A powerful early season winter storm dumped nearly two feet of snow in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina on Saturday, a day after it flooded Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive by whipping up 22-foot waves on Lake Michigan. And this storm is just getting started. By Sunday, an intense area of low pressure will be located off the coast of New England, causing heavy rain, snow and airport-snarling winds of 50 miles per hour or more from Long Island to Maine. The storm has been termed a “Manitoba Mauler” by one National Weather Service office, due to its origins in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The record early season snows in the Southeast — this was the earliest measurable snow on record in Columbia, South Carolina — were the result of an unusually intense area of cold air and atmospheric spin in the upper atmosphere, which is known to meteorologists as an upper level low. http://on.mash.to/10ILnpK http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ
Powerful Storm Brings Record Snow To Southeast Before It Slams Into New England
A powerful early season winter storm dumped nearly two feet of snow in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina on Saturday, a day after it flooded Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive by whipping up 22-foot waves on Lake Michigan. And this storm is just getting started. By Sunday, an intense area of low pressure will be located off the coast of New England, causing heavy rain, snow and airport-snarling winds of 50 miles per hour or more from Long Island to Maine. The storm has been termed a “Manitoba Mauler” by one National Weather Service office, due to its origins in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The record early season snows in the Southeast — this was the earliest measurable snow on record in Columbia, South Carolina — were the result of an unusually intense area of cold air and atmospheric spin in the upper atmosphere, which is known to meteorologists as an upper level low. http://on.mash.to/10ILnpK http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ
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