Tornadoes Hit Mississippi and Alabama Hard Today

With 13 confirmed tornadoes, some violent and heavily damaging, it will be a relief to know that no severe weather is predicted across Canada or the USA for the next 4 to 8 days at least. The monthly full moon cycle has wiped up some powerful stuff over the past few days. 5 injuries have been reported in today's tornadoes already and 15 fatalities plus nearly a million without power due to the snow storm that hit the north east Atlantic coast some calling it "Snow Storm Nemo". States of Mississippi and Alabama are still under tornado watches but the worst seems to have passed.

Here is one of many tornado videos posted today:

Great Raw Footage From Storm Nemo Community

Via Google Plus Community: Storm Nemo 

+ Kimberly Allen
"Snow plow driver so stuck he has to tell my neighbor who is watching from the house and wants to help but can't as there's to much snow to walk to the truck so snow plow driver gets snowblower from the back of the truck to make a path to talk to neighbor"


"Finally a happy ending as wife and family dog come to get snow plow driver out of ditch.  I was concerned for a bit thinking she was stuck too but all was well."

Super Storm Nemo Monster Waves

Incredible Deep Snow Videos From Snowstorm Nemo

SUPER DEEP SNOW IN MAINE  {Language Warning}

Nemo storm blizzard no where to go / no roads

(New Haven county southern Connecticut): 

Snow Maze

Historic Nemo 34 Inches Of Snow

Snow Bound in Maine

North American Snow Cover Shifts East

This 30 day java powered image loop of snow cover data over the past 30 days, distinctly shows Montana and southern Alberta drying up as the north-eastern American states begin to get fully covered by snow:

Animation of North American snow cover for the past month









Here on the Canadian Prairies, the depth of snow is shown in this graphic:

        As of 01/02/13, snow depth appears to be greatest in a line from Estevan to Edmonton, east central Alberta, central and south east Saskatchewan. Surprisingly, the data for around the cities of Regina and Saskatoon seem to be opposite of what appears on the map. The city of Regina clearly has much more snow than Metro Saskatoon, yet the graphic suggests north west of Saskatoon has the largest snow depth. This is always a very important detail to factor in when predicting severe weather in the spring and summer as it can point out areas of major pooling of ground water below the surface than will not show up in computer meteorological forecast models. I'll be checking this data as it becomes available, likely once a month until full melt and spring flooding begins.

 Jared Mysko


 Images provided by Canadian Cryospheric Information Network - University of Waterloo and www.polardata.ca Credit: A. Silis, Environment Canada, 2013.

The Next Big One: Winter Storm "Nemo"

As the northern wing of "Winter Storm Nemo" hits Regina, Saskatchewan, one forecast model is suggesting up to 60 inches of snow for Boston beginning on Friday! So far, "Winter Storm Nemo" has dumped nearly 3 flakes of snow in Regina, much less than the originally forecast 2 to 6 cm. Seriously though, radar indicates that a few more flake will fall here tonight. It sounds a bit silly to be trying to warn people about an impeding disaster when The Weather Channel names the storm after a Disney character. Naming storms after Disney characters seems to be a guaranteed fail for storm enthusiasts. #Nemo Alternatively, storms could be named by way of auctioning to prospective companies and the funds collected given to residents affected. Not to replace government disaster assistance funding but to immediately lend relief #StormNamingAuction For example (with a bit of tongue and cheek): "Tropical Storm McDonald's 100% Pure Beef is going to hit but everyone gets free cheeseburgers after :D Save all of that for the next storm because this is a serious situation setting up for the east coast Friday and Saturday. One model suggests 50 inches of snow for Boston and anywhere between Toronto, Montreal and Boston will see this massive system come together. The Alberta clipper currently over southern Saskatchewan is expected to merge with another system from the south to drop record amounts of snow over Michigan, southern Ontario, Quebec, New England and New Brunswick. The city of New York and parts south should miss the bulk of snowfall as precipitation turns to rain. Naming this winter storm "Nemo" has certainly got people talking about it, which is a good thing, however it may change the way we think of poor little Nemo forever, some may wish they never did find Nemo. :p Jared Mysko

Regina Snowstorm - January 10-11, 2013

Here a playlist of video footage of the snowstorm that hit Regina this week: Heavy snowfall warnings were upgraded to winter storm warnings for Regina and both Moose Jaw and Winnipeg got Blizzard Warnings on January 10th as it became clear that a major storm was beginning to affect the prairie provinces. After a foot or 30cm of snow fell, not including totals much higher in drifts, extreme temperatures dropped to -29C on Saturday, January 12 with the windchill reaching -40C in the city of Regina.