February 2013 Global Weather Extremes Summary [1]

Wunderground-12 March 2013-Christopher C. Burt

February featured several notable extreme weather events including an exceptional blizzard in the U.S. Northeast, record heat in parts of Africa, southern China and Southeast Asia and a powerful tropical cyclone in southwestern Madagascar. Athens, Greece experienced a deadly flash flood.

Below are some of the month’s highlights.

NORTH AMERICA

The big event of the month in the U.S. was the extraordinary snowstorm that pounded southern New England on February 8-9. Dubbed winter storm 'Nemo’ by the Weather Channel, the blizzard was the worst to occur in Connecticut and central Long Island since the iconic Blizzard of 1888. A peak snowfall of 40” (102 cm) was measured at Hamden, Connecticut, the greatest single-storm snowfall the state has seen since 55” (140 cm) fell at Middletown on March 12-14, 1888. For more details about this historic storm see my blog on the subject posted last month [2] as well as Jeff Master’s blog on the same subject. [3]

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