Category Snowdrift Alert

Powerful Winter Storm Blankets Southern California Mountains With Snow — 1st February 2021

Concise Takeaway A powerful winter storm swept across Southern California on 1st February 2021, delivering heavy snowfall to mountain regions, disrupting travel, and creating hazardous conditions on major passes. The event marked one of the strongest early‑February storms of the…

Major Snow Storm Slams the Northeast, USA, Crippling Air Travel and Closing the Subway

A powerful winter storm pummeled much of the Northeastern United States on Monday, canceling flights, causing outdoor subway closures and disrupting travel for millions of people along the I-95 corridor. In New York City, a forecast of up to two…

The Brrrrrrritish Isles: Snow-coated Britain wakes to fresh warning of ice and freezing fog after England suffers COLDEST night of winter so far with -11.1C low

Britain today awoke to a fresh warning of ice and freezing fog after England suffered its coldest night of the winter so far, with bracing lows of -11.1C recorded in the North. Yellow weather warnings remained in place for ice…

Madrid Paralysed’ by Heavy Snow Storms as Roads shut and Madrid Airport forced to Suspend Operations

Madrid Paralysed’ by Heavy Snow Storms as Roads shut and Madrid Airport forced to Suspend Operations. The very heavy snow fall that was forecast by AEMET, the Spanish meteorological service, has tonight struck Spain’s capital Madrid. Storm Filomena has kept…

Spain records lowest temperature ever at -34C coupled with heavy snow

Heavy snow and icy winds blasted Spain as temperatures plumetted to -34.1C, the lowest ever recorded on the Iberian peninsula, the State Meterololgical Agency said on Wednesday. The chilling temperature was recorded at Clot del Tuc de la Llanca in…