Mean Weather Lots of Places

We have all seen the awesome TV coverage of almost unheard of flash flooding in the SW USA this week. In and around L.A. and San Diego and even Las Vegas. Deep mud flow destroyed a number of homes and the mud was several feet deep inside the houses.

Here we go looking around the nation at some trouble spots. We will do this in incomplere sentences to save space and reading time.

* Minneapolis-St. Paul 6 new inches of snow today…33 inches so far in December, breaking a record that had stood since 1969.

* 29 inches of snow now on the ground at Rochester, Minn., and 23 inches at LaCross, Wisc.

* 46% of the Lower 48 now under a blanket of snow.

* Recent big storms has dumped tons of snow in the West, as of today 86 inches on the ground at the Wolfe Creek Ski area in Southern Colorado.

* 73 inches of new snow in last 6 days at Coal Bank Pass, Colo. (San Juan Mountains)

* 6-day total new new snow brings the total to 84 inches at Brighton Crest in the Utah Wasatch Mountains south of I-80.

* 11 below zero was the coldest this morning in the Lower 48 at Chinook, Mont.

* 53 below zero Fort Yukon, Alaska as more arctic air builds in the area

* Fairbanks this December has averaged 16 degrees colder than average, The “warmest” day all month was a high of 14.

* 45 below zero this morning at Woodsmoke/North Pole and Clear Sky, Alaska. It was 39 below at Eagle and 40 below at Chicken

* In some of the west and central mountains of Colorado, as much as 100 inches of new snow last six days

* 10 inches of new snow today at Mason City, Iowa brought the total to 18 inches on the ground.

* By 7:30 tonight, sleet was reported in at least four counties in Middle Tennessee.

* NWS/Nashville, in a special statement, expects “Significant snow accumulations” tonight through noon on Christmas Day across parts of Middle Tennessee, including Clarksville, Brentwood and Columbia, just to name a few. Up to 3 inches higher elevations

* Knoxville expecting 3 inches through tomorrow night

* Gatlinburg will get at least 4 inches of fresh snow

* The low pressure area which is part of this, will turn eastward and the NE along the Atlantic Coast and may possibly develop into a dreaded N’easter

No end to the foul weather. No rest for the wary. Surely the total damage in Southern California will run into the $Billions.

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