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10 Weirdest Things About March 2012 Weather
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This was a very interesting report that i thought i would share with those that might have not seen it yet
#10: Heaviest late-season snow on March 20-21, as we officially ushered in spring, Eugene, Ore. was blanketed in 6-10" of snow heaviest snowstorm for so late in the season
#9: A Massive, Rapid Snowmelt On March 4, Marquette, Mich. had 47" of snow on the ground. The first 5 days of March featured over 2 feet of snow. By the morning of March 19, that entire snowcover was gone; 47" melted in 15 days!
#8: 80s...in Canada...in March! 80+ heat as far N as Ottawa...Timmins, Ontario...& Fredericton, New Brunswick.
#7: All-Time March Heat ... Several Days in a Row! monthly record high, several days in a row? In a word...unreal!
#6: Atlanta Pollen Count Tops 9,000 over 6 times the "extreme" criteria threshold!
#5: Michigan, Minnesota Tornadoes ... in March first confirmed tornado north of Interstate 96 in Lower Michigan before March 20 second earliest Minnesota tornado on record
#4: Record Hailstone...in "Paradise" measuring 4.25" in length, 2" wide and 2.25" tall, was a record-smashing hailstone for Hawaii.
#3: Chicago Record Streak set a record for most 80-degree days in March (7), including an off-the-charts 5 straight 80-degree days!
#2: International Falls: The Melting Icebox An almost two-week stretch of record warmth...along the Canadian border....in March! 40 degrees above the day's average high
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#1: Thousands of Daily Record Highs! over 6,000 daily record highs tied or broken from Mar. 1-22!
"To say March 2012 has been weird...strange...bizarre weatherwise has been, frankly, a gross understatement."
Read full report here- [link to www.weather.com]
Map of Heat Record's [link to mapcenter.hamweather.com]
Arizona Snow Falls by the Foot Central and eastern Arizona had a wild, wintry weekend, as a system dumped as much as two feet of snow in the Flagstaff and Prescott areas [link to www.weather.com]
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