Path: utzoo!utgpu!UIUCVMD!STORM-L Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 16:20:13 EST Reply-To: STORM-L@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU Sender: STORM-L Storms and weather related info From: Chris Novy - WA9V Subject: National Weather Summary (have a nice weekend) To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb23.164322est.57384@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: list.storm-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu ZCZC MKCNWX1 ABUS1 KWBC 232100 NATIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 3 PM CST FRI FEB 23 1990 SNOW MOVED INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST. An advisory for snow this afternoon and evening has been posted over the western half of Wisconsin. After the snow ends tonight ..skies across Wisconsin will clear for the week end... temperatures will drop...and winds will become northerly 15 and 30 MPH. High temperatures in the single numbers and strong winds will bring unpleasant wind chills. A heavy snow watch was posted for tonight and Saturday across northeast and north central Upper Michigan. A heavy snow watch for Saturday has been posted over northeastern Upper Michigan. The most recent storm crossed southwestern Lower Michigan on Thursday night...and left 6 to 10 inch snowfalls. Grand Rapids has had almost 17 inches of snow this month (16.7)...and near 78 inches of snow this winter (77.7). The average total for February is 11 inches (11.0) and 71 inches for the season (71.3). Illinois is getting ready for north winds and much colder temperatures across extreme northern and northeast portions of the state during this evening. A high wind warning has been posted for Bethel AK today. Winds gusted to 40 MPH during the morning. Rising temperatures will bring the wind chill from the 70 degrees below zero during the early morning to 55 below zero during the afternoon. A blizzard warning remained through this evening for St. Paul Island AK with wind chills to 35 below zero during the afternoon. Northwest winds 35 gusting to 45 MPH will diminish to 30 MPH overnight...but temperatures will lower and wind chills near 35 below zero will continue. The blizzard warning at cold Bay AK has expired. Winds gusted to near 50 MPH during the storm and several aircraft were stranded at cold bay because of bad weather. Snowfall during the 6 hours ending at noon included 3 inches at St. Cloud MN...2 inches at Minneapolis/St Paul MN...also 1 inch at Duluth MN...Fargo ND...Grand Forks ND...Hibbing MN...Mt Clemens MI and Niagara Falls NY. Heavier rainfall during the same 6 hours included an inch and a half at Tampa FL(1.46)...an inch at Melbourne FL(.90)...three quarters of an inch at Vero Beach FL(.74) and two thirds of an inch at Cocoa Beach FL(.68). At noon snow was falling over north central and eastern North Dakota...northern Minnesota...western Upper Michigan...northern Wisconsin...northern ohio and western New York state. Rain and occasional thunderstorms extended from south central New York state across western Pennsylvania into northern West Virginia... the central half of the Florida Peninsula...as well as scattered along the North Carolina and South Carolina coast. Temperatures at noon ranged from near 60 degrees over northern New England to near 20 degrees over the northern plains...in the 40s along the eastern slopes of the northern Rockies...in the 40s along the northern Pacific Coast...in the 60s and 70s across the southern Pacific Coast...the 60s over the Texas Gulf Coast...and the 80s over southeast Florida. Low temperature for the nation this morning was 2 degrees above zero at Gunnison CO...and Truckee CA. Portland ME reached 55 degrees during the morning to tie their high temperature record for February 23...set in 1984. Then... their temperature began to fall. Boston MA/Logan Airport/ reached 65 degrees during the early afternoon and broke their record high temperature for this date ..which was 63 degrees set in 1943. Temperatures around the nation at 2 pm CST ranged from 13 degrees at Devils Lake ND to 84 degrees at Key West FL. Harry Gordon National Severe Storms Forecast Center --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Novy - WA9V BITNET: axvsccn@uicvmc Southern Illinois Univ. Internet: axvsccn@uicvmc.aiss.uiuc.edu Morris Library - Systems Packet: wa9v@wd9ebq FAX: (618) 453-8109 Carbondale, IL 62901-6632 Phone: (618) 453-1683 or (618) 457-6149 ICBM: 37.43N 89.12W ---------------------------------------------------------------------------