A winter scene in SE Alaska

A winter scene in SE Alaska

Tour of the Quad Cities Weather Service Forecast Office

The National Weather Service Quad Cities Forecast Office. The last major snow had fallen on February 6 but sub-freezing weather for the next two weeks assured a significant amount of snow stayed on the ground.

Squally weather near midnight on the Yukon River.

Tom (last name ?) launches a weather balloon during an open house.

Flooded fields in Indiana outside of Sullivan

A brimful Wabash River - at the border between Indiana and Illinois

A Missouri River Bridge at Boonville

Smoke from wildfires in Arizona puts a graze haze over the Kansas-Colorado border area.

A hillside of beetle-killed pine in the Cameron Pass area of Colorado. The beetle are proliferating because of warmer than average winter temperatures that do not kill off the larvae, a direct effect of climate change.

A thunderstorm in the distance close to the Wyoming state line between Gould, Colorado, and Riverside, Wyoming.

The little whimpy snow that followed the December 19-incher and preceded Snowmageddon only dropped 4-6 inches across the Washington region.

Snowmageddon: 17.8 inches at Reagan, 25 inches at Baltimore-Washington, and 32.4 inches at Dulles Airport. By contrast, Chicago's biggest snowstorm on January 26-27, 1967, produced 23.0 inches of snow while Washington, D.C., has had 4 storms during the same time period producing over 23 inches of snow.

Snowmageddon: 17.8 inches at Reagan, 25 inches at Baltimore-Washington, and 32.4 inches at Dulles Airport. By contrast, Chicago's biggest snowstorm on January 26-27, 1967, produced 23.0 inches of snow while Washington, D.C., has had 4 storms during the same time period producing over 23 inches of snow.

Snowmageddon: 17.8 inches at Reagan, 25 inches at Baltimore-Washington, and 32.4 inches at Dulles Airport. By contrast, Chicago's biggest snowstorm on January 26-27, 1967, produced 23.0 inches of snow while Washington, D.C., has had 4 storms during the same time period producing over 23 inches of snow.

Snowmageddon: 17.8 inches at Reagan, 25 inches at Baltimore-Washington, and 32.4 inches at Dulles Airport. By contrast, Chicago's biggest snowstorm on January 26-27, 1967, produced 23.0 inches of snow while Washington, D.C., has had 4 storms during the same time period producing over 23 inches of snow.

Two weeks after Snowmageddon there is still much snow on the ground. However, now vehicles are recognizable as such.

Following record totals of snow in February 2010, a trip to the West Virginia mountains.

Following record totals of snow in February 2010, a trip to the West Virginia mountains.

Following record totals of snow in February 2010, a trip to the West Virginia mountains.

Following record totals of snow in February 2010, a trip to the West Virginia mountains.

Following record totals of snow in February 2010, a trip to the West Virginia mountains.

Following record totals of snow in February 2010, a trip to the West Virginia mountains.

Following record totals of snow in February 2010, a trip to the West Virginia mountains.

Following record totals of snow in February 2010, a trip to the West Virginia mountains.

Yikes! 100 degrees

Ominous wall cloud portending possible violent weather.

Sunset at sea

Mail transportation, not in Venice, Italy but Waterbury, Vt.

Becket submerged

Becket post office

What happened at Barnet, Vt.

Post office Montpelier - Mail early and often. Apparently a joke as the post office and town are flooded.

Short, steep grade. Central Vermont Railroad, Montpelier Junction. Another joke as the railbed has been undercut by flood waters.

Dull traffic period through covered bridge at East Charleston, Vt.

On the road to Barton, Vt.

On the streets of Barton, Vt.

Cement bridge partially dissolved in the flood. Enosburg Falls, Vt.

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico

Low lying fair weather cumulus and upper level altocumulus reflecting off a glassy smooth Gulf of Mexico

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico

Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico