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Heavy Snow Accumulation Threatens Switzerland With Its Highest Avalanche Threat in Fifty Years
Image: Screen capture from NBC News video of April 1 avalanche in Zermatt, Switzerland.
Snow Brains is reporting that the heavy accumulation of snow in Switzerland this season is putting...
Alberta Canada Gets Late-Season Winter Rewind with Snow and Unseasonably Cold Temperatures
Image: The Weather Network
Snowfall warnings and special weather statements are in effect for parts of southern Alberta, as a wintry cold front pushes through the region. Canadian meteorologists say...
Europe Braces for Abnormal Cold and Spring Snow
The Severe Weather Europe (SWE) website is reporting that a cold wave is expected to affect most of Europe until the end of the month.
This week, a large part...
Cold Spring Storm Brings More Snow to Southern California and Sierra Nevada
NBC Los Angeles reports:
Another spring storm dumped measurable rain and mountain snow in Southern California as locals were met with yet another gloomy weekend.
The storm crept into SoCal Friday...
Nagpur India Sees Coldest April Day in 55 Years of Official Records
Graphic from Weather Underground.
Nagpur, India, the 13th largest city in the nation, experienced its coldest April day since 1969 on April 11, reports Nagpur Today.
Despite April normally being a...
Winter Is Not Quite Done with New England
It may be spring according to the calendar, but winter lingered a bit in New England, with an April storm delivering more than a foot of snow across a...
Snow Keeps Piling Up in Alaska, Anchorage on the Verge of Setting A New Snow Record
Alaska’s News Source (ANS) reported on April 8th that the latest round of snow is likely to break records for winter’s snowfall in Anchorage, where more than 130.5 inches...
European Ski Areas Seeing a Late Surge of Activity
We Love to Ski is reporting that, with growing snowpack, many ski areas in Europe and beyond are experiencing some of their best conditions of the season in early...
Newfoundland and Labrador Expecting Heavy Snow from Spring Bomb Cyclone
The Weather Network reported that a “bomb cyclone,” could result in below freezing temperatures, heavy snow, and high winds battering Newfoundland and Labrador on April 8th and April 9th.
“An...
Below Normal Cold and Snow Greets Pittsburgh Pirates Home Opener
Unusual cold and snow made for a memorable Pittsburgh Pirates’ opening home game for more reasons than just the play and the final score.
Pirates fans were greeted with temperatures...
Winter Maintains Its Grip on Portions of the United States
Spring may have sprung according to the calendar, but residents in a number of U.S. states being battered by severe winter storms might debate the point.
“The National Weather Service...
Snow and Freezing Temperatures Bring Early Bite of Winter to Parts of New Zealand
Image: screencap from NZ Met Service video
The New Zealand Herald has reported Autumn is hitting hard in parts of the country.
“Dreams of stifling summer temperatures in Hawke’s Bay may...
‘Alert Day[s]’ Snow in Wisconsin, Might Affect Brewer’s Home Opener
Kelly Slifka, a meteorologist with Channel 3000 in Madison, Wisconsin declared “Alert Day” for April 2nd and April 3rd, due to expected accumulating snow.
“Alert Day for accumulating snow from...
Spring Snowstorm Sets Milestone in Southern California Mountains
Image: Screencap from video by KABC-TV
A spring snowstorm during the last weekend of March provided significant amounts of additional snow for Southern California mountains. There was so much snow...
Rapid City Receives Spring Snow
Image: National Weather Service, Rapid City, South Dakota
Several news outlets reported that Rapid City, South Dakota received heavy snow on March 31, continuing into the early morning hours of...
Blizzard Conditions in the Upper Midwestern United States Show Winter Has Not Relinquished Its Grip
Power outages are expected across a five state region of the northern U.S. plains as blizzard conditions strike Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota, CNN reported on March...
Mongolia’s Brutal Winter Claims Nearly 5 million Animals
Mongolian herders have lost more than 4.7 million head of livestock, sheep, goats, cattle, horses, and camels, to the brutal conditions of extreme cold, heavy snow, and ice this...
Late Winter/Early Spring Blizzards Deliver Consecutive Above Average Snowpack Years in California
Newsweek reports that an ongoing round of storms are delivering enough snow to California’s mountains to establish conditions not seen in the past 14 years, back-to-back seasons of above...
Spring Looking More Like Winter in Wisconsin and Illinois
Spring got off to a slow start in Wisconsin and Illinois as a cold front blew through the western Great Lakes region dumping snow.
“A Winter Weather Advisory is in...
Fall Arrives a Bit Early in Australia
Even before summer officially ended, News.com.au reported that a strong cold front altered Australia’s weather.
“Meteorologists have warned a weather change could come with 'quite a punch' on Wednesday ...
Great Lakes States Experience Late-Season Lake Effect Snow
Image from NWS, Grand Rapids, MI
Forecasts from the National Weather Service (NWS) say an “Arctic clipper” type storm is bringing lake effect snow to parts of the Great Lakes...
Freeze Warnings Issued in 11 States From Texas to North Carolina, Northeast and Great Lakes to Get Spring Snow
Image from weather.gov
Fox weather writes:
March is typically recognized as the battle between winter and spring, and the arrival of a new workweek has left nearly 170 million people...
March Snow Sets Seasonal Record for Park City, Utah
Late February and early March brought record setting snow to Park City, Utah, according to the Park Record.
“There may never be another epic ski season like last year, but...
Storm Buries Colorado in Snow, Drops ‘Gorilla Hail’
A late winter storm dropped heavy snow in Colorado and also delivered what the press described as “Gorilla Hail,” in Oklahoma.
CNN reports that a powerful late winter storm dumped...
Record Snowfall Shuts Down Interstate 80 in the Midwest
Last week, the National Weather Service (NWS) in North Platte, NE made a forecast for a significant spring snowstorm, saying:
A springtime storm system will cross the Great Plains Wednesday...