Sunny and hot here in Winnipeg! Wade Glew Oh Boy C&C 33 MKII
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 13:52 Randy Stafford via CnC-List, < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Yesterday in eastern Colorado we had a bomb cyclone, over land, at about > 38 degrees north latitude. All-time records were set for lowest > atmospheric pressure ever recorded in several locations. The center of the > low was at about 37.5 degrees north latitude, 102 degrees west longitude, > at Manter, Kansas just east of the Colorado border. Category 2 > hurricane-strength winds were recorded in northeast Colorado while snow was > falling, creating a snowicane. The system consisted of a cold air mass > moving southeast from Canada, swirling with moist warm air moving up from > the Gulf of Mexico. Of course that created nasty blizzard conditions in > the northwest quadrant of the cyclone over the Colorado plains including > the Denver metropolitan area. All ground and air travel in eastern > Colorado was shut down and is just recovering today. This was a rare > meteorological event; I’ve never seen anything like it in my lifetime here. > > I’ve uploaded a screenshot of http://hint.fm/wind/ taken at about 11:00 > MDT last night to > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1biBx_8VUDGuU_GtEgmYIr1nWGhIDFGGq which > clearly shows the counter-clockwise rotation in the national wind pattern. > This article > https://weather.com/safety/winter/news/2019-03-13-bomb-cyclone-winter-storm-ulmer > describes > the details of the bomb cyclone. > > Time to go remove snow from by boat again. I’m so done with this winter > already. Good thing I’m doing a BVI charter in two weeks :) > > Cheers, > Randy Stafford > S/V Grenadine > C&C 30-1 #7 > Ken Caryl, CO > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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