Wednesday, November 19, 2014

How would you like to be buried in 5 FEET of snow?

This cold has been to the extreme. In fact, on November 19th, The U.S. experienced it's coldest morning on record since 1976! Tulsa also set a new record low of 14 degrees! The previous record was 19 set back in 1951.

We also saw some wintry precipitation this past weekend! Here's some of the totals from the Tulsa National Weather service office: 


If you'd like to see more snow, then I'd advise you to move to Buffalo, NY area! So far they have received around 5 FEET 5 inches! It's incredible! Why are they seeing this? It's called lake effect snow. How does it work? Here's a graphic explaining what is going on: 



Photo Credit: NOAA


Basically, You have cold air moving over warm water. that creates the clouds and then eventually causes the snow. It's a very rare event. The thing about lake affect snow is that one place could see 5 feet, where as 1 mile away could see a foot. Lancaster, NY has gotten around 5' of snow whereas the Buffalo airport got less than 5". Big deal? They are 6 miles away from each other. 



Here's an incredible time-lapse video from Jason Holler & Joseph DeBenedictis of it happening. Notice how it is training in one area the entire time:




The result is this: 
















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