Ice Station Housman

On this year's episode, Becky, Jimmy, and Joel are all joined once again by Dan to talk about the upcoming snow storm due to arrive this week. They also discuss lobster wind, bidets, and toilet paper habits.

Accuweather - Major winter storm could unload 2 feet of snow or more in places

Capital Weather Gang - D.C. region faces heavy snow, ice and flooding Wednesday from major Mid-Atlantic storm

On this week's show, Jimmy is on a work trip so Becky and Joel are joined by Mihn Phan and Castle Williams from the WeatherHype podcast.

Weather Hype - http://www.weatherhypepodcast.com/

National Weather Podcast Month - https://weatherpodcastmonth.com

Pew Research Center - For Local News, Americans Embrace Digital but Still Want Strong Community Connection

NOAA Storm Surge Overview - https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/

Impact 360 Alliance - https://impact360alliance.org

Music by dodie - "There's A Storm Coming Tonight"

On this week's episode, Joel, Jimmy, and Becky talk about the bomb cyclone current in progress in the midwest known as Ulmer.

National Weather Podcast Month #NWPM

• Joel was a guest on Weather Brains Episode 685

80 MPH gust in Amarillo TX blows over a tractor-trailer truck. And another one.

Colorado Springs wind gust up to 97 MPH.

Train Derailment near Logan, NM.

Annotated map explaining the formation of the bomb cyclone.

Dust showing up on GOES-17 blowing up from eastern Texas.

On this week's episode, Becky's husband Dan DePodwin joins us to discuss historical cold snaps like the one we just experienced. 

Devastation of the FL Citrus Crop in 1894/1895

https://medium.com/florida-history/the-great-freezes-1894-95-and-the-collapse-of-the-florida-orange-industry-7442e5d75337

December 29 1984 (18 Orlando; 24 West Palm)

1899 Cold Snap

http://appalachianmagazine.com/2017/01/17/the-coldest-day-in-american-history/

Official Monthly Weather Review from the Weather Bureau https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/Monthly-Weather-Review-February-1899.pdf

• February 13th
• TLH -2F w/snow + capitol snowball fights
• MIA sub 30 (29) - only recorded a lower temperature twice
• Lexington, VA 70”; only a few hours drive away :)
• Port of NO completely frozen causing significant economical challenges
• Partially responsible for recession in June to 1901
• Virginia (6th coldest February on record)
• -3 Richmond
• -12 Alexandria
• Frost in Cuba

1936 Cold and Heat

February 1936 - Coldest Feb on record, narrowingly beating 1899.

The average temperature in Devils Lake for a five-week period ending Feb. 21, 1936 was -21. McIntosh, S.D., hit -58, Jordan, Mont. -60 and Sceptre, Sask., -63.

The Minot Daily News reported on Feb. 17, 1936, that “the cold spell that has brought sub-zero weather for 46 days will hold sway” for a few more days. According to the NWS Minot averaged 32 degrees below normal throughout February 1936. Relief came in the form of temperatures ranging from -10 to -20, or 50 to 60 degrees less than what the Minot area has been experiencing this winter.

121 degree record experienced in ND on July 6 (Steele, ND). - http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2016/02/1936-coldest-winter-ever/

Followed by one of the most extreme summers on record.

• 5000 deaths
• Some low temps above 90
• 100 degrees on 8 consecutive days at Midway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave

https://blog.genealogybank.com/were-having-a-heat-wave-your-ancestors-miserable-summer-of-1936.html

1985 Cold Wave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_1985_cold_wave

Coldest morning (-18) in Pittsburgh since 1899.

1986 Challenger Disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_wave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

On this week's show we discuss tornados throughout the year in 2018. Ian Livingston and Katie Wheatley join Becky, Jimmy, and Joel to review the overall muted tornado season. 

Tri-state Tornado

2018 will be the first year with no violent tornadoes in the United States

Rare December tornado rips into homes in Seattle area

The biggest tornado events of 2018

An overview of the modern tornado record, 1950 through present (maps)

Ian & Katie's website: USTornadoes.com

Storm Prediction Center

Ian's Twitter: @islivingston

Katie's Twitter: @mapgirl18

Its the beginning of Season Two! On this week's show we discuss last winter vs this winter snow total predictions as well as talk about another El Nino, the "polar vortex", the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

Last winter's prediction results.

The North Atlantic Oscillation

Global Patterns: Arctic & North Atlantic Oscillations

FiveThirtyEight Forecasts The National Dog Show

This year's snow predictions:

• Jimmy @ Richmond Airport: 37 inches
• Becky @ Penn State U: 42 inches
• Joel @ Dulles Airport: 46 inches

Current Arctic Oscillation Status

Current North Atlantic Oscillation Status

This week on the show the gang talks about the recent Nor'easters and what causes them.

Show predictions before Winter:

• Joel:  25" for Dulles
• Becky: 43" for State College
• Jimmy:  8" for Richmond Airport

Actual measured snowfall:

• Dulles: 11.8”
• State College: 14.9”
• Richmond: 12.4”

Jimmy guessed the amount closest to actual, so he wins.

Wikipedia: Nor'easter

Why Are There Suddenly So Many Nor'Easters?

Accuweather: What is a Nor'easter?

Dakota Smith, aka @weatherdak's The Four Nor'easters of March GIF.

This week's music if the Revival March by John Phillips Sousa.

March is National Weather Podcast month! There are a lot of other great weather podcasts participating in this program that we want you to check out as well. Please go to weatherpodcastmonth.com to check them out.

On this week's show, Becky, Jimmy, and Joel talk about the upcoming cold weather pattern that is going to affect most of the US for the next couple weeks, how we did for snowfall predictions from last winter, and our predictions for the upcoming winter.

Winter Weather Predicitons:

• NOAA
• Accuweather
• Wunderground
• The Weather Channel
• Capital Weather Gang
• Climate.gov
• The Farmer's Bullshitbook Almanac

November La Nina Update

Ryan Maue's GFS GIF

NOAA's Winter Outlook

Snow Predictions:

Joel:  25" for Dulles
Becky: 43" for State College
Jimmy:  8" for Richmond Airport

On this week's episode, Becky, Jimmy and Joel cover Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath as well as Hurricane Irma, the impact the storm has had so far and what is expected to come.

Becky's Irma Twitter List

Beck's Facebook Stormblog

• The forgotten but freakish damage from Hurricane Harvey’s eyewall in Rockport, Tex.

• Harvey marks the most extreme rain event in U.S. history

• Texas flood disaster: Harvey has unloaded 9 trillion gallons of water

• The Houston Flooding Pushed the Earth's Crust Down 2 Centimeters

• http://www.ustornadoes.com/2017/08/30/hurricane-harveys-tornado-action/

• Global Giving Harvey Relief

• Forecasts for Harvey were excellent but show where predictions can improve

• Incredible meteorological imagery from Hurricane Harvey

• 2017/08/24 - Harvey restrengthens into a Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico - Geocolor - HTML5 Loop

• 2017/08/25 - 30-second imagery showing powerful Hurricane Harvey approach the Texas Coast - Band 2 Visible - HTML5 Loop

• 2017/08/28 - Band 13 IR Summary of Harvey from 8/25 to 8/28 - tremendous amounts of rain in southeast Texas - HTML5 Loop

• 2017/08/31 - Brown flood waters streaming from Galveston Bay into the Gulf - Geocolor - HTML5 Loop

• NHC Irma Track

• Category 5 Irma stays on perilous path toward Florida; hurricane watch issued

• Hot Water Ahead for Hurricane Irma

• Irma vs Andrew - https://twitter.com/JoelNihlean/status/905845846687789058/photo/1

• How to prepare for Hurricane Irma

• The Storm Reaches Puerto Rico: ‘There Is Nothing Like This

• GOES-16 vs GOES-13

• A GOES-16 Look at the Ferocious Hurricane Irma

• NASA SPoRT Twitter Account

Post Image

Image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Astronaut Randy Bresnik took this photo of Tropical Storm Harvey from the International Space Station on Aug. 28 at 1:27 p.m. CDT.

Music

Outro music is "Muddy Water" by The Seldom Scene.

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On this week's episode, our dynamic trio cover a number of topics including NASA's Juno probe flyby of Jupiter, recent flash flooding, weather twitter, a rogue ice berg, and the upcoming solar eclipse.

Music: This week's outro music was "I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet" by Carol King.

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One of the biggest icebergs in recorded history just broke loose from Antarctica

Arizona flash flood sweeps away family relaxing in swimming hole, killing 9

Juno’s Great Red Spot pics are amazing! Here are some fun facts about Jupiter’s giant storm.

Map of totality path.