Saturday 31 January 2015

what are going in north west america ICE storm

the north west america was warned by the storm with fulll ice:
The Storm Track image the forecast snowfall over the next 24 hours. Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice pwith full icearticles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure. The Mshows ETAR code for snow is SN
The winter storm was associated with the November 2014 North American cold wave. On November 13, an extratropical disturbance developed just off the shore of southern Oregon, at the end of an occluded front. Early on November 14, the system fully moved ashore in the Pacific Northwest, and began bringing snowfall to the region.The winter storm quickly moved southeastward and then northeastward, triggering large amounts of lake-effect snow near the Great Lakes beginning on Novemmber 16.On November 16, Lake Erie had a water temperature of 48 °F (9 °C). On November 17, the system reached New England, triggering large amounts of lake-effect snow there as well. The air crossing over the lake by the evening of November 17 was −14 °C (7 °F) at 850 hectopascals at the eastern end of the lake and even colder at its western end; this lapse rate was nearly double that of the dry adiabatic lapse rate and resulted in a very unstable atmosphere at the lower levelsThe surface and lower-level winds were also well-aligned with the fetch of Lake Erie, favoring the formation of a long, intense band of lake-effect snow, and varied little over the next several days, keeping the band in place over the same areas for an extended period. The event was briefly interrupted by a low-pressure system with general snowfall passing through on November 20before reverting to the same synoptic setup as before
High pressure and warmer temperatures moved into the area beginning on November 21, which caused the storm to exit the East Coast, ending the lake-effect snow. The system then quickly began moving northeastward. During the next couple of days, the winter storm eventually intensified reaching a minimum low pressure of 961 mb (28.38 inHg) on November 23. Later on November 23, the system slowly began to weaken.[citation needed] On November 24, the storm decayed into a disorganized 986 mbar system, after moving just east of southern Greenland On November 26, 2014, the weakened winter storm was absorbed by another neighboring system to the northwest of Iceland

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