Sunday, December 22, 2013

The storms aren't local anymore. They are so expansive they have names.

December 22, 2013
15:30:18Z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite of north and west hemisphere. (click here for 12 hour loop)

December 22, 2013
15:15 gmt
The Weather Channel Current Temperature Map

"State by State Impacts" (of Gemini click here)

December 22, 2013
1045 AM EST
Associated Press


Saturday's severe weather outbreak, which swept across the central and southern U.S., brought tornadoes and wind gusts that ripped roofs from barns and hurled trees into power lines, officials said. At least two people were killed.
The threat for severe weather will lessen on Sunday, but there will still be damaging wind gusts from the eastern Gulf Coast region to the Mid-Atlantic states. Additionally, flood watches have been announced from Georgia to Virginia.
"This storm has summer-like amounts of Gulf moisture and winter-like atmospheric dynamics," said weather.com meteorologist Nick Wiltgen. "The combination has wrung out extraordinary amounts of rainfall – 3 to 10 inches Saturday alone – over a very large area. We'll be watching rivers rise for days as all this water runs off."...
Well said.

What does flooding look like when freezing temperatures arrive?

Saturday December 21, 2013 GouverneurNY 
Photographer states: Sleet and freezing rain forecast until Sunday pm.