast of North Carolina. The five inch total at
Wilmington, NC was their third highest for any storm in January
in 117 years of records. (National Weather Summary)
- ...1989...A storm in the northwestern U.S. produced up to
14 inches of snow in the Cascade Mountain Range. Light snow in
the north central U.S. was just enough to push the snowfall total
for January at Fargo, ND past their previous all-time monthly
record of 30.7 inches, bringing the season total to 57.2 inches.
The previous record for most snow within a month occurred back
in 1896, when 30.4 inches fell. (Intellicast)
- ...1990...While one Pacific storm crossed the Central Rockies,
another approached the west coast. The northern mountains of Utah
were buried under 17 to 35 inches of snow while the mountains
of southern Utah received another 12 to 16 inches. Eighteen cities
in the central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the
date as readings warmed into the 50s and 60s. Wichita, KS reported
a record high of 68 degrees. (National Weather Summary) (Storm
Data)
- ...1995...Williston, ND recorded 12.6 inches of snow in 24
hours for its greatest 24 hour snowfall on record. (Intellicast)
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Prepared by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D., email hopkins@meteor.wisc.edu
© Copyright, 2002, The American Meteorological Society.