23 Kislev 5778
Ten inches of snow per hour in Alaska at the same time that the Jet Stream dived to Mexico and let Arctic air bring early and unprecedented snow to US southern states?
"Alaska is collecting extreme weather events in the last weeks. After a bombogenesis brought hurricane-like winds to the Bering Sea, now a completely crazy 10 inches of snow per hour was reported at Thompson Pass near Valdez, Alaska on Wednesday, December 6, 2017." (Source)
"A swath of high-impact snowfall—in some places, among the heaviest ever observed—made its way from South Texas to Atlanta on Friday, en route to the big cities of the Northeast U.S."
"...very mild, dry air continues to blow offshore across coastal California, stoking the fire threat."
"...Last month was the 19th driest November in U.S. records dating back to 1895."
Texas goes from unprecedented flood to drought in just 3 months
During the last week of August, Hurricane Harvey stalled over the Houston, Texas area, dumping more than 20 inches of rain in seven days over an area the size of West Virginia; Harvey’s 60 inches of rain near Port Arthur were the greatest on record for any storm in U.S. recorded history.
Despite this unprecedented deluge, portions of the region that received 20+ inches of rain are now in drought,....
Extremely dry air helping to fuel SoCal fires
The dry air masses sweeping across the country have pushed all the way to the West Coast, leading to extremely low amounts of moisture in the atmosphere.
... (it was 95°F in Los Angeles the week of Thanksgiving!), and that definitely set the stage for these late-season Santa Ana winds to drive such destructive fires in December.”
Unusual snowfall blankets the landscape from the Rio Grande Valley to New Orleans
(Source)
Snowstorm in Turkey drops 1 meter in 12 hours cutting off 45 villages
Heaviest snowfall in four years brings travel chaos to UK
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